Category Archives: Cook and Eat

An Abundence of Apples

Posted on May 12, 2012 by L

If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend being friends with a farmer. Especially one that grows perfect heads of butterleaf lettuce like this: and brings you specialty crops like heirloom zucchetta to shoot for the food photography class you are teaching together online.Thanks Ron! I also highly recommend having a client who grows apples, [...] Continue reading →

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All About Glazing

Posted on January 27, 2012 by L

When you buy a cookbook, how many recipes do you typically cook from it? For me, even with really good cookbooks that I dog-ear throughout, I’m lucky if I get around to actually make two or three of the recipes. Some of these books I would swear I am going to cook out of every [...] Continue reading →

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Food Styling and Photography workshop, May 2012 in France

Posted on January 26, 2012 by L

I have some exciting news. It’s been a while now since my friend Bea and I started talking about running a food styling and photography workshop together. It took us some time to find a time when it both fitted our schedules. Yet we had found an amazing place to run it. In France! We [...] Continue reading →

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Busy as A Bee

Posted on October 24, 2011 by L

If you’ve been following my good friend and fellow doughnut cookbook author Jess Thomson’s fantastic blog, Hogwash, you’ll know that the past few months have found me all around Washington taking photos for the next very cool cookbook Jess is working on, Dishing Up Washington. Continue reading →

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A Pie for Mikey

Posted on August 12, 2011 by L

I wasn’t really planning a post for today, but my heart and head have silently been with Jennie all week. When I heard the news of her husband’s unexpected death, I went numb.

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Roasting a Pig and Other Tales of Summer

Posted on August 3, 2011 by L

Wow. Has it really been a month since my last post? And is it really already August? Summer seems to finally have shown up around here, although the cool, misty mornings might lead you to believe otherwise. By late evening though, with the long summer sun still clinging to the sky, there is no doubt. People, there is nothing like the Northwest in the summer when it finally appears.

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Happy Independence Day

Posted on July 3, 2011 by L

It’s July folks… how did that happen? I knew that June was going to be a whirlwind of a month. I was right. June definitely kept me on my toes, and I have a lot to share with you on that, but for now, I’m going to indulge in a few days of relaxation and simply leave you with this little recipe that you might enjoy for your 4th if, like I do, you have a kitchen simply overflowing with berries.

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