Warm up with this Egg & Potato Hash recipe this fall. It’s just perfect for a comforting & healthy breakfast.
This week has flown by, I cannot believe it’s Thursday already! Last Saturday after Miracle Miles, Eric and I raced to our hometown to attend a baby shower for one of our sweet friends, and attended my grandma’s 80th birthday party! We also got together for breakfast with friends on Sunday (they are having a baby too). We drove back to Orlando mid afternoon on Sunday and made church that evening a priority. It feels like we have been zooming through the week without slowing down much.
If I’m not home for a day on the weekend, it makes it so challenging to get meals prepped for the week, and of course that also means food photography doesn’t happen either. Booo.
But cool stuff! I’m putting into practice some of the techniques I learned at Blog Brûlée: Food Photography using an iPhone. Thanks Deanna for teaching me your mad skills!! My photography BFF Rachel, had me to DL Snapseed, a photo editing app, a long time ago so I did… but I never really got into using it.
A few things when taking iPhone food pics
- Lighting: ALWAYS go for natural light.. turn off that flash 🙂
- Consider composition: Style food, applying same principles you would when shooting with DSLR
- Get the grid: apply the rule of thirds by adding grid to your phone! {never knew you could do this but it’s in camera settings}
- Shoot overhead: Overhead shots often look best because i-phones don’t have same depth of field as DLSR.
- Edit photos in using an app like Snapseed
So I put these principles to work for me in this picture here… it’s was pretty fast to process. Let’s see if we can get this image on FoodGawker & Healthy Aperture 🙂
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Egg & Potato Hash
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 17 mins
- Total Time: 27 mins
- Yield: 2 1x
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Warm up with this Egg & Potato Hash recipe this fall. Perfect for a comforting & healthy breakfast.
Ingredients
- 2 cups frozen shredded potatoes
- 1/4 cup red onion
- 1/4 cup diced orange bell pepper
- 4 baby bella mushrooms, sliced
- 3 pieces Canadian bacon, diced
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup shredded gouda cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Line rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place potatoes, onions, peppers, mushrooms, and bacon on baking sheet and toss with olive oil. Ensure vegetables are evenly spaced out on baking sheet, and place in oven for 15 minutes.
- Using a non stick skillet on stove top, scramble eggs and top with cheese.
- Once vegetables have baked, increase oven temperature to broil and broil for 2 minutes, to make hash browns crispy.
- Place eggs in two bowls and top with potato hash.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
- Calories: 383
- Sugar: 4g
- Sodium: 339mg
- Fat: 23g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Carbohydrates: 22g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 21g
- Cholesterol: 393mg
Do you take food pics with your smart phone? Do you use any photo editing apps?
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Wow – the image looks great! I never would have guessed it was taken with an iphone. The recipe looks delish too! I’m trying to cut sugar out of my diet right now, but breakfast is the hardest meal for me because all my favorite dishes are sweet. A good savory breakfast recipe like this is just the thing!
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Thanks Allison! I’m all into a savory bfast! My hubs on the other hand is the morning sweet tooth.
I have a Samsung Galaxy, but I suppose these tricks will work for that phone as well. Great weekend breakfast Kristina!
Yes!! I believe some of the other ladies at blog brûlée used Snapseed with their Samsung 🙂
I have always been so tempted to use the iPhone to shoot food, but am never happy with the outcomes. Thanks for the tips – will give these a whirl! And this recipe looks DIVINE! Thanks for sharing!
Anisa – The Macadames. xx
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Yeah– meeee too! I’ve been pretty snobby about it actually, but using a few tricks you can get phone pics to turn out pretty good!
I use snapseed first and then transfer to VSCO cam! Because I’m a crazy person.
I have yet to get on the VSCO cam train… your pics are gorgeous so need to DL the app if that’s what you’re using.
The tip to shoot overhead is a great one since the parallax thing that happens with side and three quarter view angles is really unflattering to food. I didn’t know about the grid. Must try that! yummy recipe my dear.
Thanks Katie. I had NO IDEA about the grid but it really changes my perspective when using my iPhone.
Nice pic! I use my phone too, as I don’t have the money (or time to learn how to use) for a DSLR camera right now. I use my Samsung Galaxy S4, and then using dropbox, all the pics are automatically uploaded to my computer, where I use PicMonkey to edit my pictures. I LOVE PicMonkey! It’s awesome at sharpening things up and it also auto-fixes exposure and color issues, which is the feature I like the most.
I love Pic Monkey too!! I just made a cool banner in there for my hubs blog the other day. Did’t realize it had SO MANY features. Exposure is big…great feature.
Whoot – a stellar iPhoneography student, for sure 🙂 Lovely photo!
lol thanks Deanna!!