While I am a tad skeptical of the wisdom of Dr. Bonnie Henry’s latest directive, if we’re lucky, we’ll be able to gather outdoors in small groups and share food before the summer is out. So as I dream up dinner party menus and bring out the summer shoes (scored nearly new Birkenstocks for $3 at the thrift store this weekend thank you very much) it feel like an excellent time to write about planning and outdoor dinner party.
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Vancouver Island Wild Food
I’ve been casting about for a personal project that feels exciting, and I realized that all I can think about lately is food (I bet you are shocked). To fully embrace it, I’ve decided my new personal project will be documenting Vancouver Island wild food.
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Since we are solidly out of the Persephone Period, I’m seeing people everywhere from backyard gardeners to local farms starting their seeds and I am JEALOUS. Since we’re in a temporary spot right now and don’t have any garden space of our own, I thought sharing some tips on seed starting in small places would make me feel better.
[Read more…] about Seed Starting in Small PlacesMarch Print – Vancouver Island Food
It appears that it’s March now (MARCH omg) so that means it’s time for a March print! A small ode to Vancouver Island food, this month’s print builds on the Island theme from February (I know it’s the honeymoon phase, but I cannot get enough of the Cowichan Valley and I can’t quite believe we’re living here). This month the focus is on food, in the form of wild mussels. I’m not positive, but I believe these are Pacific blue mussels.
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It’s the next installment of food photography and kitchen stories! If you’d like to see the last post, find kitchen stories pt 1 here.
I had a lot of roommates in my twenties, but the people who became close friends and stayed that way after we moved out were the ones who wanted to spend most of our time at home in the kitchen.
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It has been awhile since I posted the brownies food photo/kitchen stories shoot with dear friend Leah, but I have been slowly plugging away at my friends and food photography project (or I was, until Covid made it ill-advised to be inside with people outside my household), and I’m thrilled to share these pre-pandemic photos from gnocchi-making with Estlin McPhee.
[Read more…] about Food Photography & Kitchen StoriesChristmas Camera Experiments
I decided to use Christmas as a chance to experiment with my new (actually quite old, from the 50s) camera, the Super Ricohflex! I shot a combo of my favourite colour film along with a few different kinds of black and white film.
[Read more…] about Christmas Camera ExperimentsSeed and Nourish Brand Shoot
I looked forward to this shoot for months, and when it arrived we had the perfect fall light in one of Carissa’s beautiful boulevard gardens! She designs and builds kitchen gardens for all kinds of different spaces, and is a font of knowledge about everything from companion planting to cover cropping.
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