Flickr | Cooking On The Weekends

Today's Flickr pool photo of the day is a vibrant citrus dish with orange, grapefruit and blood orange carpaccio, courtesy of Cooking on the Weekends. The recipe includes a variety of citrus fruits that are carefully sliced and arranged in a circular pattern, topped with a yuzu-jalapeño sauce and paired with a stone fruit tree branch for presentation. Yuzu juice comes from the Asian yuzu fruit and has a sweet and sour flavor that, when paired with sugar and the spice of jalapeño, becomes a unique ingredient for this seasonal citrus dish. Consider uploading to our Flickr pool if you have any dynamic food photography from around Los Angeles.

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Flickr/Joey Zanotti

"I try to stay with themes or objects or sources I can trace back to my personal history," artist Robert Therrien once said. "The further back I can trace something as being meaningful to me in some way or another ... the more I am attracted to it." Little wonder, then, that plates, pots and pans have inspired much of his recent artwork. Today's Flickr pool photo, of an untitled sculpture by Therrien at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, comes to you courtesy of L.A. Weekly reader Joey Zanotti.

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Flickr/R.E.~

First food trucks, now ... coffee carts? It appears so. Cafe Dulce debuted one last week at Tuesday Night Cafe, a local performance arts series in Little Tokyo. Your photo comes courtesy of R.E.~, from our L.A. Weekly Flickr photo pool. The "mobile espresso bar is made of gorgeous reclaimed wood," R.E.~ writes. "It is really something that you have to see." We hope that happens soon, but for now, there's the photo. If you have your own food (coffee?) pictures, consider uploading them to our Flickr pool. Because sharing a photo doesn't mean having to share your delicious, desperately-needed, bought-from-a-cart coffee.

Flickr/Greg Lilly

Geisha House's website says it aims to be a "five-star sushi restaurant set in the atmosphere of surreal high-class brothel." That must be why an outside wall depicts a woman in geisha makeup, caught in mid-chew. Right? Today's Flickr pool photo comes to you from Greg Lilly, taken at Hollywood's Geisha House. We usually bring you the best of our pool's food shots, but this one was too compelling to pass up. The geisha's mouth is large enough to gobble up the people standing alongside. We don't see any other features of her face. Who cares if the eyes are the window to the soul?

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Flickr/Luckyrk in LA

For this week's L.A. Weekly Flickr photo pool, we bring you a banana, courtesy of Lucyrk in LA. Or rather, just the peel. Artfully twisted so that the label faces the viewer, but upside down. It's Chiquita. Look closer, and you read, "Ecuador." Meanwhile, the backdrop is plainly L.A.: Gray sky. Cars. Parking lot. Telephone poles with thick wires. A tallish building. (Could it be Capitol Records?) So far from Ecuador. Sorry about that, locavores. If you have your own gorgeous food photos, consider uploading to our photo pool. Even banana peels can be artistic.

Flickr/djjewelz

Nine courses were on the menu last week at Wolvesden, the underground, semi-secret supper club run by Craig Thornton. When Squid Ink interviewed Thornton a couple of years ago, he agreed that his plates were like Rorschach tests. (Did guests dive in? Look away? The approach conveyed a lot, he said.) Now, maybe here's the visual representation from djjewelz posted on our LA Weekly flickr photo pool -- a plate of lamb with potato puree, chicory malt, mushrooms (yellowfoot and black trumpet), grass and flowers. All splattered in Rorschach ink-blot style with beet rhubarb verjus. Djjewelz calls it "spring slaughter." What do you see?

If you have your own gorgeous food photos, consider uploading to our Flickr photo pool. Maybe food is the new therapy.

Flickr/Joey Z1

For your LA Weekly flickr pool photo of the day, we have an egg from Joey Zanotti. An Easter egg, that is, colored in yellow and raspberry, with flecks of gold and silver. Are we going to eat it? Probably not. Like most Easter eggs, we're guessing it's been hard-boiled into an unappetizing rubbery ball. Why destroy such beauty, anyway?

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Flickr/thepaolosaurus

This LA Weekly flickr pool photo comes to you from Paolo Pamintuan, a.k.a. thepaolosaurus. "mmmm... calories," says the caption. This is a mystery french fry, its provenance unknown. But who cares? The fry's curved neck, straining under the weight of gooey cheese and bacon bits, tells us all we need to know. A woman looks on from behind: Conqueror versus conquered. Have some of your own gorgeous food photos? Think about uploading them to our Flickr photo pool. Because sharing a photo doesn't mean having to share your fries.

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebetty

Kerry Simon's tuna dynamite

Sure, tuna tartare is a bit, well, dated. However, this is not just anybody's "tuna dynamite," but Kerry Simon's (Simon L.A.). Which means that it could very well explode. (Or maybe that's his cotton candy.) Whatever happens to it, it's better than your tuna tartare, that's for sure. This L.A. Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer averagebetty, happily comes with a recipe.

And a reminder that if you have any brilliant shots of food you've taken around town recently, you might consider uploading them on our Flickr pool. Never know where they might show up.

Flickr photo pool/Darin Dines

Call it the FG&J -- foie gras and jelly. Today's Flickr pool photo of a doughnut from & e (yes, that's the real name) inside downtown's new UMAMIcatessen comes from blogger Darin Dines. "At $8, this was probably the most expensive donut I've ever had," he writes. At least it's also picturesque, with the foie gras mousse oozing out, and peanut topping. Will maple-bacon doughnuts lose the spotlight? Maybe, maybe not. Remember that foie gras will be banned in California beginning in July. (Expect many foie gras-themed dinners until then, including one tonight at Haven Gastropub.) Got your own food shots? Consider uploading to our photo pool. Because sharing a photo doesn't mean having to share your dessert.