food, photography and my creative life
Do you remember the show Friends? And Joey and his obsession with sandwiches? Ok, well I totally get where Joey was coming from. Sandwiches, or sammiches as I refer to them, are the best. thing. ever. Even better than cookies. I know! Better than cookies! Now if that’s not a statement, I don’t know what is. A few weeks ago I posted about the Whitewater
If you follow this blog with any kind of regularity, then you know that I have a love/hate relationship with pastry. Love eating it. Hate making it. I’m a decent baker but pie crust eludes me completely. So, I buy it. The two shell yellow box from Tenderflake. It’s fast, easy and has never failed me. Until now. I think I got ambitious and greedy
There is absolutely nothing like tomatoes straight from your garden. Nothing. Not even tomatoes from the farmer’s market. When you grow them, you get to choose when you pick them. You can eat them when they’re still warm from the sun and you can smell that distinctly tomato vine smell that comes with them – it gets all over your hands and clothes. One of
I’ve been feeling a little bleah about my photography lately, especially food. I have this lovely new camera and I should be flying. But in all honesty, it’s sooo muucch worrrrrk (read that like a mopey 15 year old groaning about having to do their own laundry). I know my mom reads this pretty regularly (hi mom!!) and she usually tells me in situations like
I have a confession to make: most of the time I’m a make ahead blogger. What I mean by that is, because the focus of my blog is food photography and light is scarce in winter, I often do most of my cooking, shooting and writing on the weekends. (oh… I cannot wait for summer to get here!). I can edit photos and write posts
I loves me a good Mac n Cheese dish. It may be my all-time favourite comfort food and while I’ve made a few good ones in my life, this is hands down the best ever. It’s not fancy or difficult. Every ingredient will probably be in your pantry. No fancy cheeses, nothing out of the ordinary (although I do love mac n cheese with some
I’m tired of sweets and cookies. Unfortunately, they seem to be one of the few things that lend themselves to shooting in the few decent hours of daylight that I get this time of year. So, I threw caution to the wind and photographed my dinner concoction the other night under the kitchen table light while it was pitch black outside. Wild and crazy, I
Ok, the Kahlua brownies are coming, I swear. But first, you all need to eat your veggies! And to my friend who said with a wail (well, I imagine it to be a wail, she actually typed it on my FB page so I’m adding in the wail because I know it was there… oh yes, I know…) “But I don’t haaaaave spaghetti squash. I
Lettuce wraps are one of my favourite ways to start a Thai meal. They’re messy and drippy but oh so flavorful and a wonderful mixture of textures. I’ve never made them before because for some reason, I thought they would be really hard. But they’re totally not! The great thing about these is you can add all kinds of goodies from the fridge. I have
Ah, I promised you all another tomato recipe. I’m swimming in the the things. I’ve always wanted to make a tomato tart. There is something so… handmade looking about them. Simple food that is so beautiful to look at and tasty to eat… the simpler the flavours the better. This recipe, which I got from Delia Online and then modified a bit to suit my
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