food, photography and my creative life
We talk a lot about food photography and food styling in the food blogging world. I think we’re sort of obsessed with it. I know I am! Ages ago I wrote about a post asking if food bloggers were caught in a rut with their food photography? It got a LOT of feedback. Haha! I think because most of us aren’t professional photographers and because
I think… I hope… that honest to goodness spring has arrived here on the west coast. I don’t want to get carried away and cause too much fuss in case it scares it off… but it’s actually possible we may get summer like temperatures this weekend! What better way to kick it off than to start experimenting with salads? Salads are great because the possibilities
I have a lot of rhubarb. I just cut down both of my two plants and I have to use it up or freeze it. I used to only have one rhubarb plant but somehow in the last two years it’s multiplied… I knew I wanted to make rhubarb orange muffins but I couldn’t find my recipe so I had to hit the web. We’re
Well! It’s been a little while since I did an actual recipe type food post, hasn’t it? I thought it was about time to remedy that 🙂 Rhubarb season is here! Yay! Rhubarb has always been one of my favourite baking fruits but, as I’ve gotten older, I like it even more. While I still definitely have a sweet tooth, I can’t gulp sugar down
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
The first time I remember having lemon curd was when I was 15 and visiting England for the second time. (My first trip was when I was two. All I remember was I had a jigsaw puzzle that I got to do on the plane and I think it came in a tin. I still love jigsaw puzzles…) I’d been wanting to go to London
Strawberries and lemons. They’re so pretty. And especially together. Tart and sweet. So different but so committed to making their relationship work out. I love strawberry lemon tarts because they have so many layers of flavours. You might not think so.. you might think they only have two: strawberries and lemons. But you would be wrong. It starts with tart lemon curd, then the slightly
Props are a pretty important piece of the food photography puzzle. There’s linens, cutlery, dishes, glasswear, backdrops, and even other food items… and you can’t use the same items every single time! Actually, that’s a lie, you probably could if you were trying to create a really unique signature look – either for yourself, a series of posts or even for a client if
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