food, photography and my creative life
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
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
One of the benefits of my job is, I have a lot of creative clients. This makes me ridiculously happy for many reasons. But, here’s one of the best reasons: I get to do totally fun stuff with them that I wouldn’t get to do if I still worked in a corporate office. My first experience with this was a couple of years ago, when
When I went to bed Friday night, it was the middle of June. When I woke up the next morning, I could have sworn I’d slept straight through to mid-November. It was wet, cold, dark and miserable. Figures. It was the first weekend in weeks where I didn’t have commitments or have to work. Bah. The whole thing made me want to bake. I had
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’m out of town working this week so I thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce you to not only one of my favourite photographers, but also, my good friend Sylvia, who graciously agreed to write a guest post for me. Sylvia and I “met” back in 2004/5 online through bookcrossing.com and discovered a mutual love of books, food and photography (and especially
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
I have to confess, I’m a wee bit frustrated at the moment! Things are good right now: I have as much work as I can physically take on, which as a freelancer, is a great thing! I am excited to be taking part in Vancouver’s Bake for the Quake Event in a few weeks with my friend Elle – we have some delicious goodies planned!
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
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