The heat makes me lazy. Once summer comes around and I am freshly reminded of the fact that my home has no air conditioning, I find it hard to peel myself from the cool sticky leather of my basement’s sofa. I have to...

Those of you who follow my blog and instagram regularly know that I expanded my little brood of animals a little over a month ago with the addition of 8 baby chicks. I’ve always wanted to own my own chickens, not just for their...

I have another awesome event coming up that I’m really excited to share with you guys. I’m hosting a pop-up summer dinner series here in Portland with friends Christiann and Suzanne.The first dinner takes place on Saturday July 18th; we’ll be making an insane...

    I am *so* excited to announce that registration is now open for my Croatia styling, photography, and truffle foraging workshop. Yes, you read that correctly, there will be a guided excursion into the Croatian forest for hands-on truffle foraging (and eventual truffle...

A couple weeks ago Carey and I held our Cape Cod First We Eat workshop; we got to meet so many outstanding people and had the most brilliant time shooting, styling, and making and eating cheese. It was my first time in the state...

I made this lemon blueberry cheesecake a few weeks ago and have been wanting to post it realllllly badly since then because cheesecake = delicious, but things have been really hectic here. This past weekend was my and Carey’s Cape Cod First We Eat...

  Ever since the hint of spring appeared, I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time out in the garden shoving the 7 cubic yards of compost I ordered and transplanting all my seedlings. There’s something about the sun shining and the warmer weather...

With all the traveling and long work hours I’ve been keeping up with lately, I haven’t been paying much attention to what I’ve been eating. I’ll just kind of eat whatever’s around because I’ve been so focused on work that I haven’t really put...

A little over a month ago I held a food photography & styling workshop here in Portland. It felt so good to have one in my hometown, and it was such a wonderful way to meet other local foodies and photographers like myself. The...

Life’s funny sometimes. You plan and you plan and you plan, and then you realize your plans melt into your other plans and you try to figure out a way to make it all work, and somehow it does, but in the end all...

I wanted to try my hand at a Mother’s Day breakfast in bed recipe to practice for surprising my own mother, but she ended up going to Mexico this year with my dad (their first trip south of the border, exciting!) for Mother’s Day...

It’s been well over a week since my last post, and that’s because life’s been a bit crazy around these parts. I was out of town for work 31 of the past 45 days, then once I got home it was back to the...