Tex-mex Cheese Burgers

Discovered the StartCooking.com video blog a couple of days ago and saw this great recipe for Tex-Mex Cheese Burgers and had to try it. Since I can’t leave a comment with either Firefox or Safari, I’m writing a post reviewing the burgers. The flavor is great on the burgers. The sauce is good too, but…

The Art and Science of Photography

Photography is both an art and a science. The art is your vision. Being able to see the photograph before you take it. The science is being able to translate that vision into a compelling photograph.” – Bob Crisp, Nikon Understanding Digital Photography

Blogroll Update

This hasn’t happen in forever, but I realized I could export my Google Reader blog list as and OMPL file an I already wrote a script to convert that to HTML. So I dug it up and updated my blogroll. There are a lot of people on it now that weren’t on the old one…

It Really is an Eating Plan

Some diet/self-help gurus tell you to call a diet an eating plan. They says diet has too many negative connotations. Like the fact the first three letters spell die. I always thought this a little silly. I mean you are cutting foods you want either way. That’s what makes a diet hard, no matter what…

Kiva

I was surfing around and ended up at a Yahoo story about Kiva.org, a website that matches lenders with entrepreneurs around the world. The idea is that in other countries – what we often call the third world – small businesses need microloans, and we can make minor loans to them. They partner with microlending…

Puerco Pibil With A Little Bite

So our small group from church was coming over for dinner last night and I was going to cook. My wife can’t eat night shades because of an allergy. Nightshades include tomatoes and potatoes as well as all hot peppers. Filmmaker Roberto Rodriguez has a 10 minute cooking school on the Once Upon a Time…

Kimberly: Petting a Cat

Did I mention Kimberly has a rather rude sense of humor. This stray cat came up while she was changing into her armor and had to be petted. I leave it to you to guess how she described what she was doing.

Kimberly: In the Swamp

Houston is a swamp. I mean I live in a forest, but is seems to have a lot of swamp like trees. This one looked cool.