Halloween Costume Ideas from Japan's SiFiers + FOOD: Pan Seared, Oven Roasted Catfish

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Halloween Costume Ideas 
via Japanese SiFi

Halloween is coming, now is the time to start thinking about that fantastic (everyone was talking about it), costume you are going to create this year. Here are some ideas from Japan's love of SiFi.

So get out your aluminum foil and paper maché, buy some paint, go to the hardware store for tubing, ducts, brads, etc., and make your SiFi costume!

(Source: Mirko Ilic)

FOOD

Pan Seared

Oven Roasted

Catfish

Ingredients:

4 (6-ounce) catfish fillets

Salt and Pepper to taste

Flour, for dredging

3 tablespoons olive oil

Directions:

- Heat a cast-iron pan over medium high heat and add olive oil. 

- When oil is hot, sear fish on both sides until lightly colored.

- Place the pan with fillets in 350º oven and bake for 5 minutes or until the fish starts to flake apart when pressure is applied with the thumb and index finger.

- Serve with cocktail sauce, ketchup, or tartar sauce on the side.

(Source: Atkinson Family Cookbook)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD is an online magazine dedicated to providing artists and collectors around the world with highlights of current art exhibitions, and to encourage all readers to invest in and participate in "The Joy of Art"® and culture. All rights reserved. Concept, Original Art, Text & Photographs are © Copyright 2015 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. Any gallery, event, museum, fair or festival photographs were taken with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

Street Art & "Green Villain" Graffiti Project Jersey City + Food: Sole a la Meuniere

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Street Art

at THE

Green Villain 

Graffiti Project 

Jersey City, NJ

+ REAL STREET ART

a photo-essay

It seems "Street Art" is the new graduate school for young artists. This issue of ARTSnFOOD takes a look at two approaches. 

The first approach looks at a project by the production company, "Green Villain". They invited all the local graffiti artists in Jersey City, NJ, to transform a former Pep Boys Auto Center building into a "Street Art - Art Space", creating a (brick/mortar/plaster/spray-paint) graffiti gallery show for the community to enjoy. The building will be demolished, for new construction after the show ends, such is the fate of graffiti.

The second approach is a photojournalistic point of departure for "Street Art" i.e.: "found art" on the actual streets of NYC.

Approach 1) A Graffiti Invitational Exhibition - "The Green Villain Graffiti Project", Jersey City, NJ. (The inside and outside of this building was given over to graffiti artists for an exhibition of their talent. Our coverage is of the exterior artworks only.)

Detail of the graffiti wall directly above, can you find the fire hose connection in the art?

A long wall sequence left to right, (1 beginning).

Sequence left to right, (2).

Sequence left to right, (3).

Sequence left to right, (4, end).

complete east wall from coverage at http://massappeal.com/green-villain-pep-boys-demolition-exhibition/

(Source: All (unattributed) photos were taken from public access views of the building's exterior, by ARTSnFOOD staff.)

(Link - for interior photos of this exhibition, Google: The Green Villain Graffiti Project)

Approach 2) "Real Street Art", a short photo essay of one NYC street!

Photographs by Jack A. Atkinson.

(Source: All photos by Jack A. Atkinson, ARTSnFOOD.)

FOOD:

Sole a la Meuniere

(Fillet of Sole with Oranges and a Butter Sauce)

Ingredients:

2 large oranges

3 large tomatoes

1/2 cup butter

1 tsp flour

pinch salt and pepper

2 fillets of sole

4 tablespoons butter

5 slices of bacon

Juice of 1/2 lemon

1/4 cup dry white wine

1 tsp chopped mixed herbs

Directions:

Peel orange and cut into sections 

Place orange sections between two microwave plates and heat for 10 seconds.

Set orange sections aside and keep warm.

Skin, quarter and remove pip from the tomatoes. 

Saute the tomatoes in butter for 1 to 2 minutes.

Set tomatoes aside and keep warm.

Mix the salt and pepper in the flour.

Lightly flour the fillets. 

Heat a  frying pan melt 1/4 cup of butter in it.

When the butter is frothing, lay in the fillets and fry until golden brown on each side, turning only once. 

Arrange fillets on a serving dish with a grilled slice of bacon between each fillet.

Garnish the stack with  oranges and tomatoes.

Strain the sauce from the the frying pan, re-heat and drop in the remainder of the butter. When frothing, quickly add the lemon juice, 1/4 cup of white wine, herbs, and boil for 1 minute. 

Pour over the dish and serve at once.

(Source: Recipe from the Atkinson Family Cookbook.)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD is an online magazine dedicated to providing artists and collectors around the world with highlights of current art exhibitions, and to encourage all readers to invest in and participate in "The Joy of Art"® and culture. All rights reserved. Concept, Original Art, Text & Photographs are © Copyright 2015 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. Any gallery, event, museum, fair or festival photographs were taken with permission. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.