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.
Food Styling
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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.
Maple Pecan Sticky Buns
Cinnamon rolls are great, but maple pecan sticky buns are even better… This beauty is essentially a fluffy cinnamon roll baked over a rich maple caramel sauce filled with pecans and once they are baked, they are flipped over onto a plate so all of that gooey maple pecan goodness is on top. They are perfection and technically can be enjoyed as breakfast, brunch, an afternoon snack or dessert. Let’s get started… Begin by making my favorite cinnamon roll dough. You can see a full walk through of this process in my cinnamon roll recipe and of course I have step-by-step instructions below, but here is a quick version… Step #1 – bloom the yeast by whisking a big pinch of granulated sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons of active dry yeast into 1/2 cup of warm whole milk and set it aside until it is frothy Step #2 – once
Sausage & Onion Rolls
Years ago, my husband and I used to go to a restaurant in North Carolina that served these pizza rolls that were essentially savory cinnamon rolls filled with delicious meats and cheeses. We both loved them and when we moved from the area, I knew I had to recreate them… These sausage and onion rolls are what I came up with and dare I say they are even better than the originals. Fluffy rolls filled to the brim with crispy Italian sausage, caramelized onions, garlic, herbs, marinara and cheese. They are the ultimate appetizer or shareable for any game day, game night or pot luck situation and once you start making them, you will be making them again soon. Pinky swear. Let’s get started… In addition to the fact that these rolls are so delicious, something else I love about them is how simple they are to bring together. Start
Cranberry Orange Ricciarelli
Ricciarelli are one of my all time favorite Italian cookies. They have the most incredibly light melt in your mouth texture and are naturally gluten-free, so I love baking them for friends and family with gluten sensitivities. Today, we are baking a cranberry orange ricciarelli, but I have a great chocolate version here and a basic recipe here. These cookies can be flavored in so many fun ways, so once you start baking them yourself, this is a great recipe to start making your own. Let’s get started… Start by using an electric hand mixer to whip 2 large egg whites in a clean dry bowl until you get firm peaks. Add 1 teaspoon of almond extract, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon of fresh orange juice and 2 teaspoons of fresh orange zest and continue whipping until the add-ins are fully incorporated and the egg whites are nice and
Espresso Vanilla Marble Cake
Have you ever seen a beautifully swirled marble cake and wondered just how complicated it would be to make? Well, we are making one today and you won’t believe how easy it is to create something so pretty… and so delicious too. To make this cake the most beautiful it can be, I wanted to swirl two very different colors, so the pattern would be super obvious. We are going with a creamy pale vanilla cake batter and a dark, rich espresso chocolate batter and these two will pair well both visually and flavor wise. They are quite perfect together actually. Let’s get started… One of the nice things about this cake is that both batters start out together. In a large bowl, combine 170 grams of room temperature butter with 300 grams of granulated sugar until the mixture is pale yellow and fluffy. Add 4 large eggs, 150 grams
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.
