just some fotos from my little stay-cation last week.
🙂
…i know, right?!
always.
oh, hi. just enjoying a macchiato on the porch… Continue reading
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{foto friday – makes me think of summer romance}
21 Juni’ve been feelin’ the heat of the summer, the passion of the sun, and just a little extra frisky lately…
makes me think of summer romance… since it is the summer solstice and all 😉
this was one romantic night in ol’ nyc…
i remember it clearly…
have a great {romantic} weekend, xxoo
{just some pics from june}
11 Junthe temps were absolutely perfect last week – 70-80 degrees during the day and cool nights that require only a light sweater, but flip flops are comfortable. the smell of the grill lingers in the air, the frangrance from the various blooms waft from every angle, the sun is warm, the air is warm, the days are long… and that means i take lots of little walks.
here’s a few shake-it app inspired fotos i snapped last week while wandering around my ‘hood…
devouring the best pastrami sammy EVER – from masterpiece delicatessen in the highlands… my new favourite spot!!
my neighbourhood kind of reminds me of new york…
enjoying my first latte in about a year… {half caff, only – definitely iced!} Continue reading
{messages from manhattan – “wake up!”}
17 Mayi’ve decided to start something new – a “feature” on my blog. i’m going to call it “messages from manhattan” and it will showcase fotos of various sayings or quotes or the like that i noticed and fotographed all over the city during the time i lived there…
here’s one of my all time favs :
wake up! and have a great weekend.
{oNeLoVe}
{i miss sunrises}
15 Mayi mean, i don’t miss waking up for them, per se… but i miss their beauty, their diversity, their colours, their peace…
every morning for about 4 months i got up and fotographed the sunrise. my schedule at work began to change so i stopped doing it… i’m sort of missing them right now because colorado has some of the coolest skies!
{ways artichokes are like humans}
14 Mayit’s artichoke season!!!
and thank goodness for that!!!! i wrote a blog or two about them last spring… i just love these beautiful babies. although they do take an awful lot of work to prepare for such a little amount of actual flesh… it’s SO worth it – the scrumptiousness waiting inside doesn’t quite compare to any other…
it got me thinking about how artichokes are kind of like us, like humans…
i know you may be chuckling thinking how the heck can i be like a green pokey vegetable?! well… the way i see it –
an artichoke looks like a flower.
just like us 🙂 Continue reading
{heart-shaped world volume 3}
3 Mayif i stop and pay attention – i notice that love follows me everywhere i go.
the most interesting things seem to form themselves into a heart…
like chipped paint on a wall…
lots of heart-shaped rocks… Continue reading
{missing NYC – cherry blossoms, the perfect portrait accessory}
26 Apri’m reminiscing about brisk spring foto shoots in central park like the one with this beautiful couple from singapore…
cherry blossoms just reek of spring – quite literally! 😉
and i think we are finally entering spring here in colorado – even though it’s doubtful i’ll see any of these here! warmer temps are expected for our weekend, though – and i look forward to going for a walk by the lake, working in the garden, and having a smoothie outside on the patio. i hope yours is filled with warmer temps also – among other delicious things!
{missing new york!}
19 Apri mean, in a way i always will miss new york. there’s just no place on earth quite like it… and i miss all the cool doors i would always see…
{meatless mondays – kaniwa endive “boats” featuring spring-welcoming english peas}
15 Aprhappy {meatless} monday everyone!
these are SO SO SO SO SO GOOD! i planned on just eating a few and saving some for lunch the next day, but i ended up devouring the whole batch in under 5 minutes! so delicious!
i’ve introduced you to kaniwa a few times now… and this is one of my new favourite things to do with it!
i am all about texture – i love it in both food and foto. kaniwa has plenty of texture and the most fun little crunch. you know how quinoa has that little “pop” kind of crunch going on?! – well kaniwa is like that but it’s much smaller and it’s just so fun to eat! i also love belgian endive for that reason – fun to eat and TEXTURE! so, when i combined the two in this recipe, my taste buds and senses were dancing because it was just so completely delicious and enjoyable! and healthy and simple and easy and all of those things i like to promote here at food and foto dot com!
so without further ado, here is a recipe that’s great as an hors d’oeuvres, snack, light dinner, fun brunch… or blog-worthy dish 😉
another amazing item i will have to blog about again soon – english peas. there are only a few other produce items that make me think of spring like english peas do. i’m trying to encourage it to hurry and get here – we are due for more snow this week, blast! i know we need the moisture, but i just wanna wear flip flops and t-shirts already!
i digress –
ingredients {makes about 8-10 “boats”}:
– 1 medium-sized belgian endive
– 1/4 cup tomato, chopped
– handful of fresh english peas, shelled
– 1 cup kaniwa {you do not need to rinse it}
– about 2 tablespoons honey {preferably local}
– pat of your favourite butter {or substitute} Continue reading
{the time i climbed a 90-foot grain elevator}
5 Aprdo you know what a grain elevator is?! i didn’t until the time i was visiting indiana, fotographing a wedding… a very special wedding. my cousin, M married his lady, E and and her family has a farm – they are bonafide farmers! experiencing their farm first hand was such an absolute joy! mister T is one proud owner, and he knows his farm in and out. from hydraulic garage doors to magic hoses to ceiling snow, the place is just loaded with charm that encourage memories for years.
as i said yesterday, one of my favourite moments of all time was spent on this farm on that wonderfully warm midwest day in mid may. the rain came crashing down out of nowhere, but the sun didn’t have time to really leave so the air had that yummy glare to it that you just knew was going to create the most amazing rainbow once the clouds parted…
double rainbow!
