Beautiful food is my passion. Whether I am cooking for friends and family or styling food for photo shoots, I love creating beautiful dishes that you know you will love before you even take a bite.
In addition to creating clean, modern and beautiful content for restaurants, businesses and ingredient companies, I also have been collecting my favorite recipes to share with you here on Espresso & Lime.
Whether you are here for the recipes or here to create beautiful content for your business, food has brought us together and this makes me happy.
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I'm Fallon, and I specialize in food styling, project photography, food photography and recipe development. We lived on the tiny island of Okinawa, Japan for several years and I found myself cooking in a very small kitchen without an oven, but with easy access to incredibly fresh fruits, vegetables and some of the best seafood in the world. As a girl who used her oven almost every day, my cooking style had to adapt and this was an eye opening, educational experience that taught me so much about food and the many ways that you can accomplish beautiful dishes from around the world.
My Italian Themed Christmas Cookie Box
This year, I wanted to plan my Christmas cookie box around a specific theme. Not to be extra fancy or anything, just to help keep my inspiration harnessed, because as soon as Thanksgiving is over, I am overwhelmed with Christmas cookie ideas and there are way too many amazing cookie recipes out there to narrow it down to a do-able number without some sort of theme to keep me focused. I am already planned a Mexican cookie themed box for next year, so I think this may become a thing in my kitchen for the foreseeable future. Ok so let’s talk about Italian cookies… There are so many incredible Italian cookies and even when you narrow that list down to cookies that are considered “holiday” cookies, the options are still plentiful. After much consideration, these are the cookies that I chose… Chocolate Spice Cookies – these cookies were going to
Crispy Beef & Green Beans
Crispy beef and green beans aka one of the best ways to use tough, thin or even frozen beef you may have on hand. Since we are cutting long thin strips and quickly shallow frying it, you don’t need to use the very best cut you can afford. Plus, this recipe calls for only one pound of beef and for some reason coating it, frying it and tossing it in the sauce with some fresh green beans makes it grow in volume, so this recipe makes a pound of beef feed four, which is so nice. If you have been searching for a simple Asian inspired beef recipe that has all of those take out vibes, but is ready in 20 and costs way less then I would love for you to give my crispy beef and green beans a try. Let’s get started… Begin by very thinly slicing a
Chocolate Everything Cookies
If you have a Panera Bread where you live… and if you have ever gone in to check out their pastries… and if your eyes have wandered over to their cookie selection, you have probably seen (and subsequently ordered) their kitchen sink cookie. It is a cookie filled with everything, but the “kitchen sink” and my husband absolutely loves them, so a few years back, I added my own version of this cookie with “everything” that we love. While I do love this cookie recipe, I wanted to create a chocolate version with an updated list of my favorite add-ins and today, I am proud to introduce you to my chocolate everything cookie… Let’s get started… Begin by whisking a cup of room temperature butter with 1/4 cup of peanut butter (you can use creamy or crunchy here!), 3/4 cup of brown sugar and 3/4 cup of granulated sugar until
Chocolate Cherry & Macadamia Biscotti
Biscotti is technically a cookie, but to me, it should have its own category. It’s a whole vibe. They are unlike any other cookies around. Crisp enough to withstand a nice long dunk in hot beverage and dry enough to soak up all of the coffee, hot cocoa or latte flavors you pair it with. I have lots of great biscotti recipes on this blog… Dark Chocolate Espresso Biscotti Lemon Poppyseed Biscotti Orange Pistachio & White Chocolate Biscotti Spiced Pumpkin Biscotti … and theres more in there too, but these are one of the best. Let me explain. First, they are chocolate based, so they remind me of really crunchy brownies. Next, they have macadamia nuts in them and if you haven’t gotten into macadamias, proceed with caution, because they are worth their hefty price tag. And finally, they have little pops of dried cherries randomly scattered in amongst the
I absolutely love my Victoria Cookware cast iron skillets. They are durable, easy to clean, maintain wonderfully even heat and are oven safe.
If you make smoothies, sauces, salsa or soup then you should definitely have a great blender in your kitchen and I love my Ninja.
A kitchen scale makes a huge difference in baked goods and weighing your ingredients can ensure delicious results.
