Posted in As Pictured Below, Huntsville, Photographs, tagged animals, ducks, iPhone, lake, phobias, ToyCamera, walk on October 1, 2009| 3 Comments »
To take a walk around Lady Ann Lake, I often have to make my way past the Guardian Ducks of the North Side.
The scary, scary Guardian Ducks of the North Side who are not content to eat bread tossed on the ground, but have to take it directly from your hand.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged '80s, basketball, childhood, Chuck Taylor, coast, Converse, drama club, fashion, friends, iPhone, junior high, mississippi, outcasts, shoes, sports, teenager, ToyCamera on September 19, 2009| 2 Comments »
I took my new Chuck Taylor All Stars out for a test drive last night. Good news: They still make my feet look 1.5 times bigger than they really are, and they totally remind me of seventh grade, when I was on the junior high basketball team.
I was tall and I could shoot, but I just wasn’t that good at basketball. The fast pace of the game frustrated me – I’m a planner. Plus, it was hard to be a cool outcast when you’re with the incast.
Turns out you can also wear your Chucks while you’re hanging out with the drama club and smoking under the bleachers, where nobody notices that your feet seem a lot bigger than they should be.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Eats, Huntsville, Photographs, tagged Cantina Laredo, food, hangover, iPhone, tequila on September 15, 2009| 1 Comment »
I learned a lot about tequila at Cantina Laredo’s latest tequila-tasting. I now understand, for example, that you don’t have to drink everything the waiters put in front of you.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged handcuffs, home, iPhone, litter, Mardi Gras, photograph, shopping, Target on August 17, 2009| 2 Comments »
Wow, Target. I’ve never seen broken handcuffs littering the ground before, and I’ve been to Mardi Gras A LOT.
I can only hope some poor guy escaped before he was forced to look at shower accessories.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Photographs, tagged animals, catnip, cats, Doritos, iPhone, kitchen, munchies, photograph, Trader Joe's on August 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
I recently broke out the catnip, hoping to stoke 13-year-old Yang’s appetite. I also added two Double Wide Cat Scratchers from Trader Joe’s to a expansive collection of cat accessories.
Now I have two stoner cats who sleep on their respective cat scratchers for hours at a time until they’re forced to make a mad dash for the kitchen when they hear the refrigerator open.
Anyway, they’re eating better, although I don’t think they should be scarfing down so many Doritos.
Posted in As Pictured Below, CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged CSA, farm, food, heirloom, iPhone, melons on August 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This fragrant beauty was packed in the latest CSA box. The Tigger melon is an Armenian heirloom variety, and is sweeter than any melon I’ve ever tasted. It’s about the size of a softball, with the consistency and flavor of a cantaloupe.
It was almost too pretty to eat. But I persevered.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Photographs, tagged animals, cats, iPhone, Nip/Tuck, television, TiltShift Generator, ToyCamera on July 29, 2009| 5 Comments »
Yang has tired of "Nip/Tuck" Season 2. Truly, it has exhausted us all.
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged baking, co-workers, CSA, dehydrator, food, homemade, iPhone, photograph, souffle, vegetables on July 27, 2009| 5 Comments »
This week's CSA haul.
I’m up to my neck in CSA vegetables: Swiss chard, zucchini, cucumbers, poblanos, cherry tomatoes, squash and more. I made tiny souffles (my first ever) on Friday night with a recipe for Poblano and Cheddar Cheese Souffle from the 5 Star Foodie Culinary Adventures blog. I give credit to the Inspired Bites blog for helping me through the pepper-roasting process.
Oddly, I was more scared to roast a poblano pepper than I was to attempt a souffle. Go figure.
Truly, I could not handle this culinary adventure without the world wide web. Thank you, Internets.
You’ll note that there is no photograph of these alleged souffles. That’s because about three-quarters of the way through the 20-minute baking time, I realized that I WAS ACTUALLY MAKING A NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT DISH and I SHOULD BE SCARED and THEN THE TINY SOUFFLES ACTUALLY PUFFED UP and there was no way I was taking the risk that my first-ever homemade souffles would be served all sunken and non-poofy just so I could stop and take pictures.
They looked just like the ones here, and they were delicious. Trust me. I’m a woman who can make souffles.
I leave you with photos from the other half of this weekend’s food experiments: the Dehydration Debacle. Really, it was only half a debacle. Someone at work brought in some freeze-dried snap beans last week, and they turned out to be a crunchy, tasty snack. Having an excess of snap beans AND cucumbers crowding the CSA box, I decided to drag out my old-school stackable-unit dehydrator.
The results: crunchy bean curls that don’t really taste like anything, and thin cucumber chips that I would definitely pay good money for. I put just a slight sprinkle of salt on top of most of the slices before cranking up the dehydrator, and it seems to draw out the cucumber flavor.
Next weekend, I’ll bring out the dehydrator again to take care of all the pesky zucchini and squash taking up room and dealing out guilt in the hallway closet.
Dried snap beans.
Dried cucumber slices.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged iPhone, photograph on July 24, 2009| 2 Comments »
I’ve added a new feature to this blog, titled As Pictured Below. I admit, it was inspired by an unexpected love for my new iPhone’s camera. In under five clicks, I can take a photo, upload it to WordPress, and post it with commentary.
It’s addictive, really.
Be sure to check out the hover text for each photo – just position your pointer over the photo and wait for the text box to appear. Sarcastic/funny/sad/illuminating messages await you. (This function was inspired by the online comic A Softer World. Check it out. And don’t forget to hover.)
Posted in As Pictured Below, Home, Photographs, tagged home, iPhone, photograph, ToyCamera, weather on July 23, 2009| 3 Comments »
Entirely Adequate 