The Word Press Weekly Photo Challenge posted this past Friday is Create.
Things are created in so many ways – In nature, we see the creation of valleys and mountains. Through plants we see creations as delicate as floral aromas and as strong as redwood forests. Animals create things as large as coral reefs and as small as spider webs. All part of the grand design.
We humans design and create a little more deliberately – with words and music, with visual, structural, electronic, and tactile media. With natural and synthetic elements. We’re always trying to create something new, or something we think will be better. Hybrid plants and animals, new building materials, new sounds.
Of course, one of our oldest creative outlets around the world is cooking. Although regionally we may have had relatively finite resources, we can now rework those resources in new combinations and methods of preparation. We adapt something from one culture’s cuisine into another’s. Or we try nutmeg in something where we’d normally add cumin… and suddenly the possibilities seem nearly endless.
My beloved and I have recently been following an anti-inflammatory diet that has limited some of the possibilities we used to have. As a result, we’ve had to get creative with our meal preparations – learning to use different spice combinations and condiments. I started with adding curry to a few sort of bland meals. Following are some meals we made using curry, lemon, avacados, tomatoes, and apples.
Spinach omelet & Avacado, tomato, cranberry, apple, walnut curry salad on a bed of spinach; Tuna, lemon, celery, apple curry lettuce wraps.
Curried Salmon, with basmati rice and salad of spinach, tomato, avacado, and apple, dressed with extra virgin olive oil, lemon, and curry.
These are just a few of the things we came up with using curry. We’ve also used fresh basil and some other spices and herbs to tweak chicken, fish, and salad dishes… and then there’s the variety of flavors we’ve added to our breakfast fruit smoothies….
Anyway – that’s our most recent foray into creativity… To see what other bloggers came up with for this challenge, click here!
The Retiring Sort 
I kept thinking web dishes… 😉 spider web and those tasty dishes. 😆
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Cute! 😉
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Would love that curried salmon recipe. What kind of curry did you use?
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I just rubbed it with some extra virgin olive oil and curry powder a little before cooking it in a pan where I had sauted and removed a little crushed garlic. I covered it briefly with the lemon slices on top just after I turned it, to make sure it cooked through. Not very scientific, but it smelled heavenly!!
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I never thought of curry with salmon, but I have a very nice curry powder, so I’m going to try it. We’ll probably grill it.
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Yummy! 😉 I also sometimes cook salmon with sliced pears – the sweet and salty complement one another! You can deglaze that with a little white wine at the end – but that wasn’t on this part of our diet!
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Great photo! Inspires me to capture a web on my own porch. I have a large, beautiful visitor every night. Don’t know what kind he is but I’ve left him alone because he looks as if he’s guarding the house. Seriously!
The food looks excellent. Lovely presentation. The anti-inflammatory diet is great and you’ve done some nice things with it.
Fun, creative post.
Peace,
Alexandria
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Thanks, Alexandria! Hope you get some good shots of your “guardian! 😉
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Spider’s Web – great – best interpretation that I have seen!
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Thanks so much!
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YUM to your creative side. 🙂
( but I love that spider web )
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😉 Thanks!
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I agree cooking is one of our oldest creative outlets. Delicious!
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Thanks, Amy! 😉
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Interesting photos and thoughts. I like the spider web for this challenge the most but of course the best photo I’ve enjoyed on your blog is the header photo of you on your homepage with such a lovely smile as you’re kayaking. Thanks for leaving such a lovely comment about my son on my blog which led me back to your great blog. All the best!
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Thanks so much, Andy! Thanks for visiting – all the best to you as well!
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Nice shots! I like the idea of the web. thanks for stopping by my blog.
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Thanks so much! And you’re welcome! 🙂
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Love the spider web! Thanks for the food ideas. Husband and I try to eat similarly. Curry spices up so many things and I have plenty of herbs, especially basil to add.
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Thanks for the comments & for stopping by! It’s amazing how just a small amount of something like curry or ginger can add wonderful zip to a meal!
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Brilliant photo of the web!
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Thanks – we seem to get a lot of garden spiders on our front porch – sometimes in the morning dew, a web will just stand out!
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Wow, great spider webs. yumi .. … de spinach with avacado salad.. yumi .. 😆 Thank you so much my friend for this “creative sharing.”
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Thanks! We always seem to have these webs on our porch – and I’m pleased to report the salads were tasty! 😉
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Beautiful spider web pic, and all those meals look absolutely delicious. Now I’m feeling quite peckish. 😉
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Thank you! Our industrious little spiders do nice work! We’re getting better at coming up with yummy salads!
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Hi! The spider web is gorgeous, but personally I’ll opt for a bit of that lovely meal you’ve prepared. Please. Must mind my manners. 🙂
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Thank you – one of the best part of these meals is that they’re all so quick to make! 🙂
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Love the spider web – and did you know scientists have i
‘injected’ them with serum from scizophrenic patients and then thyey spin crazy webs.
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Yikes! That’s really interesting!
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Great post – and the food looks wonderful! A great way to eat, and so tasty 🙂
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Thanks, Colleen! 🙂
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Great entries for “create”! The dishes look very appetizing.
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Thanks – it was a little daunting starting that diet – we had to make it fun and tasty!
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