Aloha!
Hi and welcome to my site! I’m Debbie - the Pixel Chef – a freelance photographer, media creative and lover of food, walking, yoga and cycling.
On the Pixel Chef Blog you’ll find lots of my photos along with recipes for cooking up digital manipulations. You'll also find real recipes - with more photos - to help you cook up a storm in the kitchen!
In 2024 I'm planning to breathe a bit of life back into this neglected old Blog as well as developing my Substack (under the same name). It's early days yet but I have a lovely long list of ideas so as they say watch this space!
A long weekend in Prague
A LONG WEEKEND IN PRAGUE A LONG WEEKEND IN PRAGUE At Christmas there was a great big box under the tree from our children Tom and Reya (well they are 19 and 24!). It was one of those Russian doll presents – boxes with in boxes until finally there was just an envelope. Inside the…
Blustery morning walk
I have got out of the habit recently of going for my morning walk and I woke up this morning realising just how much I had missed it! I don’t mind admitting that I was in a bit of a grump yesterday – it has not been an easy week and I was generally feeling…
That was January 2019
Well I blinked and that was the first month of 2019 done and dusted! It was a strange month in many ways as it was our first proper taste of having an empty nest. Our son Tom moved to Bristol at the end of November last year but it wasn’t long before our daughter Reya…
Hello 2019 – better late than never!
News Years resolution 1 – stop procrastinating. Well that failed spectacularly – January 14th and I still haven’t published a single Blog post. I’ve been scribbling things down but until now nothing has made iit onto the virtual page. So here goes – hello 2019! If you look back on this Blog you will see…
And so that was 2018!
AND SO THAT WAS 2018 What a year! Where do I start? As usual I have left it until the very last minute to sort photos for, and write this post, so I’ll just let the photos speak for themselves with just a brief run down of the main highlights! My son Tom graduated from…
In remembrance of Sydney Bacon
I first published this post in 2014 and it seems very fitting to republished today on the 100th anniversary of the armistice. Amazingly my Dad discovered this newspaper amongst his own fathers memorabilia yesterday. This morning I will be going to our local service to remember all of those who perished in this and other…
That was October
This post is a bit late coming after a tempête de merde of a week last week – I won’t go into details but many things decided to conspire against us both personally and in our business so it was not a good time! Thank goodness for yoga! Anyway those who know me know that I’m…
Welcome back pixel palettes
There is something very satisfying about making these palettes! One day i might use them for decorating a room but for the time being I’ll just enjoying playing around with the colours from my photos! Palettes one and two were made from photos from this mornings walk which was dull and damp.
Oxford dreams
Over 10 years ago a little girl had a dream. She dreamed that she would be a writer and that she would study English at Oxford University. Fast forward to October 2018 and that little girl – our daughter Reya – headed off from Norfolk up to take up her place at Trinity College, Oxford…
Food and recipes
Let’s make Kimchi!
Hello there – how are we all doing in Lockdown 2.0? Like many of the people I speak to at the moment we are finding this one much tougher than Lockdown 1.0. Back in the spring it was all rather new and strange but the sun was shining and we had sour dough and zoom…
Dryathlon day 3: feeling souper!
One of the things I remember very clearly about the first few days of the Dryathlon last year is the greatly improved quality of sleep that you get when you go to bed alcohol free. Now I’m not saying that I collapse into bed in a drunken stupor every night but even a couple of…
Easter chocolate fest!
After yesterday’s meaty scoff fest, day two of our Easter ‘eat in’ features some lovely chocolatey goodness cooked up by my daughter Reya over the last couple of days. And as I type yet another gooey biscuit has arrived at my desk warm from the oven – resulting in a very sticky key board! The…