My farmers market is back and I couldn’t be more excited! Living in Southern California I have access to a wide range of local and organic foods year round, which is great, and I can find a close-by farmers market to go to almost any day of the week, year round. Yes I know, it just isn’t fair. My favorite farmers market is walking distance from my home, but it is only open April through October. So for five months out of the year I have to go elsewhere. My farmers market is back! [Read more...]
practicing knife cuts at home
I will be graduating from culinary school in five weeks! Yay! So, for the next five weeks I thought it would be fun to take you through my culinary school career for iPhonetography Fridays. Here are photos from my first class. We didn’t get to actually cook anything until we passed that first class. What we did all day every day was learn all about sanitation, how our taste buds work and are affected by various flavors, we made mayonnaise, and the thing we spent most of our time on was classic knife cuts. [Read more...]
I recently had the opportunity to help cater two birthday parties for little girls, and I had so much fun! The first was Fairy-themed, and the other one was Hello Kitty-themed. For the fairy-theme party I was trying to think of little touches to give the whole party a fairy feel. I came across an idea for fruit skewers and thought topping them with a slice of starfruit would be so cute and the perfect finishing touch for a fairy wand. [Read more...]
Several years ago I began researching natural alternatives to food dyes. My quest began with trying to find new ways to color frosting for birthday cakes. There are natural food dyes that work well, but I wanted to figure out how to make my own food dyes. There are so many foods that bleed their color willingly so it is fun to experiment. This year I decided to try dyeing Easter Eggs with natural colors. I started with some of the foods I already knew would dye items willingly and easily (like blueberry and pomegranate juice) and then went to the internet for more ideas. There are so many ideas out there, of course, so I had to try the ones I could easily get my hands on! I spent three days and five dozen eggs (thanks Mom!) playing with these ingredients. I still have more things I want to try out, but for this year I feel I have a pretty good list of natural Easter Egg dyes. [Read more...]
I have a big pile of food magazines in my living room that I just haven’t taken the time to flip through. Piles bug me, a lot, so I have been taking a few magazines with me everywhere I go hoping to dwindle down my pile. I can’t just toss them without looking through them! I recently looked through Martha Stewart Living December issue… in March. While flipping through the magazine my mom saw the word “clementine” and made me stop flipping. She loves clementines and wanted to make the Clementine Granita. We agreed that all the recipes on that page looked yummy and that we would make them for family dinner. So she kept the recipe cards in her purse. [Read more...]
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