Nice recipes and some great pics. As an avid, amateur photographer (you can check out some of my stuff at
Flickr: pwmartin's Photostream ) here are my fave pictures and why I like them.
1. Chopping onions-nice angle and interesting movement-needs just a bit of sharpening and color balance though.
2. the shot of your girlfriend eating the endive canape-nice DOF in that shot and decent composition.
3. the individual pumpkin set at the table- nice angle, great composition and nice warm color tones.
4. close up of the vegetables in roaster before being placed on the over rack-again nice DOF it really draws the eye in.
5. finally the shot of the brussel sprouts in your hand-the composition is excellent especially with the beautiful bokeh (the out of focus light spots in back) in the background. It would have in nice to have all the sprouts in sharp focus, but not a real major deal in this shot.
Most of the other shots are decent, but I don't think they are winners. Only 1 or 2 real dogs in all those shots, so really nice job.