Bartholomew enthusiastically approves of Mom's yard decoration!
Delightful visit with family, now headed to the Bay Area to see A1, hopefully more family, and be interviewed for one of my favorite podcasts!
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Painting project!
dangr-us thoughts World HQ Editorial Desk: Okay, enough already of the damn food porn!
me: Alright, fine! Why don't you just throw some paint at the screen if you don't like what's on it?
This was a project I did with my wonderful nephews and niece in Sacramento in January. They wanted a kid's table for the back yard. Why not throw some paint at it?
A cheap 4x4 piece of OSB. Nephew D and I cut it. The rudimentary compass (see the sharpie marker taped to a string, tied to a nail in the middle of the board?) did the trick of giving us an even circle to cut.
The battlefield: we primed the wood, and Lowe's had several "oops" mistinted sample sized paint, and I bought a couple more.
And the final result, much flung and smeared paint later.
me: Alright, fine! Why don't you just throw some paint at the screen if you don't like what's on it?
This was a project I did with my wonderful nephews and niece in Sacramento in January. They wanted a kid's table for the back yard. Why not throw some paint at it?
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Food food food!
Well, loyal readers, it's like this: only one of you responded to my comments about food porn in a previous post, and s/he was very positive about the extensive food porn I've been posting. So here you go, L!
This is all from our trip to New England over the xmas holidays. My in-laws responded to my taking pictures of food the whole trip with varying degrees of bemusement, though K seemed to totally get it, and the kids just giggled. (I did and said a lot of things which caused the kids to giggle, so this was well within form.)
Zucchini, onions, tofu, and garlic for:
Hot salad!
I think this might have been the prep for the hot salad, but honestly, I'm not really sure. I did a lot of cooking in the week and a half.
All the fixings for a hearty vegetable stew.
Unfortunately, the finished product was too shy to pose for a picture.
J baked fresh bread in less than two hours beginning to end with the ingredients on hand. It's more impressive than it sounds, when you know what ingredients are usually on hand.
Frying polenta rounds, in two stages, with crispy fresh thyme from the fall garden in the back of the pan for flavoring.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS!
Happy, clean brussels sprouts.
And three stages of frying, out of order, with the end product in the middle bowl.
And not a man, woman, or child alive doesn't love fresh guacamole, right? (Reference: SH. Hope you're well, wherever you are.)
Asparagus, onions, and zucchini for stir fry, with carmelized onions making a cameo in the back.
This is all from our trip to New England over the xmas holidays. My in-laws responded to my taking pictures of food the whole trip with varying degrees of bemusement, though K seemed to totally get it, and the kids just giggled. (I did and said a lot of things which caused the kids to giggle, so this was well within form.)
Zucchini, onions, tofu, and garlic for:
Hot salad!
I think this might have been the prep for the hot salad, but honestly, I'm not really sure. I did a lot of cooking in the week and a half.
All the fixings for a hearty vegetable stew.Unfortunately, the finished product was too shy to pose for a picture.
J baked fresh bread in less than two hours beginning to end with the ingredients on hand. It's more impressive than it sounds, when you know what ingredients are usually on hand.
Frying polenta rounds, in two stages, with crispy fresh thyme from the fall garden in the back of the pan for flavoring.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS!My sister in law had a lot of brussels sprouts. Six bags, to be precise. So we did a little Iron Chef style routine: I flash-fried mine with olive oil and salt, while she roasted hers with olive oil and salt. Not to be too immodest, but: I won. Hers were very good, but everyone at the christmas table preferred mine.
Then again, my prep took about ten times as long, with cleaning, halving, and then cutting a little divot to get the harder part of the stem out on each side, and maintaining the frying.
Then again, my prep took about ten times as long, with cleaning, halving, and then cutting a little divot to get the harder part of the stem out on each side, and maintaining the frying.
Happy, clean brussels sprouts.
And three stages of frying, out of order, with the end product in the middle bowl.
And not a man, woman, or child alive doesn't love fresh guacamole, right? (Reference: SH. Hope you're well, wherever you are.)
Asparagus, onions, and zucchini for stir fry, with carmelized onions making a cameo in the back.If it seems that certain ingredients are making appearances over and over, well, in small town Vermont in the winter, you gotta work with what you have.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Back in the saddle
Okay, okay, it's been quite a while, and you, my loyal readers, have been clamoring. Actually, you haven't. Only mom has noted the absence of posts, in the context of saying something like I'd fallen off the face of the earth. In any event, more posts to come soon, and pictures from the New England trip. (And yes, L, lots of it WILL indeed be food porn! Yay!)
The trip to New England was fine, if a bit too long. It's always so damn nice to sleep in my own bed after a long trip, and this one included sleeping on four different beds in fourteen days.
J and I went on something of a home organizing binge yesterday which will continue today. We bought a big bookshelf, a printer table/office organizer (aka a shoe rack), and a low TV table to get a bunch of stuff up off the floor. No, we don't own a television, and that may or may not change any time soon. I also went through the various paint the previous owners had left behind, of which we can only tell that two of four actually go to anything in our condo.
For a big fun New Years Eve, we continued our maddening search for a roll-aboard suitcase that is 18" or 19" so it will fit on all of Delta's bizzarrely small overhead bins, and the search failed (again.) We looked at rolling tool chests at Sears only to decide they were too expensive. We discovered that Costco is too obnoxious to update their voicemail system with holiday hours. Then we came home, cooked, and went to bed at 11pm. Somehow after waking up at 6am to fly home from Boston, staying up for midnight just didn't grab us, so we drank the cheap champagne yesterday while mixing paint and organizing.
The trip to New England was fine, if a bit too long. It's always so damn nice to sleep in my own bed after a long trip, and this one included sleeping on four different beds in fourteen days.
J and I went on something of a home organizing binge yesterday which will continue today. We bought a big bookshelf, a printer table/office organizer (aka a shoe rack), and a low TV table to get a bunch of stuff up off the floor. No, we don't own a television, and that may or may not change any time soon. I also went through the various paint the previous owners had left behind, of which we can only tell that two of four actually go to anything in our condo.
For a big fun New Years Eve, we continued our maddening search for a roll-aboard suitcase that is 18" or 19" so it will fit on all of Delta's bizzarrely small overhead bins, and the search failed (again.) We looked at rolling tool chests at Sears only to decide they were too expensive. We discovered that Costco is too obnoxious to update their voicemail system with holiday hours. Then we came home, cooked, and went to bed at 11pm. Somehow after waking up at 6am to fly home from Boston, staying up for midnight just didn't grab us, so we drank the cheap champagne yesterday while mixing paint and organizing.
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