Chocolate chips aren’t the easiest thing in the world to shoot, particularly if they have been exposed to any temperature shifts (like sitting in a cabinet over the summer). It’s perfectly fine to eat when them if they have bloomed, particularly if you are cooking with them. However, a photo will make any blooming look [...]

Are you a cookbook person? I am. Actually, more specifically, I am a book person. I love books. I love bookstores. I love books on shelves. I love book covers. And cookbooks, especially those with beautiful photography, are really one of my biggest weaknesses. But I have to tell you that my cookbooks have been extremely under used, and I’m quite embarrassed by it. Because as much as I love books, finding one specific thing out of many, many books is too hard. It’s just so much easier to grab my laptop, fire up google or even better, food blog search, and find a recipe that is exactly what I’ve been looking for. So the books, sit there, on the shelf, untouched. It is too sad.

I’m becoming a big fan of shiso since Amy planted it in my garden this summer. It’s minty, grassy flavor is just the thing on a hot spell like the one we are having this week (seriously, 103F in Seattle? I did not move here for weeks like this!) So, I was happy to help out with Design Sponge’s In The Kitchen with this recipe for Ginger Shiso Syrup.

I know celebrating Cinco de Mayo has become a much bigger thing here in the US, but hey, any chance to have a party is good enough for me and there’s not much of a better way to celebrate it than with margaritas. Except, maybe with margarita doughnuts! Imagine for a second. Fresh, warm cake [...]

I live in a world where I don’t think much about the prices of food. Much of the food that we have around the house is left-over from some photo shoot I’ve done and in that world, all I’m worried about is whether it is the right product and whether it looks great. Another large [...]