***NEW FOOD PORN (PIC-HEAVY)*** From yesterday's photo shoot at my new Mexican Restaurant client.
I'm on my way out the door so I don't have time to write comments, but I'll check back in later today. I also haven;t done any fine-tuning in Photoshop yet...these are just reduced-size versions of the originals. Enjoy!
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When I cook at home I like to use Roma tomatoes, because even though you can buy them in "plastic and waxy pale red" form, a trip to a good market will often ensure a red, ripe, juicy tomato.
I recently "wowed" some friends when I prepared dinner and included a salad. They are accustomed to buying the bag of salad greens and adding tomatoes, cucumber, whatever, and tossing it in a big bowl with dressing.
I take a medium-sized dinner plate, make a uniform bed of mixed spring greens, make a ring around the outside edge of the plate of sliced cucumber, and another ring inside of that of sliced Romas, and in the middle I put some shredded Mozzarella cheese. It was still "just salad," but we really do eat with our eyes.
I have never had a good ripe tomato in my life of traveling northern Mexico. Not sure what the deal is but it is something I have noticed all across Chihuahua and Sonora. Restaurants, homes, street food. Nobody uses really ripe red tomatoes. I have often wondered why. Maybe since so many are grown there for export they think slightly crunchy, not quite ripe is the way they are preferred up here, so it is some kind of cultural "fashion" error...??? 
Didn't think about the boy/girl thing...that's a great suggestion for next time.
Description from the menu: "Juicy bass fillet covered with our spicy ranchero sauce, olives, capers, tomato, onions and jalapenos."
When they brought it from the kitchen it was completely covered in the sauce / veggies. I said "You have to remove some of that so people will know it's a fish filet." So they did.
You can see the steam pouring off the cast-iron skillet on the left side of the photo. They were HISSING like crazy...I thought he might have hid a snake under there or something.
