Homemade Tzatziki Sauce

Need a tasty sauce that goes with any kind of meat? Try this recipe. You can use this sauce to substitute for mayonnaise (this stuff tastes better), or if you're worried about the high sugar content in BBQ sauce. Make sure that you play some Greek Bouzouki music while you're making it. This is especially good with pork or chicken kebabs. It also makes a swell salad dressing. Have some leftover rice that's too dry? Dollop some of this on top. It's versatile!

Ingredients:

750g container of yogurt (get something creamier than 2%, my batch was too sour)
1 lemon
1/2 cucumber
a handful of chopped fresh dill
a swig of olive oil
salt & pepper
1 tablespoon minced garlic

Directions:

Finely chop the dill.
Finely dice the cucumber
(You may want to remove the skin of the cucumber first with a peeler. The skin will add bitterness)
Throw them in a bowl
Squeeze lemon halves into your hand above the bowl to catch the pits
Add salt and pepper to the bowl
Add the olive oil and minced garlic
Add the yogurt and mix thoroughly
Taste the mixture and adjust to taste

Serve it as a sauce for your favourite meat.

Some fine Bouzouki music in this shop:

Jump!

If I were to get into photography, one thing that I would explore would be portraiture of people in motion. I would find a camera with a very fast shutter speed, and tell my subjects to move. This makes the photo more interesting and fun. When the subject is in motion they are distracted from the act of photo taking. They are thinking about their movements more than their presence in the photo. This makes them more natural, and you can see the person through their movement. Their expressions become real, rather than staged (Like the portrait of Brigitte Bardot above). Motions are an injection of natural forces.

One photographer who has exemplified this type of photography, is Philippe Halsman. Many of his portraits, including a book of portraits entitled "Jump" and a number of collaborations with surrealist artist Salvidor Dali, brilliantly display the effectiveness of photography done in this way. I found out about Halsman many years ago in a college library and he quickly became one of my favourite artists. Here are a few examples of his work:


(Pictured above: Dali and model, Halsman with Marylin Monroe)

Here's an example of the same principle from a random photo from the web. This one is not a photo by Philippe Halsman:



It is dynamic and compelling and fun.

I have to add a few more examples of Halsman's work. These are not examples of portraits in motion, but they are examples of what a fine photographer Halsman is. Below are some beautiful shots of Audrey Hepburn, plus, another amazing photo that was born of his collaborations with Dali:



(One of these things is not like the other...)



Here's a quick-link to a related Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Halsman