18 January 2009

What We Had for Dinner Today

Ravioli. We had ravioli. I made the ravioli. I got to use my pasta roller. Wow. It was so much easier than using a rolling pin. I didn't even break a sweat. That was a bonus. The dough didn't shrink on me, either. Bonus bonus! I don't know if that was the roller or the dough (left out the oil my previous recipe called for and used less egg), but either way, I am thoroughly grateful.
There was tomato sauce and creamy pesto sauce, plus bread with roasted garlic, green beans, and salad to go with the ravioli. For dessert there was a concoction of chocolate wafer crumb crust topped with vanilla pudding, berries, and cool whip.

03 January 2009

I Are Special

I am all excited. A photo I took at the San Antonio Botanical Garden has been published in something called a "Schmap," which, as best I can tell, is an iPhone-based electronic guidebook for various cities. This is what my picture will look like on an iPhone (do I even know anyone who has an iPhone?).
I am not sure why they wanted to use it. It's not a terribly exciting picture. It's not particularly representative of the SABG. I just took it because I liked that plant, and I thought I might want to use it in landscaping someday, and this way I could go to a nursery and show someone the photo and say, "Sell me some of THIS." I certainly wasn't expecting anyone else to see the picture. But now I am able to say, in a properly pretentious tone, that I am a Published Photographer.
We'll see how long that fun lasts.