Hello my friends! This year, I've had so many food bloggers ask me how we process and organize all of the tens of thousands of photos and videos on Steamy Kitchen. I thought I'd create a little video on our workflow with my friend and Steamy Kitchen assistant, Cheri...
My head is still spinning from the past few days - we just finished a whirlwind session of photography for my next book (another easy Asian cookbook). This time, instead of doing it all by myself, I enlisted the help of Todd, Diane and Jenna to protect my sanity....
A free online travel and food photography class is being hosted by my friend, Penny de los Santos, who happens to be one of the most talented photojournalists I've ever seen. Her work moves people in such unexpected ways. She had me in tears and nearly speechless last...
At one point, I owned 120 domain names. So I guess you could call me a domain-name hoarder, but seriously they were silly domains that people wouldn't ever think of or want in the first place. Every time I think of a cool phrase or idea, no matter how strange,...
I always say that the best way to learn is to do it while vacationing with friends...preferably with a pina colada in hand, lounging on a hammock and lazily gazing at the crashing ocean waves. If only college was like this. Well, if you're a food blogger, come join...
By far one of the best things about food blogging is being able to cultivate nuggets of moments where Scott and I can work side by side. We're quite opposite in talents (he's a computer programmer and professional poker player; I'm click-n-pray and way too spazzy and...
Today I spent a half hour at one of my kids' favorite Italian restaurants called Gio's. It's run by four of the hottest brothers in town. Like SERIOUSLY HOT. All of them. But that's not the reason why we went there. I write a monthly column for a small community paper...
As you know, I'm doing all the cooking, writing and photographing for the Steamy Kitchen cookbook. Today, I'm taking a photo of Grilled Pineapple with Chocolate Coconut Rum Sauce for the book, and I thought I'd let you take a peek into one of the most idiotic things I...
Instead of showing you some the of photos that are going into the book, I thought I'd show you one that isn't. This is a photo of Indonesian Beef Satay with Peanut Sauce. I do looooove the photo, however, I'll have to re-shoot. Let's play! Can you guess why? I...
My cookbook editor, Holly, is flying down to Florida and spending the entire day/eve with me tomorrow! I"m really looking forward to meeting her in person, since we've been working closely together for the past few months. We'll be spending the day cooking, testing,...
Sometimes, I feel like life isn't fair. and then...I play with Photoshop. All of the sudden, all is right in the world again. Except there is way too much space btw his head and mine. Well, it turns out that I'm not only one degree from Justin Timberlake, but get...
I know that you've not known me that long, but you've gotta believe that when I squeal in excitement like a monkey in heat - it's good. Real good. See those cards? My photos, my designs, and inside? My recipes! Ok, ok. Let me share with you how I did it, because it...
Thai Beef Salad above taken probably around midnight, on auto settings with my Canon Rebel XT, Lowel EGO lights for food photography are magical. During late Spring to early Fall months at the Steamy Kitchen household, my photo "studio" was the ratty ottoman and a $3...
'm going to give you 6 letters, out of order and I bet I can show you just ONE IMAGE and in that image you'll be able to see, hear, feel and smell EXACTLY what those 6 letters form. Here are the letters....in random order: H I S O T H Ready? Ok....read on... See?!?!?...
