March?
Today’s date: March 14th
Today’s high temperature: 91 degrees
Category: Uncategorized
Austin
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:
More Mango
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.
And the 100th submission goes to…
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.
Turtle with Mixed Green Salad*
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 …
More Pictures of Food
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).
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Cooking with Blood Oranges
So here’s what I came up with, while playing around with the blood oranges: mixed baby green salad with vinaigrette dressing, thin-sliced shallots, and blood orange segments. I also made salmon with shallot-citrus-butter sauce, but it got eaten before I had a chance to photograph it :)
Today’s secret ingredient is…
Blood oranges! I saw these at the grocery store today, and decided to try them out. They taste just about identical to regular oranges, but are a nifty crimson color. (The one in the photograph is an orange section with the skin removed, which is the way I wanted to prep them to go with tonight’s dinner — had I been thinking more photographically, I probably would have cut some cross-sections. Oh well.)
Mango Salsa
One of my Clarion classmates came over for dinner today (yay!!), so I whipped up some jerk chicken (spicy marinated Jamaican-style chicken) with mango salsa (mango, red pepper, red onion, cilantro & lime juice). Then, after dinner, vanilla ice cream and the cookies from my last post. Yum!
