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Desserts for Breakfast
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TGIF: summer memories, in film

When I went to Yosemite last year, I took along a disposable waterproof camera in addition to the dSLR. Since my dSLR isnt weatherproofed, I didnt want to ruin it when we climbed too close to the int...

6 days ago

Almond and Blackberry Cake, with a hint of chocolate

To all of the women out there: Happy belated Mothers Day! Not just to my mom but to every one of you who has taken care of me, nurtured me, supported me, given me secret family apple pie recipes and ...

15 may 12

Strawberry Passionfruit Tart

This weekend was packed with so many birthdays and trying to squeeze in developing, baking, and eating two birthday desserts between birthday dinners and work and friends visiting from afar and geari...

09 may 12

TGIF: Italy memories to hold in my hand

Too often I find myself completely forgetting about moments and travels and memories because the photos are all buried away in some nondescript folder in some other nondescript folder on my external ...

04 may 12

Announcing sated magazine! and Earl Grey Dark Chocolate Cupcakes and a giveaway!

Grab a cupcake, have it ready, because today is a celebration of a BIG announcement. Okay, are you ready? Because here we go......! May I proudly announce a project that has been nearly a year in the...

01 may 12 1 person likes this

TGIF: Taiwan Market Scenes

Ive got quite the little backlog of photos building up on my hard drive that I had forgotten until now about this set, from my Taiwan trip back in January. I was there in time for the big C...

27 apr 12

Lemon Verbena and Olallieberry Crumble Muffins

Muffins! Its a wee tad unbelievable and insane that I actually have never made muffins (from scratch--plenty of box stuff as a kid) before! Over the weekend, the talented Julie of always with butter ...

24 apr 12

Sugared Coconut Raspberries and Rhubarb Polenta Cake

The single most important thing in this post: sugared coconut raspberries are like crack. Its sort of a long and rambling story to get to the sugared coconut raspberries, though.... (You might want t...

18 apr 12

Rhubarb tarts with orange-honey fromage blanc

Its been insanely busy here in the studio working non-stop on a big upcoming project that I promise Ill divulge more about soooooooon, so personal desserts that Ive been whipping up just for me have ...

12 apr 12

Chocolate Jam Sandwich Cookies, and more Rome

I really hope you all arent Italy-out-ed yet--I promise that Im coming to the end of my Italy trip photos! It just seemed that breaking them up into individual stories made for the best approach so a...

06 apr 12

TGIF

Today I climbed a tree on a whim! Its been years since Ive actually been in a tree, and its remarkably fun, acting like a kid again. Even better when said tree has a bunch of fresh oranges for the pi...

30 mar 12

Spicy tomato and egg pizza, with lemony broccoli rabe

Lots of desserts have been coming out of my kitchen in the past few days, but theyre all for an upcoming project that Im working on (youve seen a few if you follow me on Instagram). So for a bit of v...

26 mar 12 1 person likes this

TGIF: Managing shadows

[click on photo for a larger image] While looking through my shots for the lemon baba cake, I noticed that I had some good examples of images with and without a scrim, so I thought Id demonstrate sha...

23 mar 12

Triple lemon baba cake and the Amalfi Coast

This is a color story.  ...which is basically how I experienced the Amalfi Coast. Its a land of blues and greens, providing the perfect backdrop for the citrus groves that dot its hillsides. Bab...

20 mar 12

TGIF

Shots from a recent Food & Wine job: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], + an outtake above. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

16 mar 12

Orange-Olive Oil and Chocolate Cake

Arriving in Naples, shuffling off the train from Rome to catch the local train to the Amalfi Coast was a highly anticlimactic moment for me. You climb off of this very cosmopolitan, decked-out Trenit...

13 mar 12

Spinach, Tomato, and Tortellini Soup -- and Rome.

When Im traveling, not many desserts get made, since desserts usually require ingredients and tools beyond the scope of the rental flats that Ive been living out of for the past few weeks. --Plus, gi...

08 mar 12

Postcards: Scenes from a Garden

2012 so far has been quite the Year of Travel. Ive spent more time logged in airplanes that I probably have in my own kitchen at home--hence, if youll excuse me, the shortage of recipes as of late. T...

27 feb 12

TGIF: Italy recommendations, anyone?

Things are a bit crazy and topsy turvy here at the DfB headquarters lately, but in the meantime, the blog is featured over on Harvard Common Presss food blog blog (oh my, how meta!), BlogEats, this w...

24 feb 12

TGIF

The cloudy, overcast afternoons we had at the beginning of this week were filled with beautiful low light,  perfect for Mendelssohn and sweet milk tea. More rain and Mendelssohn to come this wee...

17 feb 12

Passionfruit Tapioca and Lemon Cream Tarts

Happy Valentines Day! Or otherwise known as, Happy stuff-your-face-with-desserts day! Now, I realize that Im a little bit late to the Valentines Day party, but this being a journal and all, I wanted ...

15 feb 12

TGIF

Lots of recipe research and development goes on behind the scenes here at the desserts for breakfast kitchen that doesnt make it onto the blog. There are recipes that just arent good enough, rec...

10 feb 12

Lemon Speculoos Layer Cake with Chocolate Sprinkles

The first time I ever encountered speculoos cookies, at a random potluck years ago, I thought that they were disgusting. I had heard so much about how awesome these cookies were from my in-the-know D...

07 feb 12 1 person likes this

TGIF

[afternoon pastries at Saint Honore Boulangerie in Portland, Oregon] Happy Weekending and Superbowl-ad-watching, everyone! As for me, Ill be attempting to sleep off my jet lag from recent travel...

03 feb 12

Beet Tart with Blue Goat Cheese and Frisee, and a visit to Portlandia

Portland, you are awesome--and a food-lovers dream. I spent five days in your misty city-straddling-the-river at the beginning of January, and not once in those days did I eat a single un-delici...

30 jan 12 1 person likes this

TGIF: Picnic in the Redwoods

Im so lucky where I live: within an hours drive, I can be in a big city, or in quirky suburbs, or standing on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, or gazing up and up and up at the tall tops of majestic Re...

27 jan 12

Saffron and Blood Orange Caramel Macarons, with blood orange sorbet

Its been many, many years since Ive celebrated Lunar New Year properly  ...until now! Hi from Asia! *commence emphatic waving* Last time I was here for the new year festivities was decades ago (...

23 jan 12

TGIF

Little known fact about me: I used to be the Spoons -playing champion of my youth group when I was young. I dominated at that card game. :) Happy Weekending, everyone!

20 jan 12

Almond and Stanford Citrus Marmalade Crostata

It is surely one of the laws of the universe that grad students are the only people who inhabit campus 365 days a year, even over the holidays, and even during that vacation week between Christmas an...

17 jan 12

TGIF, from cruising altitude

2012 has already gotten off to an insane start: lots of traveling and projects scheduled for the first few months of the year, so youll have to please excuse me if the blog scheduling turns out a bit...

13 jan 12

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