Dacor’s Modernist Collection at Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival

Posted on May 9, 2017 • No comments yet

A couple of weekends ago, Dacor invited me to the Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival to experience their new Modernist Collection. There were many cooking demos, dinners and cocktail parties to attend that showcased the new design and features of the Modernist Collection appliances. I have cooked with Dacor appliances in the past always to great results and I was eager to see the new design and performance elements. As I suspected, I was not disappointed.

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Posted under: appetizer, fish & meat, Uncategorized, vegetables

Ingredients: Decor

how to build a story with David Prior and Ditte Isager | Connemara, Ireland

Posted on April 5, 2017 • No comments yet

I love learning. I could be the eternal student if I had the lifestyle, time and money for it. And I am moved by stories – why do people do what they do and how are all these stories a landscape of a bigger cultural movement?

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Posted under: food photography, food styling, foraging, spring, workshop

Beyond the plate | a blogger cookbook

Posted on March 21, 2017 • No comments yet

Spring has finally arrived although it sure doesn’t look like it in Seattle where the grey skies and rain seem to not want to leave us. But I am excited to announce the release of Beyond The Plate – a cookbook compiling recipes from bloggers all around the world. My recipes, gluten-free ricotta gnudi with peas, favas and spring garlic, as well as my classic, pear and hazelnut frangipane tart.

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Burnt milk | a video collaboration with Tara Sgroi

Posted on March 20, 2017 • No comments yet

Burnt milk | a video collaboration with Tara Sgroi from Aran Goyoaga on Vimeo.

Last week, I spent the day with my friend Tara Sgroi. We started talking about how powerful the sense of smell is in the memory side of the brain. How it can instantly bring us back to a moment in time. She asked me what my strongest memory of smell is and immediately I said “burnt milk!”. So many hours spent next to the stove in a pastry shop where spilled and burnt milk are inevitable.

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Posted under: breakfast, food photography, food styling, gluten free, grains, spring, tarts

Ingredients: arroz con leche, cinnamon, dairy, flowers, milk, pink peppercorn, rice, spices, vanilla

Announcing a photography retreat in the French Basque Country

Posted on February 22, 2017 • No comments yet

This summer, I will be returning to my homeland and teaching a food styling and photography workshop in the French Basque Country, only a short drive away from where I grew up. I taught here last year and it was a really incredible experience to be in my surroundings with people from all over the world.

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Posted under: autumn, food photography, food styling, France, gluten free, summer, tarts, workshop

Ingredients: almonds, apple, frangipane, hazelnuts, nuts