The Storied Spoon

Hello🌿 Thank you to any and all followers of @thestoriedspoon since I took a very long break since last November to catch up, work, cook/bake via @ordershef and start our own sweet & savory bakes local food business in NYC @lucia_and_le_turk (follow us and order!) 🌿 People kept coming by, and I managed to hit 500 followers. A start to something more, since food writing and photography is still a dream I'm chasing, a delicious dream... 🌿 Look out for some cross promotion posts as I catch up here, starting with Lucia & Le Turk's Rosemary Red Wine Burek, which happened to be one of my favorite photos we took. 🌿 Can't wait to more regularly see what you all are up to and thanks for sticking with it! Hope life is sweet 🍰🍾 #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodwriter #foodblogger #croatian #croatianamerican #burek #borek #redwinerosemary #savory #bakingfromscratch #luciaandleturk #foodbusinessstartup #foodbusiness #smallbusiness #nycbakes #nycfood #foodstyling #fooddelivery #brooklynfood #darkandmoody (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRE876Zl_Gy/?utm_medium=tumblr

Resurrection of the mighty pear in still life. Autumn pear, I'm not done with you🍐 • • • #thestoriedspoon #thefeedfeed #thefeedfeedbaking #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodstyling #foodblogger #foodblog #still#fruit #pear #pears #autummood #autumnpear #imsomartha #yum #instagood #instafood #moodygrams #moody #naturallight #bosc (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQ6fYiFbII/?igshid=6800xdlpt4wy

Back to reposting for The Storied Spoon blog in time for the holiday baking frenzy;) • Brandy Pear Frangipane Tart...very tan and rustic, but plump and delicious all the same. • Updated recipes and photos up via blog link in profile. Pears are my pumpkins🍐please enjoy, friends 🍂 • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #food52grams #feedfeed #feedfeedbaking #foodtographyschool #darkandmoody #imsomartha #yum #instagood #instafood #foodphotography #peartart #pears #pearfrangipane #poire #frenchbaking #tarts (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHEJywyFmIR/?igshid=12kysqi6v96kj

So happy to bring back the Croatian Krafne Doughnuts in newest filling flavors: Cherry Almond and Pistachio Cream, and my second collab with good friend @prairieandpampa , who made her Argentinian Berlinese Doughnuts, which are super similar to my Croatian ones. • Enjoy both old world doughnuts asap, they are prime for fall🍁🍂 • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodstyling #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #homebakersofinstagram #instagood #instafood #f52grams #feedfeedbaking @thefeedfeed #croatian #doughnuts #donuts #filleddoughnuts #krafne #krafna #krofne #carnival #christmasmarket #zagreb #croatia #berlinesas #cherry #pistachio  (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG52_cOFboc/?igshid=102b2t3mh2gj7

My little Halloween project 🤎🌾🍎🎃🪓 Autumnal layers of my Guinness Chocolate and Spiced Carrot Cakes held together by some common ground: Orange Calvados Buttercream, and lightly coated caramel apples. • Recipes for the individual cakes on the blog...Happy Halloween season, everybody! • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodstyling #rustic #fall #autumn #halloween #happyhalloween #october #autumnleaves #caramel #caramelapples #carrotcake #guinnesscake #chocolate #food52grams #instagood #imsomartha #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeedbaking #scaryscene #horrorphotography #foodphotography #foodtographyschool (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGspLD8Fy3G/?igshid=1l81dteykymg2

This pistachio cream deserves a well styled scene 👏. The cream is the magical fuel that powers the newest flavor of my Croatian Krafne Doughnuts. • Creme Patisserie as made in my stories, recipe on blog link in profile in the Fruit Tart post, is combined with uber whipped butter and homemade pistachio paste (so easy!). • The Pistachio Cream complements doughnuts divinely and is worthy of a spoon or two in between fillings 😉 Recipe coming up shortly! • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodphotography #foodphoto #foodtographyschool #food52grams #instagood #instafood #imsomartha #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeedbaking #pistachios #pistachio #cremepatisserie #pastrycream #creamydesserts #doughnutfilling #crememousseline #moussaline #fallvibes #autumnscents #foodstagram #foodstyling #moodygrams (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGmlQ4EFoa8/?igshid=md5nm8r8pevb

