Author: L

  • Just Plum Good Bread

    Just Plum Good Bread

    First it was pears, now it’s plums… although they aren’t my plums, they are my neighbors. I got a big beautiful bag of Italian prune plums next week, about 5…

  • Kitchen Sink Green Chile Stew

    Kitchen Sink Green Chile Stew

    Serious New Mexican food is a part of my heritage. Despite never actually living in New Mexico for more than a month or so at a time, most of my…

  • Vintage Finds

    Vintage Finds

    One of my obsessions since starting this whole food styling and photography gig has been finding unique table and cookware to use as props. If I were a professional prop…

  • Luck & Melons

    Luck & Melons

    How lucky am I? I got to spend a delightful evening with Bea & P having dinner in Seattle. We were supposed to go to my new obsession, Sitka &…

  • Last Days of Summer Ribs & Potatoes

    Last Days of Summer Ribs & Potatoes

    I tend to wax poetically on and on about Labor Day, the coming of Fall and the last hoorah of Summer. In reality, we have many, many days of beautiful…

  • Start your own Food Photo Group

    After I got back from Matt’s, I realized how much meeting a group of folks that share my interests in food styling and photography meant to me. It was just…

  • September Still Life With Flickr Theme: To Go

    September Still Life With Flickr Theme: To Go

    Oh wow. It’s September already. When did that happen? Er, yesterday I guess! So, that means I’m officially late with this month’s theme. I’d say that it’s because I was…

  • Happy Belated Blog Day!

    Oops. I’m off traveling, and missed the fact that it was blog day a few days ago. Actually, I was completely oblivious to the event until I got such a…

  • Five things to eat before you die

    Five things to eat before you die

    Matt tagged me for this meme created by the incomparable Melissa of Traveler’s Lunchbox over a week ago, and I’ve been all tangled up in knots about it… not because…

  • Food and Beverage Photography class in Vancouver, BC

    Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia offers a very extensive photography certification program geared toward freelance photographers wishing to hone their skills or start to specialize. I just noticed that…

  • SHF: Spiced Pear Preserves

    SHF: Spiced Pear Preserves

    If you have a well-producing fruit tree in your yard, you’ll relate to my current state of mind about pears. I LOVE pears. I love them fresh, slurped out of…

  • An Afternoon at the Studio with Matt Armendariz

    An Afternoon at the Studio with Matt Armendariz

    Tucked into a little neighborhood along the western edge of Route 66 is a place… a magical place. A place where memories of meals and moments are captured. It’s full…