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Summer Feast with Crustcrumbs

by Jen August 17, 2018
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Summer Feast with Crustcrumbs

When I was in university, I lived off-campus with friends. Thursday night was pub night at our school, and since we rarely felt like making the trek to campus, we would get together with other off-campus pals for what we called Feast. We would buy ingredients, make a dinner (usually something basic like stir-fry), drink (usually something embarrassing like Kool-Aid and vodka), and do Very Grown Up Things like play video games and make couch forts.

It was around that time my friend John Kruusi started experimenting with more complicated cooking. Slowly, our dinners evolved into more complex affairs, with John at the helm. Vodka and Kool-Aid turned into thoughtfully paired wine, and couch forts turned into jazz and conversation. Suddenly, we were Actual Adults. We were also busy, so our weekly dinners turned into every few months, and then every few years.

A couple of summers ago, John and I decided to organize a summer feast photo shoot up in Barrie, Ontario. It was a great weekend spent with friends and food, and for me, a bittersweet reminder of how much we’ve all grown up. John modelled along with our old dinner party friends Sarah and Andrew, and new friends Essa, Justine, and Liz. I did the photos, John did the food and food styling, and Justine did the prop and set styling.

Stock photo of friends toasting with wine at an outdoor summer feast

Outdoor Summer Feast

Andrew recently shared a few of the photos on Instagram, and I decided to go back and finish editing the series. Click here to view the whole gallery.

Adorable Woman Laughing At Dinner Party
Stock photo of someone pouring wine at a dinner party
Sweet potato and wine for a summer feast
Grilling Pork Belly
Friends Doing A Toast On The Dock At Sunset
Aerial stock photo of outdoor summer feast with friends
Summer Feast Place Setting
Clearing Dirty Dishes From The Table
Friends Eating Dinner Outdoors
Stock photo of friends enjoying a summer feast
Close Up Of Hands And Plates During A Dinner Party
Friends toasting with wine at outdoor summer feast
Woman Laughing At Dinner Party
Sunset Over Kempenfelt Bay

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Brunch with Crustcrumbs

by Jen April 12, 2016
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Brunch with Crustcrumbs

I know it’s been a long time since I updated, so I wanted to share some new work I’m doing with food stylist John Kruusi.  John and I teamed up a few years ago to start Crustcrumbs, a creative project to combine my photography and his food styling.  In 2014, we hosted a Thanksgiving photoshoot for Stocksy that was a lot of fun and a huge success.  This year, we’re happy to announce that we’ve officially partnered with Stocksy to produce exclusive food lifestyle content.

One of our first big photoshoots was an epic brunch scene.  John made and styled a series of amazing dishes, and we shot 6 models enjoying the food.  Here are just a few of the menu items:

  • Oysters on sea salt with kimchi and green onion pieces and fried brioche
  • Hot smoked trout with horseradish cream, pickled beets, and savory
  • Roasted tomatoes on the vine with goat cheese rounds
  • Grilled pork chops, roasted bone marrow, roasted Roma tomatoes, grilled maple sausage, and blood sausage
  • Poached eggs with sautéed spinach, hollandaise and toasted bread

You can view the shoot on Stocksy.  Here are some of my favourite images from the series.

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Overhead group brunch party by Crustcrumbs

Messy table after brunch

Messy table after brunch by Crustcrumbs

Friends enjoying a brunch party

Friends enjoying a brunch party by Crustcrumbs

Group of friends enjoying brunch by Crustcrumbs

Group of friends enjoying brunch by Crustcrumbs

Man spreading marmelade on bread by Crustcrumbs

Man spreading marmelade on bread by Crustcrumbs

Check out our growing portfolio of food and lifestyle stock images on Stocksy!

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Year in Review 2014

by Jen January 12, 2015
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Year in Review 2014

Happy New Year!

I know these posts are SO 2014, but I started writing it in December so I may as well post it.  I thought it would be fun to look back on 2014 and do a photography-related Year in Review, from my job and my personal life.

A few notable things from 2014:

  • I sustained a pretty serious concussion in March, so that put a damper on… well, everything.  (And I’m still dealing with post-concussion syndrome 9 months later!)
  • Despite the above, I still managed to add 429 images to my Stocksy portfolio and had my best sales year in stock photography since I started in 2009!  I experienced a whopping 456% growth with Stocksy from 2013 to 2014.  I’m so grateful to be a part of this co-op, and proud of how successful it has become as a small company in such a competitive industry.  Go Stocksy!
  • I got married in August, and by all accounts it was the best wedding ever.
  • This is possibly the first year in my entire life that I didn’t leave the country.  Whoa!

Here are a select few moments from 2014…

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Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

by Jen May 8, 2014
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Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Since October, my friend John Kruusi and I have been running a food blog called Crustcrumbs.  We shoot a variety of different styles of food in the different scenarios in which you would eat it.  Sometimes it’s delicious food, like a big turkey dinner, and sometimes it’s… well, not so delicious.  Like actual recipes straight out of housekeeping magazines from the 70s, made by our favourite local Toronto comedy duo, Terrific Women.  We’re nearing the end of 70s Week on Crustcrumbs, so I thought I would share some behind-the-scenes photos from our shoot.

The Terrific Women are Linda and Joy (Sara Hennessey and Steph Kaliner), two feminists in 1974 who have their own public access cable program.  We wanted to keep up the crappy 70s no-budget look with questionable lighting, too many patterns, and macramé monkeys.  Oh, and the food.

Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

They’re the Terrific Women, and today they’re entertaining.

John did an amazing job finding inspiration for all these (gross) recipes, making everything, and styling the food so it looked like it came straight out of a 1970s clearance bin cookbook.

John prepping food for our shoot.

John in the studio kitchen prepping food for our shoot.

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Prepping the sandwiches for “Pineapple-Ham Spread.”

We even had a designer make custom 1970s-style labels for some of the bottles and cans.

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Custom designed food labels by Sarah Wright.

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Steph & Sara getting ready.

Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Tristan, John & the Terrific Women.

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Our backdrop & counter setup.

Since we were doing two things at once – me shooting stills and Tristan Gough shooting video – we had to figure out the lighting.  We had to decide if we would set up both video lights for filming and strobes for still photography.  Since we weren’t going for a professional, polished look with the photos, ultimately we decided to only light for video, and I took photos behind-the-scenes with my sound blimp like on a film set.  Shooting during filming presents some challenges, but it always makes for some great natural facial expressions:

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Cooking with Linda & Joy is always fun.

So far this week, we’ve posted recipes and videos for Mai-Tai Cocktails, Minced Clam Cheese Dip, Pineapple-Ham Spread, and Pepperoni Salad.  If you visit Crustcrumbs tomorrow, you’ll find a classic 70s dessert.  Spoilers:

What goes in here?

What goes in here?

 

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