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