When I was a kid, I was such a food nerd, I got Bon Appetit instead of some pimple magazine for teen girls (yikes, atrocious at any age). I would pour over each issue, reading the recipes, visualizing how to do each step. They were the protocols (as we call them in the lab) for...

(This was cross-posted to Humble Garden) (Homemade chevre cheese) We are enjoying our independence from the food chain. We get our eggs and our milk (and now cheese) from our backyard. We eat our salads from our backyard. If you don’t now, what are you waiting for?! If you think food prices are high now,...

(Bisquick pancakes with maple syrup) I promise, this pancake jag will come to an end. These were just too fantastic to pass up shooting tho. I call this the Apotheosis of Pancakes because these pancakes are worthy of worship and awe. This morning my oldest daughter decided to make her own pancakes. For these she...

(A PDF version of this lesson is available) As we have been talking about technical and practical details in the first three lessons, I thought I would take us in an artistic direction with this week’s lesson on Composition. What is Composition? This is a fantastically huge topic that can not really be discussed in...

Jolly Gingerbread Cookies I am on the Dean & Deluca emailing list and I have to say it is both a torture and an inspiration! Everything is WAY too expensive for me but just about all of it is something I could make or have fun trying to make. Last year I had lots of...

This is the review post of the third week of our Food Photography 101 series. As was previously the case, several people contributed their results to the Food Photo 101 flickr pool. This week’s contributors were: Curt LaRecetteDuJour NJYar Big Mill BB As you remember from this last Tuesday’s post “FP101-3: Depth of Field”, we...

Two days ago I posted about this internet meme called Pay It Forward that I am participating in and I just wanted you all to know that we have two people on the hook and that means there is one spot left! Here is what I am talking about: To the first commenter of today’s...

[This post first aired on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network] [I have included a small glossary of terms at the bottom of this post for some of the words that we may have heard a 100 times but never really took the time to look up.] I recently had...

Nicole over at Pinch My Salt is participating in “Pay It Forward“, an internet meme that is really appropriate for this time of year. This idea is based on the movie “Pay It Forward” that made me cry buckets. I am going to play along too! The essential idea is: When someone does you a...

Yummmm, sugar cookies. I know its only November but the holidays are really just around the corner. Once Halloween is gone, it seems like its a full-on sprint into the winter holidays. If you have the time, one nice way to open the season is to make a batch of beautiful sugar cookies. Perhaps a...