January 2010
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Molly & Jamie~ At the Green Market
~ Recipe and story by Chef & Food Stylist, Molly Shuster. Photography by me.
Often times, just the thought of wandering the farmer’s markets during the cold winter months is enough to keep people at home. I mean, what can you buy besides potatoes anyway? I actually love this time of year and the season’s flavors. Yes, this post is coming a bit late and some of the produce available in...
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Dinner & A Movie
Roasted Tomato Basil Soup and A Good Year
Cooking in my parent’s Texas kitchen is a much different experience than in my NYC apartment. For one, there is counter space, endless square feet of it. Everywhere you look there is a surface to set things down on. A dishwasher, as in machine, not person.. who knew such technology existed?! And a lifetime stock of kitchen equipment. You want a...
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Under 'da Sea
I was in total enchantment with these jelly fish as they danced though the seeming heavens…
All images were taken with my old Hasselblad camera and FujiPro800 in San Francisco, California
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Ten Polaroids~ Upper West Side
Manhattan’s Upper West Side is synonymous with timelessness. Photographing something timeless allows the photographer to choose how to capture these moments and share them, either referencing a time passed or the present. While nothing can last forever, the look of it may be able to transcend time and place, and come to rest in a space more suited for our memories than reality. I headed...
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A Cocktail Party in Park Slope
This weekend the Arments’ (Tiffany & Marco) hosted a Pot-Luck Pictionary Cocktail Party in their beautiful brownstone apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn and allowed us to gather to celebrate Tiffany’s birthday. It was an impressively stocked bar complete with drink recipe cards and my favorite: a Pomegranate-Champagne Punch (which matched my little pink dress so I was happy) and...
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Dinner & A Movie
Arugula and Goat Cheese Ravioli and Revolutionary Road
This was my very first attempt at making ravioli, I wanted something as classic as the character’s lives may seem on the outside and a simple comfort food to ease through the drama in this stunning movie based on the crumbling reality of the American Dream. Revolutionary Road is one of those films I really love because visually every...
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Images from a Weekend
A visit to the farmer’s market in Union Square, a trip downtown to an art opening at Jen Bekman’s gallery, cold udon noodles on Saint Mark’s Place, a cup of Mud and window shopping on 9th street, an Upper West Side Polaroid project and Sunday Brunch of baked farmer’s market goat cheese & pesto.
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To Marilyn, with Love
I have been really inspired recently by images of Marilyn Monroe that are slightly more intimate, not in the less-clothes kind of way but in an at home behind the scenes glamour effect. I loved the big soft sweater shoot she did at the end of her life on the beach and when she would wear softer makeup and curls. I channeled all these details into this Marilyn Monroe inspired shoot...
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Dinner & A Movie
Homestyle Pot Roast, Creamy Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Asparagus and Viva Las Vegas
Yeah, yeah, I know, wouldn’t Shrimp Cocktails — an homage to the 99 cent version on the old Vegas strip that I’ve shamelessly visited on a few late-nights (or was it early morning?) occasions — be more appropriate with the 1964 Viva Las Vegas staring Elvis Presley and Ann Margret? Well no, because this...
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What's in store
Do we really need 7 different types of canned green beans?
All images were shot with my Minolta SRT101 on Kodak BW400CN film in Burleson, Texas
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Snip, Snip.
So I’m kind of funny about haircuts. First, I don’t get them often. I think the last haircut I got I lived in a different state! It’s not that I have hippy ideals, I just don’t really think about it. I much more interested in the different ways I can style it. Second, more often than not I just go to a barber shop… which can be a problem sometimes because how I...
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A Texas White Christmas
Never in my life had I been able to wake up on Christmas morning to a White Christmas until this past one. It’s not that snow is a new thing to me, I have to deal just like everyone else with it in New York (see my Walkin in a Winter Wonderland story) to the point where I kick at it to go away. It’s just, this is Texas. The state where my mom wears her Christmas sweater despite the...
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Snow? In Fort Worth?
This past Christmas Eve it snowed in Texas… about 3 inches… this is a big deal. Never-mind that the day I left New York for Dallas I couldn’t see the steps OR handrail down my brownstone’s entrance having been buried in the blizzard and I still managed to get to the airport with an on time flight departure. BUT.. 3 inches in Texas means the city shuts down. I don’t...
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Artifacts of my Papa
While in Texas visiting with my Dad I went and sat at my Papa’s desk. Although he is no longer with us it doesn’t change how much we love him. My Dad kept some of the things left by my Grandfather in their place as he had them. A little stamp collection, random keys, a well of ink, old accounting papers, banking bags, business cards, the notch in the wood where his chair hit the desk...
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Are you an Upper West Sider?
… So the discovery of these two new UWS pals got me thinking, are there anymore of you out there? Hello, Upper West Siders! Please say hello. We’re cooking up something really fun just for us.
{via Old Sweet Song}
One of the great things about blogging is the community of talented and interesting friends you make that endlessly inspire you. On occasion you find out that “hey!...
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It's Just an Old Sweet Song~
There are those times when you come across someone’s blog and everything just clicks. You get them right away as if you were old childhood friends growing up next door to each other. That’s how I felt when a few months back when I stumbled upon Amy’s ever charming blog Old Sweet Song. Two things immediately pop in my mind, first driving down the Spanish moss lined lanes of...
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Billie Holiday
In Which We Try To Please So Many People
See my images from a Billie Holiday inspired shoot, a transcribed interview from 1956, and a glimpse into this dark singer’s world on THIS RECORDING.
What I’m listening to: Stormy Weather by Billie Holiday, my favorite version of this perfect sad rainy day song. Click to hear~
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Home for the Holidays~
So there I am in my Santa Claus sweater my grandma made me some years ago when people could still by Polaroid film at the grocery store. Going home means finding little gems like this and creating new ones as time goes by.
We got new family stockings this year, I requested our names to be written on them as they’ve always been.. I’m special though, I got puff paint.
Grandma...
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Grandma's Potato Soup & Cornbread
For me this is the definition of comfort food, my grandma’s potato soup and cornbread. It’s a staple at her house and one I always request when I’m home in Texas. Nobody else makes this in my family because nobody makes it as good as Grandma. I’ve had 2 separate tutorials and one phone walk through of the recipe so I can get quick fixes in New York to hold me over until...
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January's FREE iPhone Wallpapers — A Classic...
I’m feeling classic and nostalgic, starting off a new decade with old Manhattan. These images are captures by a Polariod SX-70, Holga, 35mm Honeywell Pentax, 35mm Minolta SRT101, and digital 5DMarkII. As we move forward and change I like to remember what we created before so I can be better tomorrow. Please enjoy my January series of free iPhone wallpapers to carry you through the New Year!
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