This is my first time making Irish Stew and my first time ever buying parsnips, tapioca, and lamb, the meat that’s in most Irish stew recipes I found. I looked at quite a few recipes and there wasn’t too much difference between them. There were a few variations in vegetables, spices, broths, and broth thickeners… Read More Irish Stew
I was sent an invitation through Flickr to start selling images with Getty. I have had a few images for sale on Alamy for a while but not much has come of that. I haven’t really been very active on there either. They weren’t accepting many of my images so it was a little frustrating.… Read More Is on Getty Images
Almost every year I make a batch of spritz cookies. I have been using Betty Crocker’s Ultimate Spritz recipe. I usually separate the dough a few times and add different food colorings. I even added a little cocoa powder to some one year and they turned out pretty good. Mom used to make them every… Read More Cookie Baking
This is my second food specific photography workshop, the first being with Lou Manna as blogged a couple of months ago. This is the first year I’ve really heard anything about food photography workshops in the area and we’ve had 2 in the last half of the year. I don’t know if they’ve always been… Read More Food Photography Workshop: Penny De Los Santos
This post is well over due. This is a dish mom used to make and I’ve never tried making it myself until now. A lot of recipes call for canned hominy rather than getting the dried kind but mom always used dry so that’s how I made mine. You can usually find it in the… Read More Chicken Posole
I met up with a couple of foodie friends, Brenda and Nurit for happy hour. We decided on meeting at a wine bar in Bellevue none of us have been to called Grand Cru. They have a half price wine and apps happy hour all day on Monday and Tuesday nights. Even at half price… Read More Grand Cru Wine Bar
Mark and I set up a photobooth in my living room for the 2nd Annual Wine & Cheese Party at my place last month. Before I proceed I should explain what a photobooth is. Traditionally, a photobooth is a box about the size of a phone booth with a curtain on one side, maybe that’s… Read More Photobooth with Pocket Wizards
I received the E-P1 on Oct 28th and have had about a week to get familiar with it. There are a few features I have yet to try like the art filters and video. I have a feeling I won’t be using the art filters all that much but I will check them out at… Read More E-P1 First Look
Most people would think 6 Olympus cameras is probably enough or more than enough. I’m a moderator over at the Olympus E-System Community Flickr group so I read a lot of the dicussions there. There was quite a lot of discussions about the new E-P1 and tried to avoid them as much as possible because… Read More How I got my E-P1
I discovered on Monday that a new Trader Joe’s opened on Redmond Way last Friday. This was exciting news. I have only been to one a few times and would go more if there was one more conveniently located to me and now there is! I work in Redmond Town Center so it’s not far… Read More Trader Joe’s comes to Redmond, WA
