(Banana tart with soybean praline base, enrobed with banana chocolate sauce) Nuts, especially peanuts and walnuts, are lethal for my oldest child. They are also delicious, found in many of the desserts that make life worth living, and are almost impossible to simulate. I do not like peanut butter, don’t miss it, but I have...

I love dim-sum. I know thats not a terribly original thing to say because its likely that 2/3s of the world’s population loves dim sum. While the lion’s share of that 2/3 live where dim sum started, I am stuck in a dim sum wasteland. In fact, I think that dim sum is more available...

I apologize for not posting much this last week. Its been rather hectic! To broaden my photographic learning experience, I am the second shooter in a few weddings this summer with this fantastic guy Rob Brown, his site is Rob Brown Photography in case you need the friendliest wedding photographer in New England. I am...

[Like me, you may not have known that the merry month of May is actually National BBQ Month! While it is apropos to this post, it was not planned. Let the grilling commence!] Now that it is warming up, I have been thinking about grilling but the thought of another dried out chicken breast made...

I have so many more photos I have taken at the Dole & Bailey Northeast Family Farms roadshow up in Maine, its been a shame to not share more of them. Some of them have been hard to wrap around a cogent topic but, after some further study of the photostream from that day, a...

What you see here is 100% organic pasta made from black soybeans, a product of a company called Nutrition Kitchen. I picked up my pack at The Living Earth in Worcester, MA, when I was doing my organic shopping. I got it because I wanted to try something new. Since it is made from one...

A couple of days ago, I did the “on black” shoot where some pears saw the light. Those pears were also part of our breakfast yesterday. I found some delightful Bob’s Red Mill buttermilk pancake mix I wanted to try out and it made some amazing pancakes. I sliced one Korean pear and two of...

Growing up, my mom would feed us homemade whole wheat bread and forbade sodas and sweets and junk foods of all types. We had our own garden (an acre plot in Iowa, anything would grow in that dirt) and we ate out of it in the summers. My mom grew up on a farm so...

[Sorry for the annoying copyright symbols on these images but there are too many people downloading and stealing these images. I am working on a downloadable for-a-fee document where you can get the whole "picture" and I do not lose all photo rights and revenue.] Arepa de huevo is a Colombian food that I remember...

(Sample of pan seared tuna) If you can believe it, I have even more photos from the IBSS. This set today is from a cooking demonstration at the cooking theater that day. The Phillips Seafood Company had some of their corporate chefs cooking up some of their products. My feet were screaming for a rest...