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As Pictured Below: Signs of Autumn
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Photographs, tagged As Pictured Below, autumn, cat, fall, fresh air, photography, windows, Yang on September 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A day of wine, friends and fun, just north of Huntsville
Posted in Eats, Photographs, Travel, tagged Arrington Vineyards, blueberry wine, Gloomy Bear, wine, wine tasting, winery on September 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
What’s within two hours of Huntsville and is so much fun that I forgot to take any pictures except for this one shot, complete with a thumb in the viewfinder?
Arrington Vineyards, just south of Nashville. The husband and I met a group of friends there on a recent Friday, and great fun ensued.
After a complimentary wine tasting, during which we each got to choose six wines to sample, we gathered on the patio for a picnic lunch, wine and brilliant conversation. Gloomy Bear, pictured above, even got in on the action.
I understand that the place is ridiculously crowded on weekends, so it’s probably worth your time to take a weekday off for the journey. Definitely bring a picnic, a mascot and a group of hilarious friends, and appoint one of them as designated driver.
And whatever you do, have some blueberry wine. It’ll make any day taste like spring.
Almost foiled by frozen blueberries
Posted in Eats, Photographs, tagged baking, blueberries, blueberry cookies, cookies, frozen blueberries, lemon blueberry cheesecake cookies on September 10, 2011| 2 Comments »
The downfall of my attempt to make Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies? Frozen blueberries.
And when I say downfall, I don’t mean that they were inedible. On the contrary, they were delicious, with a cake-like consistency that made them very much like tiny, round blueberry muffins.
The recipe didn’t specify whether to use fresh or frozen blueberries, but I’m pretty sure fresh blueberries would have held up better. I added the blueberries while they were still frozen, so they held up well during the mixing process. No matter how careful I was when I rolled the dough into balls, however, I inevitably broke a blueberry, resulting in a slippery, slimy ball of dough.
Next time, I think I’ll leave the blueberries out of the dough entirely, and then mash a couple of frozen blueberries into each ball of dough before baking. Mushy problem solved.
As Pictured Below: Franz, before and after
Posted in As Pictured Below, Home, Photographs, tagged 1980s, framing, home decor, Michael's on September 3, 2011| 1 Comment »
Poor Franz. He’s been stuck in 1980s beige and gold ever since I rescued him at an estate sale a few years ago.
One trip to Michael’s and $9 later, he’s looking tres dramatique in black and white.
Goat cheese, basil, bacon and pecans add up to tiny, delicious treats
Posted in Eats, Photographs, tagged bacon, basil, cheese ball, cream cheese, goat cheese, goat cheese ball, goat cheese pops, pecans, Pinterest on August 28, 2011| 2 Comments »
I love cheese. I love cheese balls. I do not love the awkwardness involved in slicing off a small, bite-sized piece from a large, cold, hard-to-carve cheese ball.
Problems, problems. I know.
Anyway. If there’s anything I love better than plain old cheese, it’s goat cheese, so when I saw this recipe for Goat Cheese Pops with Herbs, Pecans and Bacon on Pinterest, I knew I had found a new culinary mission. Luckily, two events popped up on my social calendar this weekend, giving me an excuse to make a fancy cheese dish.
I did not put my goat cheese balls on lollipop sticks, so I can’t technically call them goat cheese pops. I also neglected to serve them with apple slices, since apple slices start turning brown the second you grab the paring knife and the parties I was supplying snacks for both had a relaxed buffet-type thing going on, meaning everything had to be stable at room temperature for a couple of hours.
Besides, every other apple I buy, any time of the year, turns out mushy and halfway tasteless.
If I make these again, I’ll probably use more goat cheese than cream cheese (the recipe linked above uses a 1:1 ratio of goat cheese to cream cheese — I’ll probably make that a 2:1 or even 3:1). The cream cheese probably helps with the consistency, but I think it also slightly masks the tangy flavor of the goat cheese.
As Pictured Below: Wondrous willow
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged As Pictured Below, photography, weeping willow on August 24, 2011| 3 Comments »
I wish the weeping willow wasn’t notorious for invading sewer pipes. I would love for my back yard to be covered with this gorgeous canopy.
As Pictured Below: King of the suburban jungle
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Photographs, tagged As Pictured Below, cats, Crosspatch, stuffed animals, toys, Yang on August 22, 2011| 2 Comments »
There will be no setting up a cute stuffed animal/real animal shot with Yang, a light sleeper who dislikes such hijinks.
As Pictured Below: Return of the poblano souffle
Posted in As Pictured Below, CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged As Pictured Below, cooking, CSA, poblano peppers, poblano souffle on August 12, 2011| 2 Comments »
As Pictured Below: Too pretty to eat
Posted in As Pictured Below, CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged As Pictured Below, CSA, ground cherries, ground cherry on August 10, 2011| 2 Comments »
As Pictured Below: Beignets and coffee
Posted in As Pictured Below, Eats, Photographs, Travel, tagged beignets, Cafe Du Monde, mother, New Orleans, travel, vacation on August 9, 2011| 2 Comments »
A drive to New Orleans isn’t complete without a plate of beignets. And a week at Mom’s house isn’t complete without a drive to New Orleans.
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