Archive for breakfast

Chocolate chip, buckwheat and sea salt cookies

Posted on May 28, 2015 • 2 comments

I recently did some recipe development for Aloha using two of their products and I wanted to share them with you - cookies and a breakfast bowl. And nothing wrong with eating them together either. Aloha prides itself in products that are organically grown, free of artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners, tested beyond government regulations, ...

Posted under: breakfast, cakes, gluten free, grains, spring, tarts

Ingredients: buckwheat, chocolate, fleur de sel, granola, nectarines, strawberries, yogurt

Roasted broccoli rabe tostada with avocado, fried egg and chimichurri

Posted on April 29, 2015 • 9 comments

Everything is shifting from winter’s dark jewel colors to bright greens at our farmer’s market. Flowering greens, tangled shoots and tender roots give way to the new season and a lighter palate. I recently re-discovered broccoli rabe as I worked with Andy Boy on some recipe development. Nutritionally packed, we all know that, but also ...

Posted under: breakfast, dairy free, food photography, food styling, gluten free, salads, spring, Uncategorized, vegetables

Ingredients: avocado, broccoli rabe, cilantro, eggs, herbs

Lentils with mushrooms, kale and eggs from Ashley Rodriguez’s “Date Night In”

Posted on January 28, 2015 • 6 comments

French lentils with kale, mushrooms and eggs | Cannelle et Vanille

I am so excited to share with you that my friend Ashley Rodriguez of award-winning blog Not Without Salt has published her first book Date Night In. I have been cooking from it since the day it arrived and I cannot rave enough about it. The chicken and pumpkin seed posole has become part of ...

Posted under: breakfast, food photography, food styling, gluten free, grains, vegetables, winter

Ingredients: cheese, eggs, heavy cream, kale, lentils, mushrooms

Citrus cake for the winter blues

Posted on January 14, 2015 • 13 comments

Citrus and yogurt cake | Cannelle et Vanille

A few days ago I received the most generous gift from my friend Terisa in California. A box filled with infinite varieties of citrus, guava and persimmons, which grow right on her property. See the array on my last post. Quite remarkable. Also quite hard to visualize given the lack of sunshine in the Pacific ...

Posted under: breakfast, cakes, food photography, food styling, gluten free, winter

Ingredients: almonds, citrus, lemon, orange, rose, yogurt

pumpkin brown-butter cakes

Posted on December 11, 2014 • 1 comment

I love winter for its silence. I have this need to regenerate, so I hibernate. Partly due to exhaustion, but mostly because of darkness. I feel a lack of words lately and I mostly show the world around me through images. So I leave you with them. The images of snow and these brown-butter, spiced-pumpkin ...

Posted under: autumn, breakfast, cakes, gluten free

Ingredients: brown butter, cinnamon, dairy, ginger, nutmeg, pumpkin, squash