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...

Throughout my childhood I had eczema, which if you’re unfamiliar with it, generally means that your skin is drier than a normal persons. It manifests itself in very different ways in different people, though. Some get rashes, others don’t, I for example got tiny...

The first time I ever had burrata was in a pizza. There was this amazing wood fired pizza chain in Los Angeles that made this insanely tasty pizza that consisted of burrata and caramelized onions piled atop tomato sauce and baked until the crust...

This is the first spring in my life that I can call myself a homeowner, and it’s definitely been an adventure so far. The main reason Jeremy and I moved up to Portland was to be closer to our families, but coming in at...

Tomorrow is my birthday and I’ll be on a plane at 6 am for work out of town, but I was able to celebrate earlier this week with family and friends. I’m still in the process of remodeling the living/dining room areas of our...

After months of hard work and utter madness, the kitchen remodel finally finished at the end of November. And after the craziness of the holidays and the bustling new year, I finally have time to talk about it. When we moved in, the kitchen...

A little over a week ago Carey and I hosted our Asheville First We Eat workshop. We stayed in a beautiful home nestled in the foothills of Cold Mountain, right between an old red barn and a babbling stream. There was food, photography lessons,...