Lifespan of a Chennette

I had a plan for this NOODLE edition of Click! (the monthy themed food-photography event hosted by Bee and Jai of Jugalbandi), which involved sawine, Trini-style, as depicted here.
Of course, I wasn’t planning to use THAT photo which is why I had a plan to take some more artistic photograph of sawine, or vermicelli noodles or something. But here we are.

Or rather, here I am, in Turkey, without any sawine, or vermicelli noodles to photograph. But I want to participate in Click as much as I can, so given the leeway the organisers have given in the early stages, I am going to repost an older photo, just this once. I wish it was at least a photo using my D80, but I did like my CoolPix 7900’s food shots.

It is still sawine, or as we Trinis call it, sawine CAKE, as our sawine is noodles in sweetened, spiced milk. Sawine made like this, is more common in Guyana, and they just call it vermicelli, cooking the noodles with sugar and spices (and in some cases egg) and setting it to firm up in a pan, before cutting into squares. I don’t always like this version, as I have some texture issues, but this one I had on Eid ul Adha last year, was actually pretty good. It also had some maraschino cherries mixed in (hence the pink spots).

Visit the current entries for this month. The deadline is November 20 (and since I return home midnight on the 20th, you see why I resorted to a previous picture). Good Luck all!

I apologise if the links aren’t proper – I am blogging via Flickr as even the proxies aren’t perfect from this connection.