Warning: may be habit forming.
Pinterest has added a new dimension to my love affair with food - photos, photos, photos.
Not a lot of links to recipes for the items shown; but they are inspirational nonetheless.
Sometimes I have ingredients, and go a Googling to find a recipe to put them to creative use.
Sometimes I find a recipe, usually in the paper or a magazine, and just reading through the ingredient list gives me the nudge to get up and put something new together.
But photos of food on Pinterest (a social media site, where each account holder 'pins' photos found on the internet to their digital scrapbook, which other account holders can see, comment on, and even 'repin' to their own accounts' 'boards') work some other part of my brain. That part where images live, I guess, apart from words or smells or even the memory of foods indulged in in the past.
When I scan through a board of food pins, not everything looks good to me. And I don't have an irrepressible urge to get up and cook. I just re-pin what looks most attractive to my own board, titled Fabulous Food, and know I can go there any time for inspiration.
Soon I should be going back through my recipe posts here, pinning the photos from them, and giving folks on Pinterest a link to my recipe, in case the photo inspires them to make the dish.
Want to see what's in my scrapbook so far? Just visit http://pinterest.com/steamtour/
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