About Chef Julianna
Chef Julianna, that’s me! I am a long-time foodie and collector of cookbooks. My daytime job is that of an educator in a very busy high school, so most of my cooking is done on weekends and holidays. My greatest joy is to travel the world, experience various cultures through food, and to bring home my treasured recipes to try out on friends! My recipe box is full of dishes like, “Maher’s Mom’s Green Beans” from a trip to Egypt or Kai Pad Phet from a cooking school in Luang Prabang, Laos. Much of my globe-trotting has been in Asia, so my favourite recipes often reflect this. I have also been following food and health trends for as long as I can remember. It all started with “gourmet cooking” when I was yet in high school. My best friend’s mom introduced me to things that weren’t generally eaten in my home – things like Quiche Lorraine and Coq au Vin. Then in my 20’s, T. and I cooked up a storm for our dinner parties using Diane Clement’s “Chef on the Run” and Gourmet magazines. I have flirted with no fat cooking, vegetarian cooking, wokking, and much more, all the way through the decades to our current trends of fresh, healthy and local. The bottom line is that I have always enjoyed the creative aspect of preparing a sensational meal for friends and family. I have found that it brings us together on so many levels. After all it’s the one thing that every human on the planet has in common – we all love to eat!
About me as a food photographer: please be patient with me as I learn this new craft. I have always taken pictures of food, but staring at all the professional images we see on the internet today, and in the polished food journalism cookbooks that have flooded the market has raised the bar! I will be playing with this digital art and in time, hope to capture some mouth-watering shots of my recipes.
Foodie On Board 
81 Responses to “About Chef Julianna”
Re: photos – Stick with it. Everyone gets better over time (believe me, I know). Ken
Thanks so much Ken! I really appreciate the encouragement! Having just started blogging, there is a lot to learn at once. It can be a bit overwhelming actually, but I figure that as long as we are having fun, that’s all that matters! Oh and I love your blog, by the way – your photographs are awesome! Cheers!
Beautiful blog, beautiful food & beautiful photos! I’m so happy Fiesta Friday provided the opportunity for me to find your site. I look forward to checking out all of your previous posts and the ones yet to come!
Hey, thanks for the lovely compliments! This is a great way to find other people’s blogs, isn’t it? I love your blog too and am really looking forward to discovering more of your beautiful posts!
Hi Nice to meet you Chef Juliana! You have a lovely blog! I am impressed with your cooking skills and versatility. ! And you are absolutely right- We all love to eat and food has a great way of bringing people together! That’s what I love about cooking too! 🙂
Nice to meet you too, Indu! I really like your blog too and am looking forward to following you. I love Indian food and saw a number of yummy recipes on your site that I would love to try. Thanks so much for visiting my blog and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
G’day, Julianna! Thanks for stopped by my blog. You have so many wonderful recipes! And I absolutely agree with you- we all love to eat 😀
Mila
Hey there Mila! So nice to hear from you. I’m glad that you are enjoying my recipes and isn’t it wonderful that we are also surrounded by so many great bloggers who also love to eat? 🙂 Too much fun! Have a great week!
Thanks for visiting my blog! Yours is amazing! I can totally relate to your passion about travelling and discover new forms of food while doing it, is the same reason I started blogging about it as well.
And your pics are pro quality! They’ll be an inspiration to me that are slowly learning and trying to improve mine! Cheers! I’ll be visiting often…
Well, I am excited to follow your blog too! I make soup every week and so I can’t wait to see what you are cooking up! Yes, travelling certainly opens up our cooking repertoire and it’s nice to meet someone who has had the same experience. About the pics…I am laughing – I am really only learning too and working away at it, but it is fun and so that spurs me on! Have a lovely week and I can’t wait to visit your blog again soon!
Hi Julianna
You bring Sunshine into my life with your blog so please come over to http://www.Shivaaydelights.com and see what award is awaiting you!
Much love D x
Hi Dimple. You are so sweet to send me such a beautiful award this morning. I will definitely accept it and spread the sunshine. Many thanks, I really appreciate your thoughtfulness!
Hi Juliana I also nominated you for the sunshine award. But looks like you already got it.! maybe i should nominate someone else? Anyways wanted you to know! http://indusinternationalkitchen.com/2014/03/12/sunshine-award-feels-good-to-be-appreciated/
LOL! Isn’t this funny? I guess we’re just a couple of sunny people! Thanks so much for nominating me, anyway. You are very kind. I hope you have a lovely week!
thanks yes! it is indeed funny! thanks to you too for nominating me! 🙂
Thanks for the like on my Lemon Coconut Cookies post. Thrilled to discover your blog which is beautiful. I have a ways to go on that score! Lol. I can relate to needing to learn the photography stuff a bit better! I’m guessing reading your cookbook list that you are a fellow Canadian?
