Inspiration

Or maybe lack thereof.  I have been totally uninspired to blog lately.  I was sick of just posting recipes, especially since I'm a total amateur.  But it felt for a while like that's the only real creative stuff I did.  My life is kind of routine, so I don't always feel like I have anything interesting to share.  I will try to do better.  Part of what will help me may be my new camera!

I was in New York last weekend to run a 5k with my sister.  The 5k turned my knee into a blob of molten lava, but other than that it was pretty fun.  One of the things I really wanted to do while I was there was take a trip to one of the legendarily awesome camera stores in the big apple.  I was originally thinking B&H, partly because I had a gift certificate, partly because it's more well known.  After very little convincing, my friend Shawn convinced me that we should really go to Adorama for their much more personal service and large used stock instead.  I'm so glad we did.  And I'm so glad I forced brought Shawn with me.  I ended up with a gently used Nikon D90 which arrived yesterday.  I'm so excited!!!!

Here are some of the test shots I've taken with my "Nifty Fifty" (50mm f/1.8) lens.  These are straight off the camera, completely unaltered.

I'm a Slacker

I know I said I was going to post a bunch of recipes from Thanksgiving last week, but I've been lazy.  So sue me!


I promise I'll get to it, but in the meantime enjoy these pictures of Kota and Duff I took goofing off w/ my Lumix LX3 while Eric was working on brining turkeys.

Cat in a Bag!

The best part of unpacking from vacation.

Cat on a Bag!

One of Duff's favorite summertime spots.

Keep Away

I've learned that using room temperature butter is very important in baking unless the recipe says otherwise.  Room temperature butter makes a huge difference in texture of the final product.  Unfortunately room temperature butter also means having to keep the butter out of the fridge until you need it.  Out of the fridge is cat territory.  Apparently cats like butter.  I've come back to use my room temperature butter to find cat tongue sized parts of my butter missing.  That's right, Duff will lick through the paper to get to the butter.  Now when I'm allowing butter to come to room temperature I set up a contraption that looks something like this:

Cat in a Bag!