So I was hoping that slowly but surely my photo’s were starting to improve. I think I let the stress of over complicating everything take over again! I am playing with picmonkey and playing with backgrounds and composition and the such, and hopefully one day, one day….. Food Gawker will accept one of my photo’s!! At least for now I know that at least my recipes are good and that the food is great! I am getting very close to my one year anniversary and I look at my earlier photo’s and I think that sometimes I really like them better. I had no idea what I was doing back then I had never heard of picnik or picmonkey, food gawker, taste spotting. I just cooked the food, placed it on my kitchen table and took a photo. And other than it only being about 2″ square….. they really were not that half bad. It was an honest photo of an honest meal. I am so stressed out over staging and props, and lighting that my photo’s look like crap now.
Like in this photo I was so concerned in getting the cool chared look of my tortilla that you can not even see the salsa that I made!!! Are you kidding me! The Salsa was the best part of the recipe!!!! I promise that I am going to figure this out!!! I have a few photo’s already taken for the next few posts and they too are a work in progress…….. but I am getting the kinks worked out and I am ready to take this problem head on! Food blogging is about th food! And I am ready to get back to basics and make the photo’s about the food again! Untill then I hope that you will enjoy these Taco’s!! These were so good and so fresh and bright and flavorful that I will be making them again and again all summer long!
This is a great Summer Nights Dinner! You can make the Whole Meal Outside and Never turn on the Stove! Great for Entertaining or just staying in with a Loved one!
Ingredients
- 1 cup cubed fresh pineapple
- 1/2 cup cubed fresh mango
- 1 diced fresh jalapeno
- juice of 1 lime
- 1/8 diced red onion
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2-3 boneless skinless chicken breasts (depeding on the size and how many taco's you will make)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tbs chilli powder
- 1 tsp cayenne powder
- olive oil
- corn tortilla's
Instructions
- in a mixing bowl comine first 6 ingredients cover and chill for 30 min
- pre heat grill to med high heat
- season chicken with salt pepper and seasonings on each side of breast evenly
- drizzle with oilve oil
- grill 6-7 min each side make sure you get a nice char-grille on the meat
- let the meat rest for 5-10 min then dice
- over the heat of the grill or the flame of a gas stove char the corn tortilla's for 10-15 sec each side
- layer with the meat and the salsa
- Enjoy!
This looks wonderful – certianly gets attention when it is in a huge firework
Cheers
CCU
Its the perfect summer dinner just going off the title alone! I would love these! Buzzed ya!
Mm, charred tortillas are awesome! And pineapple mango salsa sounds SO rockin’. Anything with cilantro on it is perfection in my book. Yummy!
Oh and girl, don’t stress about picture stuff! As long as you have good light (which you do), the whole editing part doesn’t really matter. I edit my pictures in Paint, for crying out loud. You’re doing a great job!!
Thanks Hayley!!!!
Chandra, these look great! I love the charred tortillas!