Photos of food.

I'm currently sans decent camera, and a friend with a gadget fetish just lent me the really-quite-nice Canon Rebel T2i that he recently upgraded from (thanks, Joel!). I've never really gotten into "food styling" (it even sounds silly), but this seems as good a time as any to play around a bit.

I hereby resolve never to be one of those people who takes pictures of everything they eat, never blog incessantly about the minutiae of dinner (key word there being incessantly; I reserve the right to do this sometimes), and never ever have anything at all to do with this foodspotting business.

But food is so damn photogenic. Easy dinner with what I had lying about:

• Tricolore corkscrew pasta;
• Spicy Red sauce, with: garlic (lots and lots), 2 leeks, mystery mild dried chiles leftover from a friend's CSA box, several generous dashes of balsamic vinegar for sweetness, 2 cans organic tomato paste, water, salt, black pepper, & crushed red pepper (I like heat);
• Tossed with: roasted delicata squash, roasted walnuts, & fresh baby arugula (at the very, very end).

Some crumbly goat cheese would have been nice, and I might add some red wine to the sauce next time. Also, I was a bit heavy on the baby arugula and the bitterness was a tad more than I was aiming for. I do love me some nuts in pasta though, and delicata squash is good in nearly everything. And so pretty!