I love architectural photography. For this trip I rented a Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens to take with me, and I wasn’t disappointed. Most of the photos you’re seeing in this series were taken with this lens, as it’s great for walking down narrow European streets and pulling as much into the frame as possible. It…
For Easter I made four 2kg batches of sausage – two for the smoker, one fresh batch for the grill, and a batch of breakfast sausage links (not shown). It was my first time using curing salts and smoking the sausage at a lower temp (160-180 F) than normal smoking temps. It was a tasty experiment, I…
Ticket cameras. Politicians love them because it’s an easy sell to the safety advocates, and if you say you’re against them, then you must be a criminal. Now at least some Buffalo politicians, such as Mayor Brown, are on the red light camera bandwagon. However, the mayor may have played his hand too early by…
My brief blogging hiatus was due to a two week work trip to Europe. This was my first trip overseas and it was quite interesting, if exhausting at times. I visited nine cities in five different countries, used five airports and seven train stations, drove the Autobahn, and sat in countless taxis, buses, and subways….
I just completed my annual review of our 2006 spending and setting up our budget for 2007. Starting back in 2000, after I graduated from college and got a “real job”, I set up a simple spreadsheet that let me keep track of how much money I was spending and on what. I knew that…
Very colorful and fun cake. My wife will also be impressed, as she has made many interesting novelty cakes. Even if the chips and cards are made from fondent (sp.?), which I find too dense and sweet to be edible.
That is a good one – good idea to take photos – it’s fun to look back on the crazy cakes from the past.
I’m sure Dad loved it.
Awesome!
i don’t like that like of frosting. too gummy. i prefer a nice ganache.