As I was thinking about what I could illustrate for the Fave Memory challenge, one thing kept spilling out onto the sketchbook. My brainstorming was full of things my husband and I have cooked together with our family in the past thirteen years. I decided to play a little bit of a Newlywed Game with Josh, and I texted him to ask what some of his favorite things were to cook together.

Tacos were almost top of the list for both of us so I ran with it! The best part of cooking with my husband is when we crank up the music, and we hang out in the kitchen working together. It's super relaxed, and his wonky work schedule means it's not something that happens all the time so it's pretty special to me. I let him lead, and I answer him with lots of "yes chef!" as he asks for this onion to get chopped or that lettuce to get washed while he cooks up the hamburger meat. And when all the ingredients are ready, taco night feels like a party in our house. We put all the ingredients in small bowls on the table, and our kids have a blast building their perfect tacos!

Picture this, a warm summers day in my garden and the bees were buzzing. The sweet scent of tomatoes freshly picked from the greenhouse, beetroots dug up and peas popping out of their jackets. The colours were truly amazing. We were set for lunch, we just needed to add lettuce and Feta cheese! We laid the table, and added the daisy chains that we had been making across the centre.
It was delicious.... until I noticed that I had half a caterpillar on my plate! We did laugh until our bellies hurt and I did join in after a while. Sorry caterpillar ....

This is a pattern that I created in response to my Fave Memory....
Picture this, a warm summers day in my garden and the bees were buzzing. The sweet scent of tomatoes freshly picked from the greenhouse, beetroots dug up and peas popping out of their jackets. The colours were truly amazing. We were set for lunch, we just needed to add lettuce and Feta cheese! We laid the table, and added the daisy chains that we had been making across the centre.
It was delicious.... until I noticed that I had half a caterpillar on my plate! We did laugh until our bellies hurt and I did join in after a while. Sorry caterpillar ....

Chicken Cacciatore, perfect for a summer feast

A yummy Mediterranean toast with grilled aubergine and cherry tomatoes, topped with Bufala mozzarella and a spinach-garlic pesto!

A luscious, inviting tart that's sure to do justice to your favorite heirloom tomato varieties!

FOOD GEOMETRY - UPPERCASE MAGAZINE

It's tomato season in the northern hemisphere, and what a variety! When I lived in France, most of the years spent were in the region of Provence. One of my very favorite recipes was tomates à la provençale, a simple peasant tomato dish that requires fresh beefy tomatoes, a day's old baguette, green herbs that you can pick in the countryside, and pure olive oil. Put it in the oven and voilà! Coincidentally, one of my favorite authors, American food writer MFK Fisher, felt the same way about the same Provence where she lived too. Bon appétit!

Food Geometry | In thinking about the geometry of food, I needed to look no further than my garden, ripe with all the makings for a grilled pizza: tomatoes, chives, basil & oregano. As a letterpress printer I like experimenting with forms, and pressure printing is a wonderful way to capture the details in plants. I arranged the leaves of the ingredients on my Vandercook 4 press, inked them up, layed cotton paper over top, and rolled the carriage down the press bed to impress the images into the page. The tomatoes were a beautifully explosive disaster, so I gave myself permission to print circles instead. I then went back & printed the tomato leaves overtop the red circles; the perfect final touch. As I printed the aromatic oils were released from the leaves, making my mouth water. The hand lettering was done with a fountain pen, rather than wood or metal type, to capture the spontaneity and ease of my new favorite late-summer meal.

Food Geometry

A simple, quick, no mess spaghetti recipe. FInely diced veggies and symmetry everywhere! Food geometry is fun!

A modern geometric representation of traditional dish ingredients from my home country Syria. It is called "Okra with Cilantro" and it is served with rice. The ingredients written in Arabic are: okra, meet, tomato sauce, oil, tomatoes, cilantro, garlic, salt & peper and lemon.

I created this thin crust pizza recipe illustration for the Food Geometry challenge. As I started sketching ideas of foods that could relate to geometry, pizza just kept coming back into my mind. You can practice fractions with pizza, which makes it the perfect homework food!

Can you spot examples of these geometry terms in my pizza recipe?
• tangent
• right triangle
• concentric circles
• squares
• line segments
• radius
• perpendicular lines
• vertex
• acute angles

I love this homemade thin crust pizza recipe because it's easy - you can bake it from scratch and have it on the table in about 30 minutes! The crust also doesn't have the yeasty flavor we've experienced with some other pizza recipes we've tried in the past.

And if you're on a budget, this thin crust pizza recipe is a no brainer. For the cost of about 2 frozen pizzas, you can pick up enough supplies to make way more homemade pizzas that don't contain tons of preservatives and other random ingredients found in the freezer section.

The perfectly imperfect shapes of veggies and pasta make delicious and nutritious FOOD GEOMETRY.

Food Geometry. This is a super healthy and super easy to make pizza, despite its geometric precision ;o)

The food with the most elegant of geometry. It comes in squares, triangles, circles, and toruses (bagel 'zas). This piece illustrates the mathematical beauty of pizza in all its form, from the ingredients up.