I was at the grocery a few days ago and came across small packages of what looked like baby bell peppers, probably “rejects” or fruit that fell off the plants before they had a chance to mature. All shapes and sizes in red, yellow and orange. I bought several packages at PHP80 which seemed like a reasonable price for capsicums during the rainy season when they are relatively scarce. Back at home, I cleaned up the bell peppers from one package and sliced them in half. I thought they looked pretty cool so I took them outdoors to take a picture. It had been raining so the glass table outdoors was a bit wet…
…I just laid the pepper slices directly on the wet table and snapped a few photos. They looked pretty good. Don’t worry, I washed the peppers again before using them in a seafood paella, up next. Produce almost always seem to be more photogenic than most humans… :)
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a happy marriage between visual arts and culinary arts. meanwhile, i can’t wait to snatch the copy of your paella recipe MM! :)
nice pictures, MM! very colorful :)
very nice, MM! Whimsical and yet so purposive! :)
Cool pics… Those are not ‘rejects’. Those tiny colored peppers are popping up all over the place here in NY. I first encountered them 8 months ago. When my Fresh Direct groceries came.. I was blown away how tiny the were. I eat them raw on my salad. They are yummy and very sweet.. And Costco are selling them too. For PHP80 the are cheap. Enjoy them!!
You are so creative MM! Very pretty.
:) i hate bell peppers but i love the pictures :D
Another wonderful addition to your collection of stock photos, astig ka MM!
Pretty colors. I buy the small clear cartons of these baby bell peppers whenever I’m feeling ok to spend a lot of money. They are ridiculously priced, but oh so sweet and perfect for salads, curries, etc. Sometimes they’re just good as a snack to pop in your mouth, avoiding the stem as there aren’t many seeds.
i love the stunning photos of your capsicum! they are really photogenic…
very pretty…
If i may ask MR. MM where did you buy the veggies? Im not sure if these are tricolore peppers (red, orange, yellow)
I was just thinking that if I were to do the exact same thing — which is take some vegetables that I was washing, take them outside and start taking snapshots of them, my family would absolutely thing that I fell off my rocker.
But if I were so inclined, I would do exactly as you are doing, which is to just have at it and have fun.
Thanks for sharing!
How creative!
acmr, by now our crew and neighbors understand I have this bizarre penchant for photographing food outdoors. But when our neighbors to the back had workers a few months back, they stopped work on their roof when they saw me snapping shots of produce and soups in our backyard… hahaha. lettucedue, I bought them at Rustan’s Rockwell, and they were tricolore peppers, tasted exactly like capsicum to me. PHP 80 for maybe 150-200 grams, which is expensive on a per kilo basis…
i wonder marketman where could i sell my elongate sweet pepper, i have planted around 40 thousand plants in my area, i am looking for volume buyers. hope you can help me find one. im here in mindanao at kidapawan city area. buyers can text me. O919 894 1608. thanks.
very beautipol, i am from Benguet, my relatives and me used to plant different kins of capsicum…..baka my readers jan na gusto mag order……ty