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New day, new ideas. Puffs. This time I made them w

New day, new ideas.
Puffs. This time I made them with savoury filling. You can make them with smoked salmon, crab or lobster meat (crab sticks will work too 😉). Purée fish with cream cheese in food processor, fold the mixture into whipped cream, add some seasoning and herbs and voila! Smooth and delicious filling is ready

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#baking #puffpastry #puffs #bakedfromscratch #foodphotography #bakingfromscratch #foodpics #foodpic #foodpictures #foodphotographyandstyling #horsdoeuvres

Tears on my plate. Maybe I have to be strong, ma

Tears on my plate.
Maybe I have to be strong,
maybe I have to be cheerful,
maybe I have to be encouraging.
Well, today I am not.
I know we all have problems
and it doesn’t make me feel better.
I know we all are overwhelmed
And I am no different.
The heaviness in my chest doesn’t let me breath.
But I want it to go away.
Maybe I’m scared,
maybe I’m worrying too much
But no one could see.
And I was trying to be strong and cheerful
But I was lying.
And today I found myself sitting at the table and not knowing what to do and where to go.
And I felt numb
And I don’t know any other way -
I will squeeze my feelings
into a small drops and let them fall
On my plate.
And you may say - this is so dark.
And I agree
But I’m searching for the Light, how can I find it?
You tell me
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Even in this dark time don’t stop - keep searching for the Light
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#tears #tearsonmyplate #foodphotography #foodphotoshoot #darkfoodphotography #mood #moodygrams #darkfoodphoto #thelight

Morning coffee. I bought this translucent china c

Morning coffee.
I bought this translucent china cup in a thrift store. I was stunned by it’s simple and fragile beauty. According to the stamp on the bottom of the cup it was made in “Occupied Japan”. I didn’t know that goods produced during military occupation of Japan (1945-1952) were marked this way. I grew up in Ukraine and WWII history we knew was focused on Europe. My knowledge of events happened during that time on another part of the globe is quite limited. I started searching and reading to learn more about that part of the history I wasn’t aware of. Who knew that the purchase of the cup would trigger something like this. I’m glad though that it happened.
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#cup #coffee #morningcoffee #history #foodphotography #darkfoodphoto #foodpictures #foodpix #darkfoodphotography #darkfoodpictures

Gourds. You can love them or hate but these incred

Gourds. You can love them or hate but these incredible nature creations will never go unnoticed. They come in different shapes, sizes and colours and help adding an uniqueness to any fall decoration.
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#fall #falldecor #fallcolors #gourds #foodphotography #darkfoodphoto #foodpics #foodpic #darkfoodphotography #foodphotographyandstyling

The best way to celebrate fall is going for a hike

The best way to celebrate fall is going for a hike. Go to the forest and get connected to it’s spirit, breath and get connected to yourself
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#nature #forest #fall #autumn #darkphotography #darkpicture #outdoors #outdoorphotography #beautifulnature #ontarioparks #ajax #conservationarea

Insanely delicious apple pie. Thinly rolled puff p

Insanely delicious apple pie. Thinly rolled puff pastry dough covered with hazelnut flour and caramelised apple slices. Crispy and addictive usually gone in no time.
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#applepie #pie #baking #food #foodphotography #bakedfromscratch #bakingathome #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpics #freshlybaked #foodpictures

Another cake for my husband’s birthday. This is

Another cake for my husband’s birthday. This is what happens when you have a big family 😀 - one cake is not enough.
Inside - raspberry coulis, raspberry cremeux, pistachio mousse and sponge cake
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#cake #foodphotography #cakestagram #baking #foodphotographyandstyling #cakesofinstagram #moussecake #raspberry #pistacchio #foodpictures #bakingfromscratch #foodpics #bakedfromscratch

Birthday cake for my husband. Meringue with hazeln

Birthday cake for my husband.
Meringue with hazelnuts and cashew and cream anglaise whipped with butter, baileys and rum (Kyiv cake)
Decor - caramel vase with white chocolate spheres
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#birthdaycake #kyivcake #cake #cakedecorating #cakesofinstagram #baking #bakedfromscratch #darkfoodphoto #foodphotography #bakingfromscratch #darkfoodphotography #foodpictures #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpix

Beautiful sunset at Kasshabog lake. Precious memor

Beautiful sunset at Kasshabog lake. Precious memories of so quickly passed summer
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#summer #sunset #lake #ontario #kawarthas #ontariocanada #ontariotourism #kasshaboglake #cottage

