Susan Solo – Photographer | Traveler | Adventurer

Tag: Photo Friday

  • Photo Friday – Scones

    A few years ago I resolved to buckle down and really spend some time learning how to cook. My plan was to experiment, and practice my way through a well-rounded list of food types. I did practice quite a lot, though somewhere along the way I dropped the ball on photographing my experiments and checking things off my list. This past weekend, inspired by our recent Ireland and Scotland travels, I attempted baking scones from scratch and they turned out great! I was a little intimidated to use my food processor for only the second time ever, but I watched a few videos on youtube and it turns out that the food processor isn’t too difficult to use. The scones looked pretty photogenic, so I got the camera out for a little scone photo shoot. I’m officially checking that one off the list! Oh, and if you want to make these too, I used a New York Times recipe.

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  • Photo Friday – Potterhead

    Feeling a bit nostalgic, I’m posting an image from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows release at Borders in 2007. I took the image below while waiting in the queue to pick up my copy of the book at Midnight. The final Harry Potter book was released on my birthday – what a great birthday present, right?!

    The reason for the Harry Potter nostalgia is that on Wednesday this week I booked tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London next year! I couldn’t be more excited, but I’m a little shocked that I was able to get tickets. I didn’t really expect to snag them, so Chris and I didn’t have London in the travel plans for 2016, but obviously now I will happily squeeze it into our itinerary! I’m thrilled to see London again, and obviously ecstatic for the next installment of the HP story. Accio 2016!

    Note: This post has been edited to remove extraneous exclamation marks.

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  • Photo Friday – PATH

    When Chris and I visited Toronto, we knew we only had a prescribed amount of time to accomplish several things on our must-do list. I had heard of PATH, Toronto’s underground mall, and it was going to be our back-up plan if the weather didn’t cooperate. As luck would have it, bright sunny skies and perfect temperatures kept us happily exploring the city above ground, but we did see this elaborate PATH entrance when we stopped by the Hockey Hall of Fame. With stunning architecture like that I would have loved to see the rest of the mall, but we’ll have to add it to the list for next time!

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  • Photo Friday – Black Pudding

    I’m not a vegetarian although sometimes I do naturally gravitate towards a meat-free day. I eat chicken, beef, and pork with the occasional seafood and pretty much don’t go outside of that list. I’m also someone who really needs my protein to have an abstract quality – I don’t do well with being served a dish that still has eyeballs, for example. And while I require (as much as possible) that the source was free-range, organic, pastured, and treated as humanely as possible, I prefer not to know other process details.

    That said, the full Irish breakfast was a bit of a challenge for me when it was time to try the black pudding. I recently saw a segment on the Food Network on exactly how black pudding, sometimes called blood sausage, is made. I completely understand that it’s a matter of what one is used to eating, and that for many countries black pudding isn’t something to be squeamish about, but before my trip to Ireland I had never consumed anything with pig’s blood as the main ingredient.

    I promised myself I’d experience the full Irish breakfast though, and I ate it! I actually ate it twice – the first time I forgot to take a photo (darn it!), so I ordered the dish again at the The Arches Country House where Noreen served us this gorgeous meal. Okay, technically both times I gave half of the pudding to Chris, but I still think it counts.

    If you’re wondering whether or not I am now a fan of black pudding, um…no. I still can’t get past the ingredients, but it was a huge step for me to try it! I’m not usually good about trying new foods, but I’m pushing myself to get out of my comfort zone (within reason). And in case you can’t tell from the photo, the rest of the breakfast was fantastic.

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  • Photo Friday – Sunset on Galway

    Photo Friday – Sunset on Galway

    This image was taken from our room at The Herons Rest bed and breakfast in Galway. Chris and I stayed in the beautiful Galway Bay Panorama room and soaked in the incredible view of this sunset from our balcony window. I’ll post more about where we stayed throughout Ireland shortly, but in the meantime I can say that I wholeheartedly recommend The Herons Rest if not for this view alone, then definitely for the gourmet breakfast. Stay tuned for details!

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