4 minutes to see who moves on in the Foodbuzz Project Food Blog contest. Not that I'm counting. Or worried. Or anything like that. Nope. What time is it again?

Edit: Made it through! Next, this weekend, cooking a classic in an unfamiliar (cooking-wise) cuisine.

Christey and I are part of the Foodbuzz Project Food Blog challenge, where the winning blog gets $10k and a feature on their site for a year. There are a lot of judges and insider Foodbuzz bloggers who have a lot of weight with the voting, but there's also a Reader's Choice award which is an automatic pass to the next round ( Read more... )

We might need James Burke to disentangle this, but here's a recent series of Connections, with a startling result ( Read more... )

Thanks for the birthday wishes, here and on FB! It was a nice relaxing day. Andy and I went canoeing and fishing and caught fish. Alas, no keepers, but it was fun. Probably caught the biggest snook of my life, but it snapped the line right before I could put a hand on it. Still fun!

I'm a little sunburned today.

California Prop 8 overturned in California Supreme Court ( Read more... )

Something I do every few years, just to see if I still have a chin.

Though, I have to say, when I was clipping/trimming it down to the point where I could shave, there was probably 50/50 gray.

Hello 43 years old (next month).


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I've been scarce and distant lately, and I figured I owed you an explanation. You see, I've been seeing another forum. It's not as bad as it sounds, there's not the FB/LJ commitment that I have with you...but you see, I have this boat I'm working on, and they understand me over there. So, while I'm trying to get this boat fixed up, I was confused, ( Read more... )

One of the things I love about high cuisine is the constant evolution. Carême and Escoffier wrote many books and articles in order to standardize the mother sauces that make up French cuisine...then listed hundreds of ways to alter them to show creativity. They used an almost scientific approach to figure out what makes up the core elements of ( Read more... )

I wish I had a pic of the boat when I first dragged it from under the tree. One of the tires on the trailer had sunk into the sand up to its rim, and when I pulled it out, the rubber had disintegrated and I had to get a new tire.

Here's the engine after being dunked mostly underwater a couple years before.

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I'm itchy ( Read more... )