chocolate shavings

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor at 1/30s, f/7.1

used to make chocolate rum balls

after the party

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor at f/4.0, 1/60s

Dallas, Texas

used to make boeuf bourguignon

me want cookie

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor at f/2.8, 1/200s
Chocolate chip cookie recipe

If life is a bowl of cherries...

If life is a bowl of cherries, then I need a second helping.

Hood River cherries from Central Market. The best bing cherries I've ever tasted.

Nikon D300 with 28mm Nikkor, at 1/30s, f/4.0

Click for a recipe using these Hood River Cherries

prawns with poached egg

Nikon D300 with 28mm Nikkor at 1/30s, f/2.8

brunch at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas

beef carpaccio

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor

Abacus restaurant, Dallas

crown of figs

Nikon D300 with 50mm at 1/60s, f/6.3

frangipane tart with figs

sage

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor

Sage: a stoic or wise person; an ornamental and medicinal plant of the mint family.

Olympics 2012--soccer

Nikon D300 with 18-70mm Nikkor at 1/80s, f/7.1

my take on the olympics, because lego and chocolate make everything better.

springtime cookies

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor at 1/100s, f/2.2

Sugar cookies with chocolate ganache.

shabu shabu

Nikon D300 with 50 mm Nikkor

shabu shabu at Nobu Restaurant

Dallas, Texas

pandoro

a buttery, sweet, italian bread. Just before eating, you place the bread in a bag with some icing sugar and shake it all together.

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor at 1/30, f/3.5, ISO 720

Edmonton, Canada

carving the roast

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor

Edmonton, Canada

a box full of love (and chocolate)

Nikon D300 with 1/60s, f/4.0

brownies with chocolate ganache and peppermint candy

Dallas, Texas

macaronnage, macaronner, macarons

you know a cookie is serious when comes with its own vocabulary!

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor

Dallas, Texas

Rusty Taco

Nikon D300 with 28mm Nikkor at 1/160s, f/4.0

Rusty Taco on Harry Hines, Dallas, Texas

State Fair food offerings for 2011

Nikon D300 with 18-200 mm VR NIkkor

fried sauerkraut and the winner of best tate, fried buffalo chicken flapjacks

Dallas, Texas

ice cream for a hot, summer day

Nikon D300 with 18-200mm VR at 1/60s, f/5.6

Saint-Emilion, France

crevettes roses

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor at 1/30s, f/5.0

Les Magnils-Reigniers, France.

cannelés de bordeaux

Nikon D300 with 50mm Nikkor lens at 1/30s, f/2.0

Bordeaux, France

Cannelés or canelés are local pastry from the Bordeaux region of France. They have a caramelized outer crust with a bread pudding-like center.