My pleasure! I absolutely love the combo of lemon and coconut, so I know I would love these cookies! And I noticed that they are from a Bonnie Stern cookbook – one of my favourite cookbook authors! Yes, I am Canadian too – from BC, how about you?
London ON by way of Montreal, Toronto and Hfx; married to a Winnipeg boy who loves to cook!
Well, so good to meet a fellow Canadian on the blogosphere! 🙂
Hi Julianna, Just wanted you to know that I nominated you for the Dragon’s award. 🙂 http://indusinternationalkitchen.com/2014/04/10/dragons-loyalty-and-more-sunshine-awards/
Hi Julianna,
Thanks for liking and following my blog. I am impressed and motivated by the great work that you are doing in your blog, and look forward to reading future posts!
Thank you so much for recently dropping by my blog, Julianna! I have enjoyed looking at yours. I am looking forward to checking out your recipes. You say you are a new photographer, but your pictures are really beautiful! Best wishes to you in your cooking and blogging!
Hi Shari! My pleasure! You have an amazing blog!! I love your photos and your really creative, beautiful recipes! I am really looking forward to following you. So glad you like my pics! I am enjoying taking food pics and will learn more as time goes on! 😀
I’ve really been enjoying exploring “Foodie on Board”. It sounds as though we have similar motivations for both cooking and blogging, and I’m looking forward to more great recipes and photographs.
Hey Georgina! I’m so glad to hear that! I am looking forward to exploring your blog too! I’m going there right now! Cheers! 😀
Hi Julianna – I suddenly realised that I hadn’t read this – what an interesting background to your cooking! It’s funny how we have gone from recipe cards, clippings, notebooks and frenzied scratchings on the telephone to blogging! I assume that you have come a long way in your photography skills since you wrote this as your photos are always superb!
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Thanks to Lori, I’ve had a quick browse through your posts and they all look amazing!!! Looking forward to following you and your future posts! Farianti 😊
Your blog looks awesome! Can’t wait to try your recipes, I look forward to following you 🙂
-April
Well, how lovely! I hope I can keep posting recipes that you are going to enjoy! 😀 Thanks so much for following me – I really appreciate it!
Chef Julianna,
I would like to say ‘Thank You’ for always leaving encouraging comments and for showing some love. I appreciate your time visiting my blog. I hope you accept this ‘Dragon’s Loyalty’ Award. No matter what you decide (participating or not), the award is yours! 😉
http://thenotsocreativecook.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/dragons-loyalty-award-6/
xx Jhuls
Hi Jhuls. Thanks so much for the nomination for this award. You are so very kind to think of me and I really appreciate it. I just wanted to let you know that Indu nominated me for the same award in April and I accepted it. I’m never really sure how these awards work, but do you want to nominate a person who hasn’t got that award yet? No matter what, thanks a bunch! 😀
Of course, whether you got so many awards before or not at all, you deserve this award! 😉 See you at FF, Chef Julianna! 😀
Ahhh, you are so sweet! 😀
Good Morning! I would love to nominate you for this award. 🙂 http://wp.me/p4bcab-PM
Hi Arl! Wow, really? I’m not sure I can live up to that title!!LOL! But you are so very kind to include me in the nominations and I will get to work on the post! Wow, how to pick a favourite song out of millions – now this is a challenge!
LOL 🙂 Thank you and you definitely deserve the title. You have inspired me to get in the kitchen and create!! 🙂 It is a work in progress! Thanks for all your support of my blog always!
Really, I think we are all just inspiring each other :-). You should see what I’m doing in my kitchen as we speak
Sure glad that blogging isn’t live 😉 Can you just imagine?
What a hilarious thought, you are so funny! I am setting at my desk at work and a smile just broke across my face. One of the engineers looked at me quite funny. Hehe 🙂 If blogging were live and in my kitchen it would be a seen from the “I Love Lucy Show” Ha! And you are so correct about all of us inspiring each other. Guess I better get back to work. 😉
Yes, I Love Lucy would describe many of the scenes in my kitchen too!! 😀 Haha, but I think all of us sneak a bit of blog checking into our workday! 🙂
Oops I meant scene not seen. 🙂
Hi Julianna! I am not sure if you have gotten this award yet, but I just had to give it to you! I have so appreciated how you always come by and read what I write and leave super encouraging comments! This is why I am giving you the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award! For more info go here:
Hey Lori! So kind of you to nominate me for this lovely award! I am very honoured! I will have to get to work on my response. Have a wonderful week! Cheers, Julianna
Take your time Julianna! Appreciate you!
