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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Welcome
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.
Tiramisu Cookies
In my experience, everyone loves tiramisu… I know I sure do. There is something special about the mascarpone, the espresso, the dusting of cocoa powder. Tiramisu has its own vibe and today, we are baking cookies that lean into that vibe in a wonderful way. These cookies are very tender with the best espresso flavor and the softest consistency due to the mascarpone right in the dough. These cookies mix up quick, chill for a little bit and then just drop onto a baking sheet. Super easy and super quick. They are perfect for last minute sweet needs or cravings and also make a great addition to a holiday cookie box! Let’s get started… In a large bowl, mix 113 grams of room temperature butter with 4 ounces of room temperature mascarpone (or cream cheese!), a large egg and 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract until smooth. Add 210 grams of granulated
Clementine Canestrelli Cookies
These simple Italian shortbread cookies or canestrelli are tender, buttery and just perfect with your morning coffee or an afternoon cup of tea. Classically, these cookies are subtly flavored with a little vanilla and lemon zest, but today, I am using these beautiful cookies to celebrate the start of citrus season in a delicious way… With the addition of fresh clementine zest and juice, these canestrelli transform into fun little cookies that are both beautiful and wonderfully flavorful. Let’s get started… Start by gathering 130 grams of all purpose flour, 100 grams of cornstarch, 80 grams of confectioners sugar, 11 tablespoons of butter, 1 tablespoon of fresh clementine zest, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon of orange extract, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 cup of fresh clementine juice and 3 hard boiled egg yolks. If you are wondering why these cookies require hard boiled egg yolks, there is a
Challah
Challah is beautiful, but it’s good looks serve as a supporting roll to the subtly sweet, buttery flavor that this loaf is loved for. A Jewish enriched bread traditionally baked for Shabbat, Sabbath dinners and around the holidays, Challah is a delicious bread that can be served with dinner or used to create the best french toast, croutons or bread pudding. If baking a loaf that will wow your friends and family with both its stunning good looks and fantastic flavors sounds like something you would like to do then you need to give this Challah a try. You are going to love this loaf. Let’s get started… We are going to begin by making a quick starter dough. This starter will help add layers to the flavor and tenderness of your challah, plus it only needs to rest for 45 minutes, so you don’t need to start this dough
Make Ahead Roast Turkey & Gravy
A juicy, golden brown turkey is the star of many holiday tables, but this is usually in addition to a variety of side dishes, breads, sauces, gravy and desserts… in other words, if you are hosting for the holidays, you’ll have a lot going on and having certain elements that can be successfully made ahead can make your overall experience and stress levels so much better. Enter – my make ahead roast turkey with gravy. Ever since I made my first make ahead roast turkey, I no longer roast a turkey the day of the party. It’s just too stressful trying to time everything perfectly, carve a turkey as guests are trickling in and then have to clean all of that mess up all while I mash potatoes and make sure my croissants don’t burn. I am getting stressed just thinking about it, but knowing I can make a beautiful
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.
