Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Half fill a large pot with cold water
Place pot with water on burner set on "high"
Directions:
Chicken Meatballs - lay out chicken meatballs on cookie sheet in a single layer
- once oven is heated to temperature, place cookie sheet on middle rack and cook for 7 minutes
- remove cookie sheet from oven and turn meatballs to ensure even browning
- place cookie sheet back in oven and cook for another 7 minutes
Pasta - place an appropriate amount of pasta into boiling water
- reduce heat to above medium (say 6ish)
- stirring occassionally, cook pasta for fifteen minutes, or untiil desired consistency is reached
- drain pasta in collander and rinse with water
- return pasta to pot
- add spice and olive oil and stir to ensure consistent coverage
- add meatballs to pasta and mix thoroughly
Serve on a plate. Add a glass of wine. Serves at least one.
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You get an extremely high score solely because your dish, unlike so many others in this challenge, is located on a table and NOT floating in a black or white void.
Very nice. I love your choice of tilting the framing; it makes for a far more interesting, dynamic picture. The colors are vibrant, the focus is sharp; the fork also really adds to the image. Great shot.
the darkness in the upper left (the stove maybe?) is very distracting to my eye. perhaps move the plate more onto and end of the table and rais the camera a bit do only the table is in the BG.
The focus on this is a little too shallow. I think it would have been more effective to have more of the whole plate in focus. The brightly colored label on the bottle in the background distracts from your main subject.
I don't like tilted camera shots. Makes me concentrate on wondering why the meatballs don't roll off the plate and why the plate doesn't slide off the table.