Napoleon is no doubt one of my favourite cakes. It

Napoleon is no doubt one of my favourite cakes. It’s light and delicious. It takes quite some time to make it. Rolling all these thin layers (this one has twenty!) is a nightmare. I wish I could invent something to make this process more enjoyable.
But the result worth it. Twenty flaky layers soaked in caramel-Baylis cream are sooo good! 🤤
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#baking #cake #napoleoncake #bakedgoods #bakedfromscratch #darkfoodpictures #darkfoodphoto #foodstagram #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpix #foodphotography #foodie #bakingfromscratch

Celebrating last long weekend of summer with pavlo

Celebrating last long weekend of summer with pavlova.
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#dessert #pavlova #foodphotography #darkfoodphoto #baking #bakedfromscratch #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpictures #foodpics #cake #bakingfromscratch #meringue

Raspberry-martini zephyr. Very light, delicious a

Raspberry-martini zephyr.
Very light, delicious and beautiful dessert
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#dessert #zephyr #baking #bakingfromscratch #foodphotography #darkfoodphotography #foodpics #foodpictures #darkfoodphoto

Meringue roulade with pistachio cream and raspberr

Meringue roulade with pistachio cream and raspberry coulis.
Very flavourful and tender dessert. I made pistachio paste myself and the colour of it wasn’t pretty. So it made me worried how the cream is going to look like. Surprisingly it got quite nice pistachio colour and very distinguished flavour.
Unfortunately, the number of people who were able to enjoy this dessert was limited to one family. I can only say it was very delicious.
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#meringue #dessert #pistachio #meringueroulade #foodphotography #foodphotographyandstyling
#baking #bakingfromscratch #darkfoodphoto #darkfoodphotography #bakedfromscratch

More peaches. This time from Leamington, Ontario.

More peaches. This time from Leamington, Ontario. If you are looking for the giant beautiful peaches this is the place you should go. This weekend we visited Leamington/Kingsville area and lake St Clair. More than 880 km in one day. We brought home fresh peaches, apples, melon, tomatoes and plenty of beautiful pictures
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#ontario #ontariofarmers #localfarm #peach #peaches #leamingtonontario #ontariotravel #ontariotourism #foodphotography #foodphotographyandstyling #darkfoodphoto #darkfoodphotography

Plum galette. For some reason I thought it would b

Plum galette. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to have something deliciously messy on Monday.
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#baking #bakingfromscratch #plum #galette #foodphotography #bakedfromscratch #pie #monday #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpix

Peaches in glass bowl. Love the colour of this bow

Peaches in glass bowl. Love the colour of this bowl.
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#peach #foodphotography #foodstagram #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpictures #foodpics #glass #colour

Coconut and cherry birthday cake. I was worrying t

Coconut and cherry birthday cake.
I was worrying that it will fall apart while we were counting potholes on 401-W today. We had to drive it to an opposite side of GTA. Thank goodness, everything went well and we delivered the cake in one piece.
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#cake #birthdaycake #baking #bakedfromscratch #foodphotography #darkfoodphoto #bakingfromscratch #cakedecorating #foodpics #foodpictures #darkfoodphotography #cakestagram #cakesofinstagram

Night sky at Kasshabog lake . . . . . . #nightsky

Night sky at Kasshabog lake
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#nightsky #night #kawarthas #ontario #summer #darkphotography #darkphotos #darkpicture #darkpic #darkphoto

S’mores. Whoever created this gooey and messy co

S’mores. Whoever created this gooey and messy cottage dessert was a genius. And this is not about the taste, which is good by the way, but more about all the fun to make it - melting marshmallows, dropping pieces of chocolate, breaking crackers and licking sticky fingers. Everyone loves them. The taste of s’mores triggers the best memories for most of us.
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#cottage #smores #vacation #foodphotography #baking #dessert #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpics #marshmallow #foodpictures

Vacations... So good to slow down, recharge my bat

Vacations... So good to slow down, recharge my batteries and reset my mind. Too much has happened in my life in the past few months. I desperately needed a holiday when I can just sit and read a book or write a journal and savour a peach
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#vacation #peach #foodphotography #foodphoto #vacationmood #relaxing #foodpics #foodphotographyandstyling #foodpictures

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