Beetroot, walnut and goats cheese spelt risotto.
Method:
- One onion (or a few shallots) in butter in big shallow pan
- Add garlic
- Two chopped cooked beetroots
- One courgette
- Handful of walnuts
- 100g wholegrain spelt (serves 2)
- Sizzle briefly (that's the food, not the cook, though I was wearing an indecent amount of glamorous eye make up from today's shoot)
- Add about 450ml of vegetable stock, and a splash of white wine for luck
- boil/simmer until the spelt absorbs most of the water
- grate in hard goats cheese
- Inhale gorgeousness
- Grind in a load of black pepper
- Admire the bright pink concoction as it bubbles away
- When liquid is absorbed, serve into shallow bowls and top with a handful of fresh watercress.
Delicious.
In other news, I'm happy to say I'll be modelling for the Yerburys at the SWPP Photographic Convention in January (8th-14th at the Hilton at Edgware, London), for their two 'Superclasses', 'Boudoir to Nude', which has just three places left (on Tues 8th) and a portraits/creative lighting class (on the 11th) which has already sold out. It'll be my first time there, and I'm sure will be a lot of fun! Maybe see some of you there, so come and say hi!
And finally, here are some shots made by the very lovely Bob Freund, taken in the stunning, surreal, wonderfully spiky Joshua Tree National Park in California. I spotted a coyote there one day (I was lucky enough to go there several times in the course of a week) and spent one evening lying against rocks in the dark watching the amazing star-ful sky! Very very peaceful and eerie. Bob found a particular spot in the park that he'd been searching for years, since photographing it once and wanting to go back; that's not an easy feat, when the park is so huge, and required an initial detour to a patch of deceptively beautiful, violent cacti. Luckily, they didn't get us! Thanks Bob!