Reposting this beauty for fall: Pear, Goat/Blue Cheese, Red Onion, Prosciutto & Thyme Tart. • The tart is a simple, free form pate brisee and the ingredients, especially the pear, are mere minutes in prep and assembly. • To semi quote David Lynch, I'm going to write an epic poem about this tart. • Visit thestoriedspoon.com via link in profile and search "pear"....you shall find what you seek, along with many other savory fruit based tarts! • Enjoy your Sweet & Savory Tart 🍐🧅🥧☕🍃🎉 • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foorwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #tastespotting #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeedbaking @feedfeedbaking #tart #savorytart #rustictart #rustic #thyme #proscuitto #peartart #pear #bluecheese #goatcheese (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGlBB3ZFH5N/?igshid=1dzv7m839tkr

How have I gone over a year without posting my very personal and beloved Croatian Goulash recipe? Red wine braised beef cubes, onion, pepper, a slow cook... • Not only can you find the short version of why this goulash is central to my inner flavor profile and DNA, but you can read the goulash origin story, published @theinquisitiveeater and @porridgemagazine. See links coming soon in Stories... • I know this Croatian Goulash family favorite will warm your belly, and caress your heart. Blog post coming by the evening. The recipe has been tested over my lifetime and my mother and father's, and we're so happy to share it with you all🧡. • This post is also in honor of the October @onourcreativetable challenge for "Comfort Food"🍃 • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #tastespotting #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeed #thefeedfeed #goulash #paprika #croatian #comfortfood #stew #braisedbeef #hungarian #familyrecipes #onourcreativetable (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGXnXX8lMPQ/?igshid=y6mpt4h9qkyd

October is my favorite month, fall is my favorite weather, harvest is my favorite flavor, orange is my favorite color, horror is my favorite film. 🍂 My guy @john_le_turk took this beautiful shot of our Aleister (named for Aleister Crowley). I felt it fit nicely into the feed🖤🍁🎃 • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #cat #cats #catsofinstagram #blackcatsofinstagram #blackcats #blackcatsrule #blackcat #halloween #autumn #fall #october #pumpkins #catscatscats (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGSLO43FG03/?igshid=reb0ls6e8lf6

Somewhere in between the re-shoots and baking came Turkish Chicken Pide, a @john_le_turk creation from traditional Turkish Pide, a flatbread usually topped with sucuk sausage or ground meat. • This pide is lighter, but bouncing with flavor: spiced, roasted bone-in chicken breast, then shredded with sautéed onions & peppers, on a blanket of goats cheese and mozzarella. • These three didn't last more than the shoot and a couple of more hours. The pide dough recipe comes from the sweet & talented @ozlems_turkish_table and the rest is far too easy--check out recipe via blog link in profile! • Make this weekend, you will not regret it🇹🇷 • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #tastespotting #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeed @feedfeed #turkish #ozlemsturkishtable #pide #turkishpide #roastedchicken #pulledchicken #streetfood #sumac #turkishspice (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLERIKl7fG/?igshid=gbolp4pb4ngj

Something delicious this way comes: a dark and moody re-shoot of my beloved Croatian Almond Roll, a classic sweet yeast bread swirled into a roulade shape. 🌿 The texture is something between a babka and a pound cake. Sour cream ensures a moist loaf and, after years of enjoying super sweet Solo Almond Filling from a can, I finally struck out and made my own-- somewhere between Bakewell Tart filling and Frangipane. So easy and doesn't disappoint. 🌿 Recipe is updated on The Storied Spoon blog link in profile, found in top featured posts. This Croatian Almond Roll is my pride and joy, from my mother's family recipes. 🌿 One of the many Austro Hungarian culinary gifts that Croatia received from the land of their empiric influences 🇭🇷. So, take it from a Croatian NY girl, this is the real thing😉. 🌿 My mission is to bring the flavors of Croatia and its influencers😉 to your table, so Almond Roll dances off your lips and into your tummy just as easily as cupcakes do. 🌿 Enjoy the process and beautiful results! 🌿 🌿 #thestoriedspoon #foodblogger #foodstories #feedfeed #feedfeedbaking @feedfeedbaking #croatian #almondroll #almondfilling #frangipane #dough (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGH7JuWF8mZ/?igshid=1l83v2mdwzlzn

New studio space, new window (north light), new photos for one of my favorite recipes just updated on blog link in profile: Spiced Rum Carrot Cake, originating as a Dublin style carrot cake that I used to enjoy at Bewleys Cafe in Dublin. • This update pumps more spice and some dark rum for flavor, plus a spiced cream cheese frosting. This autumnal scene got my juices flowing. I feel myself in this weather and light🍃🍂. I admit, I prefer carrot cake to pumpkinmania 🎃. • This recipe is a great one, and make sure to click onto thestoriedspoon.com for the updated recipe and tales of Bewleys Cafe in late 90s Dublin, a very special place and time, and a very special carrot cake. • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #tastespotting #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeed #feedfeedbaking @feedfeedbaking #firstweeat #moody #carrotcake #spiced #spicedcarrotcake #rum #autumn #fall #pumpkins #orange #firstweeat (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF91JREF0ZW/?igshid=qqx8xsel4iss

