Click Red - Hot & Sweet
After much deliberation, battery-charging, camera-tweaking, bending, hemming and hawing, I finally have the entry for Click.
I bought some dried cherry chillies from the wet market last weekend. Or what I thought were dried cherry chillies. They were actually dried red dates! Ah well, as long as they are red, it works. And maybe I can come up with some nice chutney or dip with them, who knows.
As I did last weekend, I took close to 15o pictures today and finally have my entry. I am so happy I can finally think of food without wondering what colour it is. Phew.
Hot & Sweet - My Click-Red Entry
Now tell me. If these were in a transparent, unlabelled packet in a shop selling vegetables, wouldn't you have thought they are dried cherry chillies too? There you go!
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Hi Nags, you are amazing:-) I love this click, and the hot and sweet caption is perfect. The bag of dried red dates looks definitely like dried red chillies! You can make date pickle, or date and raisin chutney with those dried red chillies from the first picture. Love the second pic too, is it a white paper bag that you have kept it in, and how many kgs did you buy? Awesome colour and click again, I hope they taste as great too:-) I truly am happy with this entry...sorry if my last comment felt harsh, I did have second thoughts after posting...
ReplyDeletenags i knew that u'll come up somethg more beautiful than tomato which is already cute , when u said u r not sendg it and u didnt disappointed me .... very nice pic ..
ReplyDeletedeepa
I probably would have mistaken them for chillis, but would have felt them up ;-) to make sure. The red dates I have seen in fruit shops a couple of times were still on the stalk, and tubular and smooth.
ReplyDeleteWow..thats HOTTTTT Click! Worth all ur efforts Nags! Wish u all the best, hope this entry is a winner!
ReplyDeleteThat would be a perfect one for the event Nags! I am going to send last minute entry I think!!
ReplyDeleteI honestly thought they were chillies till I read your post. And the picture looks good.
ReplyDeleteTrying to take "hatke" pictures for CLICK usually drives me and my family crazy.
After I've tried all sorts of acrobatics (cos I'm still terrible at techinique) and my eyes are popping out, there are times I feel I should give up photography and relax!
But then the next month it starts all over again. :D
Hi Nags,
ReplyDeleteI love red and you have captured it to the best. Looks amazing. Good Job!
thanks for a lovely entry, dear nags.
ReplyDeleteI didnt know there were dry red dates available.
ReplyDeleteNow i know a new fryfruit.
The pictue looks beautiful.
Excellent Click Nags!! A lot of effort put in there by you (150 ???, thats a lot of patience there)..Now I knw that red dates are available too :)..
ReplyDeleteThey certainly don't look like any Date I've ever seen. How strange.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone who likes the pics :)
ReplyDeleteShreya - You were definitely not harsh! Constructive criticism is always welcome, after all I am still a beginner.
I actually bought a very small packet of the dates. The white paper bag I saved last week when we ordered pizza and the ketchup came in it. The moment I saw the bag, I wanted to try this. So, inorder to fill the bag, I put the dried red chillies at the bottom, put a plastic piece over them and then put the red dates on top to make it look filling. I also cut off the bag a bit on top.
I am telling you, this.takes.time!!
Nothing more to say..Awesome click!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful click..looks like seeing for the first time Nags..kudos to the photographer in you
ReplyDeleteYou are so sweet! I'll look for asafetida in Salt Lake and if I can't find it, I'll write to you and ask you to send it. But I think I can find it here if I go to the Indian Market. Can't wait to try it!
ReplyDeleteExcellent Click Nags!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour patience is commendable! and worth every bit because of the awesome results..hope you win:-) I will vote for sure!
ReplyDeletewhere'smy comment gone?
ReplyDeleteanyhoo i said they do look like chillies and nice shot!
ReplyDeleteLovley pics! They certainly don't look like dates...
ReplyDeleteYou have got the Click right, you should make a cranberry and red chillies relish
ReplyDeleteI saw this in the gallery. Lovely idea to mix the 2 toghether & lovely shot too.
ReplyDeleteWe call those dates, "Ber".. I think those are dried ber. We make khatta mitha pickles with these in bengal with Jaggery. Also used to make Dal, which adds a sour taste to the dal.
Yeah, they do look like chilies, never seen dried red dates... I too like this picture better than the previous one... :)
ReplyDeleteSig, you mean you like the second pic better than the first? or like this to the tomato pic?
ReplyDelete150 clicks ! wow !thats a lot of effort for one pic. But then thats the spirit. i like the second pic.
ReplyDeleteThats a really nice one...Actually, I loved the tomato one too, but this is really good !! Really nice blog you have here...Love the food pics, really neat !
ReplyDeleteHi Nags,
ReplyDeleteLovely pics, both of them!
A dip/chutney would be nice :) so do we wait for the recipe now?
Thats a wonderful click! Gorgeous!
ReplyDeletenice blog you have here. Funny how you thought the red dates were cherry chillies!! I was laughing! But guess if you've never seen or had red dates - who would know!!
ReplyDeleteLovely click nags!
ReplyDelete:) I meant I like this one better than the tomato pic. The tomato was a lovely concept, but the double backdrop kind of spoiled the effect I think. It would've worked better against an all white background in my opinion, but I ain't no expert :)
ReplyDeleteThis one I love, in fact I like both the pictures in this post.
Sig - I totally agree about the double backdrop. I was too tired at the end of it to do anything about it..
ReplyDeleteGreat Click Nags...
ReplyDeleteNice theme Nags and good pics too! 150 pics...girl, you are mighty patient!! :)
ReplyDelete:) I meant I like this one better than the tomato pic. The tomato was a lovely concept, but the double backdrop kind of spoiled the effect I think. It would've worked better against an all white background in my opinion, but I ain't no expert :)
ReplyDeleteThis one I love, in fact I like both the pictures in this post.