I went back to the farmers market over the weekendand saw some beautiful blue food.
Locally grown blueberries
And these blue baby artichokes just spoke to me.
Something about the teal plastic baskets, against the purple “tablecloth” with the blue artichokes in the basket, and the way the lattices of the plastic basket resemble the intricate folds of the artichoke tips, I just loved the layers of composition. <—How’s that for over-analyzing?
But that’s how my brain and eyes see things. And as a budding photographer, I try to see things even more so like that.
I think there’s a photo in almost anything. And nature and food are always a great source of inspiration.
And although not technically blue, plums are pretty and in season.
And grapes are great to crunch on.
And they’re even better when they’re frozen. Mmm, good. It’s the simple things.
And in honor of Blue (and purple) Food, how about trying:
Microwave Blueberry Banana Oat Cakes
Ginger Roasted Tri-Color Potatoes
Vegan Gluten Free Blueberry Streusel Muffins
Channel your inner Rainbow Recipe Eating and try some blue and purple food. Or any other color.
Like Brown and White.
Thanks for the compliments on my Magic Eight Bars from my last post. My new twist on Seven Layer Bars and yes, they are pretty magical. If you’ve never tried Seven Layer Bars/Magic Bars, you should try them. Or my version with white chocolate chips and Heath Bar bits rather than nuts.
That’s the image that both FoodGawker and Tasteologie accepted. I actually liked other images better, but that’s what they liked. Go figure.
Questions:
1. What was the last blue or purple food you ate?
Grapes, blueberries, and blackberries for me.
2. Did you celebrate Father’s Day Weekend? Best thing you ate or did over the weekend?
We celebrated but very low key. Scott had to work much of the day Saturday, and I worked both Saturday and Sunday but we squeezed in some family time which was great.
And he enjoyed the gift Skylar made for him.
The best things about my weekend were time in the kitchen to bake, eating Magic Eight Bars, making photos and playing with my camera, and being outside.
And of course being with Skylar!
I ate a fig….definitely purple.
Father’s day was low key for me—work, and visiting three separate parts of my family. Ended up eating lunch by the lake with my mom to celebrate my sister’s birthday/father’s day. A good reminder to relax once in a while!
Beautiful photos Averie!
I ate blackberries fresh from my garden this weekend.
No dad’s day here– we are a 2 mama household (I claim mother’s day and my partner gets her “own” special day every August) with 3 kiddos but we definitely enjoyed a nice relaxing weekend. Your pictures make me wish we had hit up our farmer’s market though!
Blue is my favorite color! And I ate enough blueberries last night to pretty much turn blue :P
Great photos, especially the artichoke one!
I love those pictures of the artichokes! Seriously – so pretty!
I cannot even remember the last blue food I ate! There are growing some blackberries in our garden though, so those will be next ;)
Love your photos from the blueberries and artichokes! I think your photography improves day by day.
I’m drinking a blue smoothie right now. Blueberries! Those baby artichokes look delicious. I want to find some now and stuff them!
I LOVE blackberries … and black raspberries (does that qualify as blue?). I didn’t do anything specific for Father’s Day, but did get to have a wonderful talk with my dad and tell him what a great father he’s been.
Wow, Skylar’s growing up!
I fished out like 10 comments from you that had gone into my spam last week…so sorry, but you’re “safe” now :)
I love how you pay such close attention to details Averie! Such a great photographer’s post with all these color references! :)
I just started seeing plums out a few weeks ago and have been buying them every week since. One of my favorite summer fruits!
thanks heather :) hope you had a great weekend!
beautiful photos! :) and gorgeous daughter as always!
thanks :)
WOW! Great pics!
Blueberries and Red cabbage for me.
BUT Those Magic Eight Bars are next though. :) :)
Skylar is So Dang Cute! always so smiley and happy – just like mama ;)
I had blueberries this morning! :) today’s came from the store, but I have six blueberry bushes that are hopefully ready soon… I look at them every day!
have a great week!
What beautiful blue food! <3
The last blue thing I ate was either a blueberry or a blackberry, but I really want to bake some blue-corn muffins.
This post reminds me of a book I just got called "Color Me Vegan". It's written in different (color coded) sections and features recipes that are color-based. It's such a fun book with lovely pictures. The philosophy behind it is if you eat lots of different colors you get lots of different phytonutrients :)
Father's day was lovely! I went to the farmer's market with my dad & mom, and we got amazing produce & also some already-cooked food (including soy-free "tempha" which is like soy-free tempeh…basically fermented rice noodles…from a korean stall. so yummy!)
I have that book…it’s great! I reviewed it in the past along with a million other cookbooks :)
https://www.loveveggiesandyoga.com/2011/02/cookbook-book-reviews.html
And eating the rainbow, all over that too. :)
Grapes and blueberries! I’m loving them right now!
Hi! I’m new to your blog – your delicious looking photos drew me in!
1. The last blue thing I ate was blueberry pancakes
2. Celebrated Father’s Day by going to brunch. The best thing I ate this weekend was by far Strawberry Shortcake!
thanks for stopping by!
Those blueberries look so good and fresh. I had purple grapes on Saturday. Yum. I always forget how much I like grapes until I start nibbling on them.
Blueberries for me! :) And I have no idea why I thought you had more than one child?! I’ll re phrase to ‘a very happy child AND husband!’