According to popular folklore, it is possible to balance a raw egg* on one end on the equinox. It was a trick my dad used to do sometimes when I was a kid. So if you have way too much time on your hands, you can spend today attempting to balance eggs on end :)
* Okay, I’ll come clean. The egg in the picture is not raw, it’s an “empty egg” where the contents have been blown out through a little hole …
Massively unhealthy side dish, or slightly unhealthy dessert?* Start with some healthy, nutritious sweet potatoes. Cook them. Mash them. Mix in: butter, milk, sugar, egg. Put mixture into a casserole dish. THEN, as if that is not enough, top the casserole with a mixture of pecans/flour/brown sugar/butter(yes, really, more butter).
And another picture, just to prove that there really are sweet potatoes under there:
* I …
Last night, I made a batch of stew, based on this recipe. Except the grocery store didn’t have rutabaga, so I substituted turnip. Also I forgot to get barley, so I substituted steel cut oats (and cut down on the flour, since the oats have plenty of starch to thicken the stew). Oh, and I tossed in a potato, since I had one. And some thyme. And I didn’t have beef broth handy, so I used half chicken broth and half water with dissolved beef …
So if you’ve been reading the blog, you know that I’ve been doing cover art for AnthologyBuilder.
A while ago, I put together an anthology, and today it arrived in the mail. I’m quite excited about it — fiction by Tina Connolly, Mary Robinette Kowal, Beth Wodzinski, Alethea Kontis, Melissa Mead, Cat Rambo, Nancy Fulda, Aliette de Bodard, Martha Wells, Jessica Reisman, and Samantha Henderson. And cover art by…me!
Today’s date: March 14th
Today’s high temperature: 91 degrees
My parents and my brother were in town visiting for my birthday yesterday, so we toured around downtown Austin and (surprise, surprise) I took a few pictures. I normally do nature photography rather than city photography, so this was a nice change of pace. A couple of my favorite shots:
I think mangoes look kind of neat sliced up this way (and it really is the most convenient way to get diced mango for mango salsa) so I took some pictures.
Sent out my 100th submission this morning, to Strange Horizons. Since 100 is a nice round number, it seemed like a good time to put up some stats.
There are lots of turtles in the rivers/ponds/lakes around here, and I’ve been meaning to go and photograph them for a while now. This shot comes from a pond on the UT campus, where a bunch of turtles hang out on a regular basis. Much to my dismay, the pond was clogged with weeds, and not particularly photogenic. But I took some photos anyway, in hopes that through the magic of photoshop, I could come up with some serviceable pictures. I ended up really liking the …
I’m always looking for an excuse to cook tasty food, so for V-day dinner, Peter and I had steak with wild mushroom risotto. And, for dessert, raspberry-lemon cake (i.e. lemon cake, with whipped cream, raspberries, and raspberry sauce).
