Wander and Paint — Food illustration
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Deep Fried Chicken-of-the-woods Mushrooms Recipe
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Always had a love affair with mushrooms and always will. So in this weeks edition of "Wild Dining Illustrated," I'm rendering a beautiful version of a recipe inspired from the Forager Chef...
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Oregon Grapes Breakfast Parfait Recipe
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[...] You can find not one, but two, jam recipes in the resource section. For myself, I'm having way too much fun depicting what is essentially slabs of yogurt or sour cream trapped in gooey goodness and coming up with my own parfait concoction...
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Ostrich Fern Pizza
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It was dark in the garden but I was hooked.
A friend of mine, a few years ago, introduced me to wood-fired ostrich fern pizza. Me and a group of friends had to hunt for the fiddle heads first throughout the garden, where there was barely any light left in the sky to illuminate the way-- and it was damp.
..but so worth the wait...
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Garlic Mustard Pesto and Polenta
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[...]. Even though I unfailingly destroy the crisp layer on the polenta squares every time I make them, I forever keep trying to achieve a perfect crispy skin. One day I will succeed - whenever I finally dedicate time to do it right...
Coup De Coeur: Fantastic Chalk #2 Peace Coffee
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[...] I just love how a lot can be told in an image with a limited color palette and a few well-placed words.