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Happy Labor Day weekend everyone!
For #SundaySupper this week, we are celebrating Labor Day Cookouts! I knew I wanted to share something sweet, so I immediately started thinking of easy desserts.
Well, you can't get much easier than this: frozen chocolate bananas. Our family is fairly new to frozen bananas
New
Sweet Cherry Peppers Relish
I'm quite the sandwich fanatic. And while I do make them at home, I actually prefer a sandwich that someone else makes for me in a sandwhich shop or deli. Quite often, the sandwich places we go to have a sweet & slightly spicy pepper relish that David and I are always sure to get.
About a week ago, we were planning on grilling some of the Farmer John Smoked Sausages that I had sent to me and I had this relish on my mind. We headed to the grocery store and I looked in the pickle and
Smoked Sausage Nachos Recipe
My Favorite Grilling Photos
Sweet & Spicy Barbecue Sauce
I do use bottled barbecue sauces, but making your own homemade barbecue sauce is soooo easy.
This recipe is for our favorite -- it's sweet, it's spicy...we love it. I like it the best with chicken. It's the sauce I used on my Grilled Butterflied Whole Chicken and even typing about it right now makes me crave it!
Venturing into Food Styling
I've officially made it through my 5th week of my food photography course. Woohoo!
This week, our homework was to use our food styling skills to photograph three grilled meals, that were finished and plated. We were to use a variety of angles, staging, and lighting methods.
I thought this week would be SO much easier than last weeks shots of the actual grilling in process, but it really wasn't. However, I do find it more satisfying to play with staging and the styling food. I'm really enjoy
Veggie Loaded Pasta Bake
I've heard a lot about how good kale is for you, but other than making kale chips once or twice, I have no experience with it. I spotted this recipe in the January 2012 issue of Better Homes and Garden and I liked that it included kale. It seemed that with the cheese and pasta (very similar to my own macaroni and cheese recipe), this might be a great way of introducing kale to the kids as part of an actual dinner. The question was: would they like it?
Photographing Food on the Grill
I'm into the 4th week of my food photography course, courtesy of Sears Grilling. This week, our assignment was to photograph three meals, in the process of being grilled, from a variety of angles, lighting, etc.
This assignment wasn't about the steps or the recipe, it was just about the actual grilling, so please excuse the lack of recipes and step-by-step instructions. I do hope you'll enjoy seeing some of the shots I captured:
Instagram Week in Review (July 15-23, 2012)
Since I'm taking lots of photos and sharing them on Instragram, I thought it would be appropriate for me to start doing an "Instagram Week in Review" like my friend Amanda is doing over at FridayLoveSong.net. She's even got a free Photoshop PSD file for download if you'd like to do the same (you can find it here).
Instagram Week in Review:
1. On the last day of Comic-Con, I bought an art print from my favorite booth in the exhibit hall, Steam Crow.
2. On our way home from Comic-Con, we