Thanks! 🙂
Hello Julianna 😀 I have nominated you for the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award 😀 http://sarahslittlekitchen.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/wow-another-award/
Hi Sarah. Thanks so much for nominating me for this lovely award. I am always honoured and surprised when people nominate me and I really appreciate it! Lori has also nominated me for the award and I will mention that both of you nominated me when I respond. Thanks so much!
Cheers, Julianna
Hey! Thanks for the follow. I really love how your blog looks – it’s super pretty and I think the recipes sound awesome! 🙂
Oh you’re so welcome, Mrs. Choux! I love the look of your blog too and I am really looking forward to following it! 🙂
Hey Julianna, do you want to join our WP Pinterest group board? Here is my post about it http://wp.me/p4eIMh-dV Let me know if you are interested, would love to have you:)
Hi Lily. Yes, I would be interested. I already have a Foodie On Board Pinterest account, but I am really behind on it. I am on holidays now, so I will have a bit more time to get caught up and then join your group as well. I’ll be in touch soon! Thanks so much for thinking of me. I really appreciate it! 😀
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I can relate to you in that I am a teacher who loves to cook – and blog! Haven’t really got down to the fine art of photography… but maybe one day. Awesome blog!
So nice to meet you! Sounds like we have a few things in common! As for the photography, I consider it a work in progress. Really happy you are enjoying my blog! 😀
Nice to meet you too. Yes – I’ll most definitely be keeping up with your blog! 🙂
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Hi Julianna! What a cosy and welcoming blog you have… I am a travel addict but also a foodie, so expect my visit around here more often! Congratulations on your blog 😉
Well, so nice to meet you! I am really glad that you like my blog. It sure seems like we have a lot in common, so I’ll be heading over to your blog to check it out too! 😀
😀 nice to meet you too!! Yes we do have lots in common and I will be around here more often then you think 😀
Awesome! 😀
Thank you for stopping by and following my blog. You have so many delicious sounding recipes. I can’t wait to try some of them out.
I hope you like them, Natalie! Let me know when you have had a chance to try out some of my recipes! 😀
Oh …my..goodness! Your page is beautiful! I love your pics and recipes! 💜💜💜. Thanks for following me! Can’t wait to test more from you! 😊
Aww, I’m so glad you like my blog! And, I’m looking forward to discovering more of yours!! 😀
Oh my gosh, I lost track of you! I’m glad I found your blog again. So you are a high school educator?! I work in elementary education and have a son in his junior year of high school education. 🙂 Look forward to re-discovering your posts.
I’m very glad that you rediscovered my blog! And it is so nice to know that you are a teacher too! What a busy life though, to be a mom and a teacher! How the heck do you find the time to blog while juggling all of the other stuff? I really admire you! 🙂 “See you” soon! ” 🙂
hi Julianna
I hope your week is going well!
I have nominated you for the Liebster Award. Your blog is one of my absolute favourite blogs and I am so happy to have “meet” you in the bloggosphere (is that a word?)! I love the way you use flavours and tectures and your images are just gorgeous! 🙂
HI Petra! You are so sweet! Thanks so very much for the lovely comments and for the nomination. I am a huge fan of yours as well, so it is mutual.
Thanks again, and I hope you have an awesome week! 😀
Your sweet sister-in-law, Darlana, hooked me up with your blog! Looks amazing! Can’t wait to try these fantastic recipes!!
Hi Amy! Wow, that was so sweet of her to do that! Very nice to “meet” you and I hope you enjoy some of the recipes! Let me know if you get a chance to try them, and what you think! 😀
I am a teacher too. I understand that your cooking is usually limited to weekends and holidays!
What a great blog. I look forward to exploring it some more.
Thanks for stopping by and joining my blog. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy sharing my recipes and travels. Bienvenue!
I’m sure I will! À bientôt!
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So cool that you’ve been to Luang Prabang too – it’s such a cool town, isn’t it? Did you get woken up every morning at 4am (or thereabouts) by the drums at the temple? We were almost next to it, so there was no getting away from them! LOL!
How long were you there for? Also, where else in Asia have you been? We could compare notes!
So happy to have found your blog!
Really enjoy your blog. Nice pics and even better recipes. Look forward to your future posts!
Hi Julianna!
(continued) I LOVE YOUR CHEERFUL AND CREATIVE BLOG. keep it up! xoxo
-Cecilia @thestaticfoodbin