{"id":1196,"date":"2012-05-13T23:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T06:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2014-02-07T00:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T08:15:27","slug":"happy-mothers-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/1196","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother&#8217;s Day 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Mother&#8217;s Day!  I love cooking, so I made something special for my mom.  Actually, me and 2 of my sisters were the kitchen workers today.  I made a salad.  So I know my mom likes this shrimp and avocado salad that is served at the restaurant where I went to culinary school.  Fine.  I&#8217;ll make that.  Again.  At home.  For her.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This is how it turned out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0278.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1205\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/1196\/img_0278\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0278.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot D10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1336923943&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0278\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0278.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0278.jpg?fit=750%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0278.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0278\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0278.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0278.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a sample plate I did.  I changed the plating a bit&#8230; moved the tomatoes face-down on the cucumbers.. and added a full steamed prawn.  But it looked something like this.<\/p>\n<p>It was good!  If I were to do it again, I&#8217;d play around with the plating some more&#8230; and I&#8217;d make the balsamic reduction thicker (when I tried to spell &#8220;Mom&#8221; in cursive on my mom&#8217;s plate, it gradually expanded until you couldn&#8217;t read it&#8230;.  >.&lt; ).  But it turned out pretty good.  But the chive oil&#8230; oh man&#8230; is it ever perdy.  Put it in a custard cup in some good light: sexy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0270.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1204\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/1196\/img_0270\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0270.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot D10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1336901104&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0270\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0270.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0270.jpg?fit=750%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0270.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0270\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0270.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_0270.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That other thing in the photo is dry whole wheat pasta &#8211; another experiment.  ^_^<\/p>\n<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Mother&#8217;s Day! I love cooking, so I made something special for my mom. Actually, me and 2 of my sisters were the kitchen workers today. I made a salad. So I know my mom likes this shrimp and avocado salad that is served at the restaurant where I went to culinary school. Fine.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/1196\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Mother&#8217;s Day 2012!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,8,9],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-photos","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-ji","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}