food, photography and my creative life
It’s funny that most of the recipes on this blog are baking recipes. In actual fact, I’m a much better cook than I am a baker. And I’m a much more adventurous cook than I am a baker. Pastry eludes me. I have yet to make a really good muffin, despite 100s of attempts. Cupcakes and icing aren’t even in my repertoire and I hate
March in Vancouver has been suffering from an identity crisis. It doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. One minute, gorgeous blue skies, crocuses, warm breezes, the next snow, then hurricane force winds, then rain, them some blues skies… often all in the same day! Do you take the umbrella? Do you wear boots? The coat with the hood? Why is there a
Chocolate nutella thumbprint cookies are a delicious lunchbox or holiday favourite!
A tripod. I’ve decided that I have to just break down and photograph with a tripod until daylight savings comes back. Or, at least until we get through January. Right now, I envy people who live in cold but sunny places during the winter instead of a warm(er), damp, dark, rainy places. At least then I’d get an hour or two of decent light. I
Halloween was kind of a bust this year. Usually I get a lot of trick or treaters but this year, only about 30. Which means… …lots of leftover Halloween Candy. This is not really a good thing. Large quantities of small serving chocolate shouldn’t really be allowed in my personal space. Eventually it’s all going to wind up in my tummy. Quick poll: how many
Sometimes, you have days where regular chocolate chip cookies are just not going to do the trick. Instead, you need double chocolate chip cookies. When things get tough, you need to bring in the heavy artillery Last week was pretty much a write off for me. My computer woes did not end with my last post. Two brand new hard drives later and several trips
Wow! Now that’s a whole lot of stuff going on there isn’t it?! That’s right, this is post 100. A little less than a month shy of my 1 year anniversary. So to celebrate, we’re gonna whoop it up with some Cowgirl Cookies! Yee haw! It’s actually pretty good timing because tomorrow morning I’m heading off to Banff for 5 days. It’s the tail end
I love Two Peas and Their Pod. Maria makes the best cookies. Her recipes have never failed this cookie monster. She has over 100 of them and this is the third I’ve tried. I think it might just be my favourite. It has only good, yummy things in it. And by good, I don’t mean healthy. I mean tasty. Don’t confuse the two. You start
I know that a lot of fun is often made about British cuisine. But I will tell you something: there are things the UK gets right: chocolate fish and chips beer honest to goodness proper pubs to drink said beer in all things dessert (or pudding as they call it, whether or not in includes actual pudding) tea biscuits (or as we know them here
A few weeks ago, I was perusing Chapter’s cookbook section, as one often does when one is: hungry looking for photography inspiration looking for recipe inspiration waiting forever for somebody to show up for your coffee date… I do this with alarming frequency, which given my inability to leave Chapters without buying something, is probably not healthy for my budget… This particular day, I was
I'm a designer, small business owner, photographer, creative, food lover, traveler, dog human, self confessed geek, music junkie, book devourer, and art enthusiast among a million other things. The full bio...
