Living Below The Line

A week of getting by on $1.50 a day for food a drink as part of the Live Below the Line campaign.

Smitten Pics

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I've been obsessed with the food pics found on Smitten Kitchen and Sprouted Kitchen. They are simple, straightforward, and for the most part don't over use insanely shallow depth of field so typical in food blogging these days. And the food, ugh! the food looks amazing, it drives me nuts! How! how! So I snooped until I caught a glimpse of the set up in the reflection of this bowl.

You see the key here, and what I lack in my culinary life, is light. If I could spend all morning making that next great delicious thing and prop it up next to that perfect morning light window maybe I too could take wonderful food pictures. But in reality, I tend to stay up way too late on a weeknight with my favorite red pot and badass food processor. So when it comes to showing off my culinary exploits I'm left with only the oven light at my disposal and perpetually crummy frames.

Oh, how I envy you ladies.

A Roy G Biv Potluck

We held our first Roy G Biv Potluck this past weekend. Each guest chose a color and came up with these culinary delights: vegan spanakopita, pulled pork wrapped in red onion, flan, beet and goat cheese salad, spinach and (homegrown) basil pesto with ricotta gnocchi, buffalo cheese dip (with homemade hot sauce) and some green marshmallow thing with pineapple and pecans straight out of your grandmother's kitchen. Paired with some red wine and my new favorite bourbon, Basil Hayden, the night was quite a treat.

I'm quite fortunate to have awesome friends who willingly spend a Saturday night at a potluck and really, really, really love food. Check out some of their musings.
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