my biggest fan anthony wanted to know the story behind yesterday’s “favourtie moment” shot. here it is. i walked through “attic winter wonderland” i called it – insulated craziness balance-beamed between one world and the next… we get to the end and mister T tells me to turn left and “climb in”… essentially, i am inside this box, just on the other side…
see that little box? i’m in one just like it… i’m just on the other side of the barn. 🙂 so after we got out of this barn, we walked over to the grain elevator. i was beyond scared, but also knew i really wanted to do this…
the grain elevator i walked up looks nothing like the ones in the wikipedia fotos… this was basically a giant ladder… and i kind of have this phobia of heights, and also a phobia of ladders – so this was a big feat for me! Continue reading
{one of my favourite fotos -and moments- of all time}
4 Apr
i love this foto mostly because it totally evokes so many emotions for me — i remember this day so well… and i can be whisked away to exactly this moment in time again when i look at this foto… i can just close my eyes, and i’m there…
the pleasing aroma of the rain, the sound of it dancing on the rooftop above my head, the glare from the determined sun somehow still shining through it…
it was a very magical experience, this moment… and i had a camera with me!
🙂
{sumo citrus!}
28 Mar
i just love seasonal produce. i love looking forward to something…
we are so spoiled – especially in the US – to get food whenever we want it… including produce. and it baffles me when people complain about the taste of blueberries in january.
anyway – this is one piece of amazing produce that you can only get your hands on at select markets for about a month or so out of the year, usually beginning mid to late february. they are called sumo citrus. and they are completely out of this world!!
i know what you’re thinking… “that looks kind of like a clementine, i’ve had clementines… i love them!” well, i love them, too. but this is not a clementine or a cutie or a tangerine or anything you’ve ever had that’s orange… unless, of course… you HAVE had one… 😉 {have you?!}
it’s the most amazing piece of citrus i have ever eaten. for real. Continue reading
{aj the gem}
27 Maras an astrology-loving-portrait-photographer, i always say geminis are my favourite to play with. they give me so many different looks! the lovely gem, AJ, still goes down as one of my favourite models to get in front of my lense… and she feels the same way about being being in front of it!
i never have to give miss A any direction… she always knows where the camera is…
and they have quite the romance going on!…
she’s so fun and flirty… Continue reading
{fantastic freshly-cracked parmigiano reggiano}
25 Mari’m starting a cleanse this week. i’ll write about it next week so stay tuned! for this week, i thought i’d feature a few things that i super enjoy on a special level. i eat about 80-90% vegan. i’m not strict about it, but i just try to eat as healthy, local, raw, organic, and seasonal as i possibly can…
but, every now and again, i just love to indulge.
i eat really really good food pretty much all the time, and i am grateful for that. once in a while there are those things i just really look forward to… a fresh-cracked wedge of official parmigiano reggiano is one of those things for me. i’m not talking the parm you sprinkle on your pizza from the bottle or tub, i’m talking this thing has only been in contact with open air for less than 24 hours. i’m talking about a piece of cheese that is so unbelievably FRESH, flavours linger from it that absolutely blow your mind.
i’m talking about this specialty item from whole foods market.
i’m talking about parmigiano reggiano.
{kitty yoga}
20 Marmy sweet kitty callee just LOVES my yoga mat…
mostly, she loves laying on it… when i seem to need to be laying on it…
but i’ve caught her doing downward-facing-dog once or twice now 😉 … isn’t she just the cutest thing?!
happy birthday, food and foto!
11 Martoday is food and foto dot com’s first birthday! woohoo! i’m making my favourite snack, amazeballs, in celebration and instead of cake. 🙂
on this day in 2012, i created a wordpress website and turned it into a dot com. food and foto was created with the idea of educating readers on healthy eating options as well as sharing my passion for fotography. it has since molded into a collaboration of recipes, ramblings, and images from my canon. with over 220 posts, i must say this blog has transformed into such a fun and healthy outlet for me to share the things i love most. i am humbled by the amount of support from the wordpress community, and i am honoured to have as many followers as i do. my dream is to see this blog transform into a lifestyle blog that inspires people to create. i enjoy cooking and sharing recipes, but i also enjoy sharing information about overall health and wellness… and living a simple life. and since i’ve become rather good at manifesting, i’ll just throw this out there –
my dream is to make this my FULL TIME JOB! and it can happen!
and so, now i am brainstorming new ways to tailor this blog into something slightly different. i like consistency, but i am also a huge proponent for change and i think it’s important to keep things fresh. so i’m working behind the scenes over the next few days, coming up with new ideas for this ever-growing blog, food and foto dot com.
let’s reflect for a moment, shall we?
i believe i’ve come a long way since my first post…
and in case you missed it, here’s my first recipe blogpost…
one of the most delicious recipes i created was this…
although – it has a very close tie with this…
okay, you may want to try this, and this, and this, too…
alright – and no doubt, you may want to throw a party just to make these…
one of my favourite blogs i’ve ever written is right here…
and speaking of cleansing, people always ask about my 5-day DIY version…
but don’t get me wrong, i’ll put away about a dozen of these, as well…
it’s all about balance, really. balance, and this…
i also sometimes get all philosophical and talk about stuff like this…
and don’t forget – i do a lot of other things with my camera – see?!
i want to thank you ALL from the depths of my soul for being an avid reader, for following and taking time to comment, and for making me really feel like part of a community! you are my muse, the reason{s} i keep this up, the fire i need to stay inspired. YOU, my faithful readers — you know i do this for you, right?! i do it for me because i love it, but i do it for you because you appreciate it.
so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOOD AND FOTO!
here’s to many many more years of health, food, and fotos! xxoo
i am audrey michelle
i am a minimalist
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