The Burns Night Stack

[minesamojito]

This recipe is a rework of the Duck Egg, Black Pudding and Arbroath Smokie Stack I came up with last year, and intended as a toast to my Scottish friends and colleagues with Burns Night coming up.
I won’t pretend to have any Scottish Roots, but I find my recent foodie adventures in Scotland to have inspired me to play with new ingredients and combinations, so for that I wanted to come up with a little salute in my own style.
So without further ado, warm a potato scone ( a potato based pancake) in the toaster, and fry off in a little rapeseed oil, a slab of haggis, a slice of black pudding, a piece of smoked haddock (naturally smoked not yellow please) and a fried egg. Brown the meat and fish on both sides, and cook the fried egg until crisp but with a runny yolk. Then layer up as follows, scone, black pudding, thin round of goats cheese, haggis slice, smoked haddock and finally the egg.
Toast the poet with a wee dram of good single malt whisky.
Cheers
Marcus

[h12rpo]

Looks fekin fantastic...... Ok i dont have any of the ingredients other than the single malt and so i've had a few of those as instructed .....hic !

[minesamojito]

Thanks can't beat a single malt to warm with all this cold weather...brrr
cheers
marcus

[turkey]

looks great, would a duck egg being richer suit this with the richness of the black pudding and strength of the smoked haddock.

ps was the high iso a design decision for the look of the photo or just that dark and did not want the harshness of flash?

[cannyfradock]

....love haggis....love black pudding....love fish....and eggs

....love your pics.

Terry

[minesamojito]

thanks guys, yeah I've been playing with High ISO images, to get the background a little moody, but it's also an artifact of sharpening, I kind of like it, but it's an effect I'm still working on...
a Duck Egg would be great, but I couldn't find any....
Cheers
Marcus

[turkey]

it does look good, I wonder if you could achieve the same thing in post production (sorry to go off topic here), split the image into the near and far fields and then apply grain filters to the image.

for an interesting pic i saw a tutorial somewhere online but basically,

take your tripod of camera stabilization you are using there and aim at something like that whiskey bottle. Set it for a long exposure and make a really long exposure on a fairly low iso I believe, make sure the room is as dark as possible and take a small maglight and remove the lense so its in candle mode (you could use other similar light source). Then start to take the photo and use the light to twirl up the bottle like some kind of ballet dancer with thoes ribbon things.

The idea is to get an image with streaks that also illuminate the subject for a interesting "arty" image and some fun in the process

no idea what put that into my head, but forums are for sharing are they not

[minesamojito]

thanks mate, sounds like a good thought, have seen lots of painting with light images, yes you could easily use grain filters, I quite like a bit of grain for these kind of images, gives it character I think, I know instagram do similar filters, although I think those ones are a bit rough and ready.
It's all about aiming towards the image you are after, I prefer things with a little character, than perfectly crisp.
Cheers
Marcus

[jwyno]

The whole thing looks and sounds stunning and the way you are doing your photography is incredible.

That looks like a bottle of Jura in the background which is one of my favourite malts so top marks on the dram as well.

James

[minesamojito]

Thank you James, really appreciate your comment, nd glad you like the recipe.
Yes you are correct, is a bottle of Jura Prophecy, a stunning single malt.
Cheers
Marcus