Some time ago I decided to start documenting my family's recipes. My mom comes from Perú, my father is Argentinean, my grandparents are Chinese and Spanish, so the food at home was extremely diverse.

Just before deciding to move out from home, I decided all this needed to be documented. This is how a journey of documenting more than 60 recipes began for 8 years. Photography of each dish, copywriting of the recipes and graphic design of the book were done by me.






Here are some details of the book and the process I followed to make plus some tips cause everything doesn't always go as planned 😅


As my two previous photobooks (Erasmus photobook and China trip photobook) I decided to print in Blurb (Even though I wish Blurb have sponsored this post, this is not sponsored just honest review haha)

Biggest Learnings of Food Photography as Amateur 

  - Learn how to do a balance composition, like adding extra elements to the picture, maybe some ingredients, a spoon, another plate, a glass.
  - Play with color contrast and textures!
  - Take the photos fast! (you can tell when the soup you are doing a photo is cold or the ice cream is melting)





Before making this book I hadn't had any experience in food photography. I started documenting my family recipes just one year before I move away from home, I was 17 years and this was 2011 (left photo). I finally got to finish it in 2019 (right photo). This is the reason that pictures in the book are diverse in quality, they not only reflect my family cuisine but also reflect 8 years of learning and improvement.

 Había usado caramelos duros de todos colores pero en el horno terminaron todos naranjas y rojos...

Christmas Season starts! and what nicer gesture than giving cookies to our loved ones! (here is so hot lately that baking is almost imposible... so if you dont have to deal with 40c degrees, bake for me lol). So, this are my top 6 favorite cookie recipes
Empieza la época navideña y que más lindo gesto que regalar galletitas! (la verdad que con el calor que esta haciendo acá en los últimos días, prender el horno es como un suicidio; así que esto va más dirigido a los que en esta etapa del año no tienen que lidiar con 40 grados de calor jaja)
Sin más estas son mis recetas de galletas favoritas!:

 Crafting as well as baking clear my mind for a while and take me away from all this "University world" We all need a little bit of this in our lives from time to time!
En verdad cocinar o hacer alguna manualidad, te despeja un rato además que es super entretenido
 Now to the recipe, the original one was filled with chocolate, but, come on! I live in Argentina, so I filled with Dulce de Leche, much easier, much yummier! So here is the recipe in English is from La receta de la Felicidad's Blog, one of my favorite cooking blogs!!
La receta original lo rellenaba con chocolate, pero me pareció un picardía no rellenarlos con dulce de leche viviendo en Argentina! además es mucho más fácil jaj. La receta la saque del blog: La receta de la Felicidad, uno de mis blogs favoritos de cocina!

I almost never take step by step photos because my camera end all dirty, I really admire blogger who takes step by step photo recipes! But this time I try with my cellphone and make a little video on Instagram:
Casi nunca tomo fotos paso a paso de la comida, porque la camara termina toda sucia y es super complicado, admiro a las bloggeras que toman fotos paso a paso en sus comidas! Pero esta vez intente grabar un pequeño videito en Instagram mostrando paso a paso:
5.  Sacarlas y hornearlas a 170º grados por 5 a 8 minutos
6.  Esperamos a que se enfríen y las rellenamos

Nota: Lo del freezer es importante porque si no es dificil cortarlas, y después se vuelven a meter al freezer para que en el horno mantenga la formita redondita perfecta.