Author: L
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Stupid Ice Tricks
I saw this food styling technique in Food & Wine a few issues back, and absolutely loved it… cool shapes of ice with a frozen treat inside. Brilliant, and so…
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Beautiful Days and Brown Butter Cakes
I’ll let you in on a secret. It’s not really all that dark and rainy in the Pacific Northwest. Sure, it rains sometimes. Sure, it’s grey and cloudy sometimes. Particularly…
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Chocolate Pudding and Meringue Spoons for SHF # 27
When I first saw David’s announcement for Sugar High Friday this month, I knew I was in trouble. It wasn’t hard to come up with brand name chocolates, it was…
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Herby Trumpet Pasta with Orange Caper Sauce
I received a copy of Pamela John’s 50 Great Pasta Sauces to review some time ago from the publisher. I cook and eat a lot of pasta and new sauce…
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Conference of Food Photography and Styling at Boston University
Boston University has recently announced a new conference for food photographers and stylists. Stylists John Carafoli and Lisa Golden Schroeder (fooddesigns.com) chair the Boston U Gastronomy Masters program, and have…
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A simple citrus salad
Whoever said that you shouldn’t take shortcuts in cooking never had to make lunch everyday. There are days when nothing can stop me from making every ounce of a recipe…
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Workflow, Take Two: Shooting Tethered and Capture One
One of my early posts on Still Life With walked through my workflow of taking food shots in my studio (ie, my kitchen). Well, I recently realized how much a…
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Citrus Curd Tarts
For the life of me, I can never remember that citrus is not a summer fruit. Perhaps it is the bright sunny nature that fools me. But, perhaps that is…
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Ice Cream Clouds… otherwise known as Honey Elderflower Glacé
Imagine a world of ice cream clouds, all fluffy and cold. Maybe a little cherub would float by, handing out spoons. There might even be a waffle cone tree. It’s…
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Honey Walnut Tofu and Mango Wontons
“Mom, you must really like honey.” said my daughter after dinner last night. And, she’s right. I do really like honey although that in itself doesn’t explain the all-out honey…
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Honey Roasted Chicken
I have to admit. I was daunted by a chicken. I don’t normally cook whole chicken, as everyone in my family fights for the dark meat, and it’s typically just…
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She's as sweet as…
…tupelo honey Shes an angel of the first degree Shes as sweet as tupelo honey Just like honey from the bee I was stuck in traffic on my way home…