the wonderful folks at Willamette Valley Life Magazine asked me to write again for their winter issue, which just came out this week! i so enjoyed putting together some Oregon ingredients (local smoked salmon; eggs from my mom’s hens) for this shoot — and eating it afterwards, of course! this is such a super-quick and delicious breakfast, soft curds of scrambled eggs and melty cream cheese… the smoked salmon really seals the deal, though. it’s one of my all-time faves!
click over to Willamette Valley Life to the Eat column to get the full recipe! enjoy!
way to go with being a published food writer/photographer/all-around awesome person. i have a slightly different version where i use avocado in lieu of the cream cheese. still creamy, still decadent with the smoked salmon and sooooo good!
Oh i love the idea of the avocado instead! Totes going to try it :) And thank you!!
soph i could read a new entry from your blog every day. miss you, your delicious foods, your hubs and sweet pup, and all that jazz. x’s and o’s.
miss YOU! next comes a blog post especially for the dairy- and gluten-free ;) loves!
loved it can’t wait to make it this next week!! i am all about soups these days.
Congratulations. They know a good chef/writer/photographer when they see one!
You should submit this stuff to larger papers. I bet you would get a syndicated column!
Really? Thanks, Cheryl — what a compliment! Perhaps I will :)
Wonderful article, Sophie! It looks sooooo good. I just ate breakfast but I would happily snarf down a plateful of that. BTW, have you ever had that salad with the scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and vinaigrette? Also yummy.
Congrats!! that’s great news for you! :) You do us proud!
Thank you Sophie!!
congratulations! that breakfast looks incredibly delicious even at this late night hour ;-)
Congrats on being published again! Very nice write up and good looking recipe.
Unrelated: Do you mind if I ask what settings you use for saving your photos? Like for web use vs. printing? I’ve never used the “save for web” feature in photoshop, just re-sized them smaller and saved a copy, but after reading more about it I wonder if I should change. Likewise for printing, I always just kept them as large as possible while re-sizing or cropping to the necessary size for printing… I’ve been wondering if I’m leaving some detail on the table though and should be bumping up my dpi or something. Hopefully this makes sense and no worries if you don’t feel like giving out this type of advice on here, or at all… I’ve just been reading too much photoshop stuff tonight and wanted to ask an expert.
my goodness, Jim so sorry for the late reply! it’s been my experience that a good dpi for printing can be as high as 600, but 300 should work also. anywhere in there. my camera doesn’t do HUGE files, so if i want to print something 11×14 i pretty much am going to print at 300dpi, and i’ve found that it looks really good. for web, your dpi is 72. so what i do — like you — is save a copy, changing the dimensions to about 8×12 and the dpi to 72.. just make sure to change the resolution FIRST, and that while doing so, the “constrain proportions” box is unchecked. then recheck the box and change the dimensions in inches. (if it’s not done in this order, you run the risk of distorting the pixels if you didn’t have enough to begin with. but if it came straight from your camera, of course you should have enough!) i hope this makes sense. here’s a link: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/image-resizing/
just remember that all web images are at 72 and you’re good to go :) i was taught to use the “save for web” feature in Photoshop in my web-design classes, but i find that at times they throw out too much information. it’s just my preference, though. sometimes one really needs a small web file, like if a site gives major space limitations? and if so, that’s a good option.
You’re awesome, Sophie! No need to apologize at all and thanks a lot for the detailed response, I wouldn’t have blamed you one bit if you didn’t want to hand out photo editing advice.
I’ve played around with the “save for web” feature a bit since my comment above, but didn’t really like it (didn’t like image quality – probably what you’re referring to – and didn’t find it overly efficient, but that’s probably just me) so haven’t continued to use it. Maybe I’ll try again, but if not, now I’ll be armed with the advice and steps you shared.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate this. I don’t know what I could possibly advise you on, but please let me know if I can ever return the favor! :)
i’m more than happy to blab about photography with you :)
Don’t forget about us little people when yer famous!! :)
HA yeah right ;) thanks girl!!