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Subzero Ice cream Torte Saturday 11th February 2012

This was a fun job. Last week, Kevin and David from “I Am SubZero” spent a hectic day with me in the studio shooting a new range of delicious ice cream desserts. As usual, we super-cooled the ice cream base down to approximately minus 40 using dry ice, then carefully defrosted the biscuit base and [...]

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Halen Mon, seasoned by nature. Monday 30th January 2012

Here’s a lovely job from last week. The Anglesey Sea Salt Company asked me to refresh and augment their image library as they have some recent additions to the Halen Mon range of natural sea salt. I’m delighted to be working with Halen Mon, in opinion it’s one of the most exciting new brands to [...]

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The Studio Fish Finger Sandwich Sunday 29th January 2012

There’s been a lot traffic on Twitter this month based around the hashtag #huwsstudiosandwich. It all relates to the “Studio Special” lunchtime treat that I’ve been serving to clients and colleagues during January. A bed of fresh rocket and watercress on crunchy tiger bread, four crispy fish fingers all topped with tangy tartar sauce – delicious. [...]

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Clarks Maple Syrup Roasted Chicken with Glazed Root Vegetables, Maple Syrup Recipe #3 Saturday 21st January 2012

Here we go, Alison’s delicious recipes for Sunday lunch using Clark’s Maple Syrup. Roasted Chicken (ingredients) 1.4 kg chicken 1 lemon 1 red onion, peeled and halved 2 tbls olive oil 3 tbls Clarks maple syrup Method Preheat the oven to 225 C/gas 7. Place the lemon and onion in the cavity. Drizzle the chicken [...]

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Clarks Maple Syrup Bacon Salad, Maple Syrup Recipe #3 Thursday 19th January 2012

Here we go, recipe number three from the Clark’s Foods mini cookbook. Hats off to Alison she even made the salad look interesting and as usual it tasted delicious. Also a big “Thank You” to Elliot Jenkins for supplying the beautifully hand turned salad bowl. 6 rashers un-smoked back bacon 200 ml Clarks maple syrup [...]

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Vanilla Cheesecake with Pecan Brittle, Maple Syrup Recipe #2 Wednesday 18th January 2012

Here we go recipe number Two from the maple syrup mini cookbook – this was probably my favorite – Delicious! Notice that the top of the cheesecake is completely free of cracks – nothing to do with me (or Photoshop) all down to Alison’s excellent food styling. Biscuit base 175g digestive biscuit crumbs 50g butter, [...]

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Sticky Pancetta Scallops Maple Syrup Recipe #1 Tuesday 17th January 2012

Here’s the first of a series of recipes features for the mini cookbook that Alison and I shot in the studio just before Christmas. Alison developed all the recipes with a common theme, they all include Clark Food’s amazing Maple Syrup. As usual Alison did a fantastic job of the food styling and each of [...]

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Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011 Saturday 14th January 2012

Wow. Flavours of Wales has won the Welsh section of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Congratulations to author Gilli Davies, publishers Graffeg and a modest pat on the back for me for shooting all the pictures. The book now goes on to compete against winners in the same category in other countries for title of [...]

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Getty Images, the Statue of Liberty Sunday 11th December 2011

At last the new website is up and running, a big shout out goes to the ever patient Joel Hughes at Jojet for all his hard work. But, there are other goals for the year and since it’s December I’m running out of time to achieve them all. My other big project for this year [...]

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Christmas Pudding Tuesday 29th November 2011

I love Christmas, I always have done. It’s unusual for me to be shooting Christmas food at this time of year, normally I would have the trees, crackers and turkeys in the studio in early spring because the lead time for marketing production is at least 6 months. However, yesterday I shot the new Christmas [...]

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