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Food Photography Lighting Ideas
Although I love using natural light for a lot of my food photography, sometimes it’s just not an option. The UK has many days when the sun does not appear and when it does it’s not for long enough! So I have ...
Food Photography
Mini Break to Lacock, Wiltshire.
My other half, Gavin, and I recently had a cheeky mid week break away to Lacock in Wiltshire. It’s somewhere I had heard about for a while and at last managed to get a couple of nights booked for late September. The village is ...
Food Photography
Pouring Spoons Food Photography Video
I had great fun creating these images and putting it in to a video for Essential Photo using some of their brilliant Pixapro Glowpad lights. Excellent slim LED light panels that are battery operated which makes them super porta...
Biscuits
Pookies, Apple Pie Cookies
We recently had a wonderful couple of nights away, we stayed in a lovely B&B and when we left they gave us loads of Bramley cooking apples. I’ve made a few things with them and shared them with friends too. Then I dec...
Cakes
Coffee Drizzle Cake
I do love a coffee cake but don’t make them often as I’m the only one here that likes them, which means I end up eating most (by most I mean all) of it! I decided a cake crossed with a sugary drizzle topping ...
Pudding
Daim Mousse Shots
I had an idea this would be rather fabulous if it worked……and it did! I wasn’t convinced the Daim (well they used to be Dime in the UK back in the day, apparently that changed in 2005!) would melt, of course t...
Recipes
White Chocolate and Cherry Fudge
White Chocolate and Cherry Fudge I love fudge, it makes a great gift and will keep well. Here’s a variation I tried recently which went down well. White Chocolate and Cherry Fudge Makes 50-60 bite sized pieces Ingredients...
Pudding
Easy Banoffee Pavlova
An easy pudding to satisfy that sweet tooth! I usually have a can or jar of caramel in the cupboard as well as double cream in the fridge and having chickens means eggs are always on hand too. Perfect, add bananas and we’...
