Portland Portraits

Fun Times in the Ace Hotel!

Our Tree

8 hrs later......no extra lights at Target!

Setting up the Christmas tree

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAUREN

Paris, October 2008

love, Mom & Dad

Paper People

My latest work, profile, paper & scalpel.



Looking forward to some posts from france?

Plum Ginger Cake

President La Motte

A new entry into the presidential race!

SF farmers market with Shirley

hello?

where is everybody?

Fresh Butter

Organic Valley Cream with Halen mon Gold Sea Salt

Happy {Belated} Father's Day

Thought this to be well suited for the occasion.


Ps. Have a lookout for a package sent to the studio in my name, it is for you.
Enjoy!

Bakery Blog

I started a little blog for the bakery, to get business and to keep people updated.
The address in anoukbakery.blogspot.com.
I haven't had any coffee yet and I should know better at this point then to try and write anything before coffee!
Let me know if you know anyone who needs cookies & baked goods, or if the studio needs anything. I'm also going to be trying new stuff so let me know if you want me to mail any new stuff down there.

also: Dad can you send me instructions for the starter. Thanks, love, lauren

Paris, France

Out Courtnay's Window:

Wow it really works

Lauren, the recipe in the book you gave me worked great. Wood oven 40 minutes.

Great texture, crispy crust and it taste good. And no kneading of the dough.

This is my new dog Oliver

Plus fifty some odd years........

Brian in Portofino....... 2000

Wishing I was in California

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

Love you & see you soon!
love, Lauren

making butter

Elizabeth and I have been making butter at home and salting it with fancy salt from the salt store. This was made from Strauss Family Creamery Cream and Maldon Salt.

The fresh buttermilk

Voila! Fresh Butter

Me & A Tree

Here is a picture of me, next to a tree, with sunlight in my eyes.
I am looking for something but have not found it yet.



Glade to hear everyone's collective excitement about The Lamotte Family Album.
Speak soon.

Beautiful

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

Vancouver Shadows

Remember that little trip I took, finally got around to editing some of the images this afternoon.
The weather was lovely in Brooklyn today, people in all colors and shapes walking down Bedford Ave with smiles on their face.

On with the show:











Any thoughts? This is a part of a larger series I started on this trip & part of an even bigger series I have been shooting since.
Would love some critical feedback if anyone has the time.

Hope all are well.

What I Just Ate: The Poached Egg Burger

Hello Family,
I am back after some absence, my apologizes been a bit of a hectic month for me.
Hope everyone is doing well in their respected endeavors.

Anyhow I just enjoy this fine delectable treat for dinner:


From bottom to to:
Bottom of English Muffin
Lettuce
85% Lean Organic Grass-fed Beef Burger w/ Mustard & Chili Powder Infused
Smoked Cheddar
Bacon
More Lettuce
Poached Egg
Top of English Muffin w/ tad of Ranch

Ummmmmmmm
All was well but extremely hard to eat & somewhat messy.
I think it was a bit too many flavors, this is a problem of mine, I'm working on it.

Anyhow off to watch, 71 Fragments of Chronology of Chance by Michael Haneke. He is a austrian director who made another great yet disturbing film called Hidden/Cache I saw and Andreas just wrote a blog post about him we plan to publish later this week. Also check out Funny Games, a movie he has just remade & reshot shot for shot and scene for scene but in America. Looks to be an interesting remake.

Well I'm off to that, hope to be posting more and hearing more from all.

2008 - Here we come!

Where is everybody?

So is everyone so busy? No time to blog anymore? Well l I have a minutes so I'll update you guys on my life.
1. I got the account at Blend cafe in Portland, so I am making bluebery muffins, trail mix muffins, chocolate chip cookies and trail mix cookies 3 time a week for the cafe. It is exhausting, but fun. I have some great moments when I'm in the kitchen alone when it hits me and then I feel pretty excited about the state of thimgs, even if I'm working 12 hour days!
2. I got inspected by the health inspector and have my own offical liscence to make food!
3. I have a busness bank account with $68 in it
4. I have spent a lot of money in 3 days getting ready for the health inspector and buying supplies and paying for my license (thank you grandpa!)
5. (I need grandpa's address, I have an outdated thank you note for him)
6. I need an accounting program/plan - any ideas

I'm exhausted and need to muster the strength to make some dinner so I'm gunna go but I'll leave you with some hawaii pictures where I learned how to open a fresh coconut on a pickax!

Baking Baking Baking Day & Night

So as you all know things in the baking area of my life are picking up, and I had my first meeting with a cafe yesterday. Luckily I was with Morgan (Dovetail Bakery/friend/employer) so she could answer questions that I hadn't even thought of yet. In the last 24 hours I had been baking for 18 or more hours with a brief break for sleep, in preperation for this meeting. It went well, she really liked the trail mix cookies, the chocolate chip cookies, the tarte tatin, and the maple carrot cake,and the madeleienes. She even sent a follow up email expressing how surprised she was that the vegan goods tasted so good and that she wouldn't have even known they were vegan. Quite a compliment.
Now I'm in the "oh shit what have I done" phase. If she likes them enough to order some my life is gunna get crazier then it already is.
Here are some blurry rushed photos of the goods:

chocolate cinnamon & pistachio madeleines

trail mix & chocolate chip

Tarte Tatin

carrot cake & tarte tatin

There they are. I'll let you all know when I hear something!