Autumn still life by my @john_le_turk, a picturesque corner of a spiced rum carrot cake re-shoot coming tomorrow morning! 🍂 Autumn is our favorite time, and these colors and textures are partly reasons why...what's your favorite part of autumn? 🍂 Stay tuned for the whole scene tomorrow 😉 🍂 🍂 🍂 #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #firstweeat #biteshot #stilllife #autumn #fall #autumnal #flowers #pumpkins #gourds (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF5ZRcuFWu-/?igshid=1wjls3yxi4eh

My guy's sumptuous Burger Au Poivre never looked so good💥Perfect for fall suppers--⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Happy to say the newly named blog The Storied Spoon is updated and all revised photos & recipes so far (more to come) are there, most of the newly updated ones are in top three featured posts at top. If not there, just search and you will find...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This Au Poivre burger and creamy brandy peppercorn sauce will come together in less than 30 minutes. Find some arugula and brioche buns and you're in business.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out thestoriedspoon.com for all my most delicious and thrice tested reshoots📸, which I'll be found all fall. New recipes, photos, collabs, & stories coming too!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #tastespotting #homecooksofinstagram #feedfeed @feedfeed #burger #burgers #meat #groundbeef #peppercorn #brioche #aupoivre #burgeraupoivre #hamburger #gastropubburger (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFwjVu9nh8A/?igshid=c4tvjbgnfz6s

Working on my savory re-shoots, including some Turkish Pide, and revamping Spiced Apple Gallettes with Calvados butter, but I wish I had the time today to make this newfound Finnish Pulla bread🇫🇮 • Pulla, also called Nisu, is a sweet cardamom bread usually served with coffee or tea. The adorable little loaves have a subtle, but sweet flavor and the recipe comes from @tarateaspoon. • Ushering in the Autumn weather that came and went (come back!) with Pulla cardamom bread, butter, jam, and ☕. • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #tastespotting #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeed #feedfeedbaking @feedfeedbaking #finnish #finland #nisu #pulla #bread #cardamom #coffeebreak #autumnbread (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkMyAGlrKU/?igshid=3jv2f3ouvenk

Re-shoot #3: Turkish Menemen, a more fanciful mosaic than its overly photographed cousin, Shakshouka. • The simplest of ingredients: onion, hot peppers, tomatoes, a dash of paprika & sumac spice, feta, and a little mozzarella for good measure. The eggs are dropped in, then swirled around just enough. This version includes Sucuk (Soo-Jook) spiced sausage, which is more than a little addictive. • Menemen is served with some crusty bread, along with typical savory breakfast fare, like cucumber, fera, olives... • Updated recipe and photos will be up any minute now😉🤞 on new site thestoriedspoon.com (old post still up on aquarreloffeasts.com). Time for a nap next to my Turkish NY guy😴 • • • #thestoriedspoon #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #feedfeed #turkish #menemen #turkishmenemen #turkisheggs #shakshouka #sucuk #turkishbreakfast #breakfast (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFh7k6AF5cE/?igshid=1o57c0nv65u6p

There's no resisting a quick revisit to this Grape, Leek, and Burrata/Goat Cheese Galette with Fresh Oregano & Thyme now that oodles of late summer grapes are about. 🌿 We are currently moving to our new domain for The Storied Spoon, but until complete, you'll find the recipe via link in profile and scroll down or search out grape and you will arrive at your destination. 🌿 Lots of change coming: new domain thestoriedspoon.com (soon!), pdf guides to sweet and savory baking and Croatian bakes and comfort foods, moving quite scare-dy-cat like to artificial light in the coming weeks thanks to my Turk's dad's photo gear, tethered shooting soon after, more props, more backdrops, new fall recipes, rewriting and shooting old ones, and more beautifully spun tales--written, culinary, and visual--to bring some Rustic, Croatian, sometimes misanthropic but always empathic heart and hearth to you on the regular;) 🌿 🌿 🌿 #aquarreloffeasts #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriters #foodphoto #foodphotography #foodtography #foodtographyschool #imsomartha #yum #instagood #foodgrams #f52grams #food52 #eater #foodgawker #tastespotting #homebakersofinstagram #feedfeed #feedfeedbaking @feedfeedbaking #galette #tart #crostata #grapes #savory #burrata #rustic #herbs #goatcheese #leeks (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVFNYAlGdA/?igshid=kwc70em15hgc