Blood Orange: An irresistible photo-meme

Posted on Jan 22 in fruitby nikaPrint

Before some 2 years ago, I had never heard of blood oranges. Now it seems like they are everywhere. I love oranges, especially the kind you peel, like navels. I adore fresh squeezed but dont like doing it myself (dont like to get the citric acid all over my poor dry winter skin and the wax the stores put on the peel always ends up flaking off onto my palms – yucktastic).If you search across the food blogosphere, you will find many examples of blood orange lust. Here is a small listing for you to cruise at your leisure:

MattBites beautiful blood oranges
The Food Section on blood oranges
NYTimes
California Blood Orange
a Blood Orange Quinoa Salad
Blood Orange Cordials
German blood orange kit kat sort of candies
Blood Orange Sour

I will be updating this post a bit later to discuss how I took this shot, in case you were curious.

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3 Comments

• bea at La tartine gourmande says:

  January 23, 2007 at 7:19 pm

  Delicious shot Nika. What a great color and focus! They are irresistible, aren’t they?

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• Lisa (Homesick Texan) says:

  January 23, 2007 at 9:19 pm

  Gorgeous photo! Did you watch Dexter? The opening credits had an amazing blood orange shot and I wonder if that’s what spurred all the attention. In any case, congrats on the migration! Blogger is driving me nuts so it’s something I’ve been considering as well.

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• admin says:

  January 24, 2007 at 9:09 am

  Bea: Thanks! They ARE so attractive, fun to play with. When I squeezed the juice tho, these oranges were sorta bitter. Takes some getting used to.

  Lisa: Thanks ma’am. Yikes, the only Dexter I know is Dexter’s Laboratory on Cartoon Network (I dont watch much adult TV, its Wonder Pets, Backyardigans, and Mr. Rogers for me these days). Thnx re: the migration. Let me tell you, Blogger was driving me batty with its slowness, its beta version, and you can tell they are starting to make old blogger life unbearable so you have to upgrade (tho it sounds like beta is just as much trouble)

  If you want to migrate to wordpress.. DO NOT go to beta first.. with WP you just hit a button and it synchs with OLD blogger and it all transfers. Not the case with beta blogger.

  We are thinking about helping frustrated blogger types migrate to a server we have.. I would set up their WP and database and help them with their theme customization (in terms of plugins and such, not major site design – I can do that but it drives me batty).. We just did this for a collegue (sp) who was really frustrated with blogger. We charge to migrate and then a low monthly hosting rate.

  I am NOT a salesperson, nor is my husband (we are geeks) so I am not sure where this will go.

  LOVED your choco-frito-pie. Sweet (esp. chocolate) and salty is a deadly addictive combo.

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