Make Me Cook

Well, I just had to blog about this, because Lara is one of those people I’ve been dying to meet. She’s a local and she is a Food Geek like myself. So imagine my utter delight and glee when she contacted me to interview me!

My sit down coffee chat with Lara went on for about 2 hours, I’m sure it would have went on even longer if it were not for parking meters expiring and running out of quarters to feed them. Lara is probably one of the sweetest and most bubbly fun Food Geeks I have met so far. I love absolutely every minute of our time over coffee and left with a taste of wanting some more time to hang out. Lara “gets it” when it comes to food. She’s a geek like the rest of us and it is refreshing and wonderful to sit down and talk to people who are on the same page… people who just get it.

She’s also an amazing at home coffee roaster. She has served me as a source of invaluable information on the articles she has written on coffee roasting and bean tasting. Her writing has inspired me to roast at home, which is a fun exploration. When I showed up for the interview she had a cute little box sitting on the table waiting for me… inside it was her “Kickass Blend”. Hand roasted that morning…. what an honor

So L… thank you for a wonderful visit, Sitka & Spruce is calling our names
Coffee with Kelly Cline a Lara Ferroni Interview

Hey! Long time no write, I know I know….

Well lemme catch you up really fast. Things have been insanely busy (as you probably might have guessed) between work, family and travel I’ve been somewhat scarce on the ole interweb.

But the good guys Bill and Ed over at Studio Lighting.net nailed me down long enough to pick my brain on some of my lighting techniques I use for food photography. You can check that out here:
Kelly Cline’s Studio Lighting.net Interview

It was less of an interview and more like a big goof off session with a couple of buddies. I had so much fun talking with Ed and Bill… I’m still waiting for kids in the mail too hehehe.

So go have yourself a listen, and look for things to pick back up around these parts now that the weather is cooling down and is going to keep me inside for a while!

I’m going to do something unprecedented… something “out there”, something so insane you’re head will explode! Okay maybe it’s not all that, but I hope that you will at least have some fun with this.

On June 5th we have an upcoming poll for Pizza Dough. My poll will allow me to allow YOU to come up with the choices, so guess what… I am going to be putting up the poll and leaving it sit until the first 6 reader choices are made by you wonderful people. As soon as the reader 6 choices are reached (so we will actually have 8 in all since I have to come up with 2 in order for the poll to work), I will then turn off the ability to add to the poll (and remove any excess additions over the 6 reader choices) and the voting can begin from YOUR choices of ingredients.

So you got a couple weeks to think up some fun pizza topping choices.

Huzzah!!! Oh baby, I can’t wait to make a recipe out of this poll, I’ve been on a fresh fruit kick all week having started an intense work-out program (trying to shed some of these Food Photographer pounds hahaha).

The winners of the Tutti Frutti Fresh Fruit Challenge are: *drum roll*

• Mango
• Strawberry
• Watermelon

Now since again we had a tie with watermelon and pineapple… I might slip some pineapple essence into the mix, you’ll just have to wait and see. Think crunchy, creamy, fresh and sweet…mmmmm. Are you all tingly with excitement? I know I am!
Our next poll will run a little longer than usual becuase I will be a busy bee with a special Someone’s upcoming birthday…. shhhh

Oh man I bet you thought this poll was never going to close and that I had forgotten all about it…. well SUPRISE! We are getting this goodness back on track, Baby!

The winners of the Oink for Pork Challenge are: *drum roll*

• Garlic
• Goat Cheese
• Orange Juice

And because I have been VERY bad, I deserve to be punished. So I’m adding the next two most popular tot he list. Oh yeah you heard me… I’m spanking myself on this one and we’re gonna get it on with two more ingredients. The Punishment Ingredients are:

• Raw Honey
• Lavendar