Writing

  • Designing Food: An Interview with Lisa Golden Schroeder

    Designing Food: An Interview with Lisa Golden Schroeder

    Dessert Parfait Photo © Mike Jensen Taste of the NFL cookbook, a fundraiser for hunger relief Styling by Lisa Golden Schroeder For quite some time now, Lisa Golden Schroeder, one…

  • Three Platings of Farro Pudding

    Three Platings of Farro Pudding

    Is it just me, of have you also noticed farro popping up on all sorts of menus lately. Maybe it’s just a Seattle thing, but it seems that all the…

  • Sweet and Savory Crab Wontons

    Sweet and Savory Crab Wontons

    One of my fondest food-related memories is of discovering that I actually love fish. For years, I passionately hated any non-shellfish seafood. That all changed when I had my first…

  • Sitka & Spruce, Take 100.

    Sitka & Spruce, Take 100.

    I miss my kitchen. I’ve been working on a restaurant project now that continues through the next month, and eating out almost every night has been a requirement. And the…

  • Sweet Soup

    Sweet Soup

    Right now I am up to my eyeballs in citrus… three varieties of mandarins, and a box full of gorgeous cocktail and Oroblanco grapefruit left over from a shoot. Don’t…

  • Strobist On Assignment: Mac & Cheese

    If you spend much time looking at photo related blogs, you’ve probably already stumbled across Strobist, one man’s terrific attempt to teach flash photography from start to finish. This site…

  • Be Still My Beeting Heart: SHF #28

    Be Still My Beeting Heart: SHF #28

    “You put what in the chocolate cake???!!!” There are those of you out there that can’t stand beets, and those of you who love them. Even those who are passionate…

  • A Sort of Banh Mi Bruschetta

    A Sort of Banh Mi Bruschetta

    No, don’t worry. I haven’t forgotten about this blog! It’s just taken me a few days to get back in the swing of things from our Fernie trip. That, and…

  • STW Challenge for February: Splish-Splash. Drip-Drop.

    STW Challenge for February: Splish-Splash. Drip-Drop.

    I have many ideas for upcoming Still Life With challenges. But I couldn’t resist making February’s challenge all about messy, moving food when I saw this little clip on DIY…

  • Last Call for Still Life With White Theme!

    We’re on our last couple days for the White theme. Due to travel on my part, I’m giving everyone till Friday to get their white images in… then I’ll be…

  • Road Trip!

    Road Trip!

    Cam and I are heading out on a road trip to eastern British Columbia tomorrow morning to try out skiing some different northwest slopes… those of Fernie, BC. It’s nine…

  • Sweet, Sweet Lime Soufflé

    Sweet, Sweet Lime Soufflé

    There are many things to love about diving in mouth first into the food world. One of my favorites is the discovery of new items that I never even new…