Eats in Bulgaria

May 3, 2012

When we arrived in Bulgaria, our friend Nic told us we had everything to learn about “cafe culture.”  In an effort to educate us, we spent that afternoon wandering from cafe to cafe, taking an inordinate amount of time to finish our drinks and snacks.  My favorite cafe snack was these little fried fishes.

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Low-Commitment Projects: Tae’s “Ripe Fruit”

May 2, 2012

Heh, I forgot about the whole Low-Commitment Projects thing and how I’m supposed to put a post up on this blog every Monday about it.  Oops.  So, without further delay, here is Tae’s totally charming project for this week:  Ripe Fruit.  I wonder if the fruits inside the bags match the coloration of the ones [...]

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Matcha Chocolate Whoopie Pies

May 1, 2012

Do you remember How Stella Got Her Groove Back?  Me neither.  I never saw the movie; back in 1998 I was too busy riding my impossibly heavy 1950s bike around town, decked out in an ill-fitting vintage dress and black converse.  The title, however, sticks in my brain.  Variations of it tend to pop out [...]

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Eats in Turkey, Part 3

April 30, 2012

This is the final installment of the Turkey portion of Food Tour 2012.  It begins with dinner at Hacibasar, in Istanbul with our friends and Michael’s mom and her friend.  Our friend Özgür’s body is allegedly comprised of at least 1/3 food from Hacibasar because when he didn’t like the dinner offerings at home, his mom [...]

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Eats in Turkey, Part 2

April 28, 2012

We spent the second half of our week in Turkey at our host family’s house in Istanbul, and they fed us great food with serious persistence.  Above is a Baked Alaska-like dessert created by our host mom, Füsün.  Baked Turkey?

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Eats in Turkey, Part 1

April 27, 2012

The silence ends.  Oh, I planned to get out the ipad and post iphone photos as we travelled, but it just didn’t happen.  At the end of each day, it was all I could do to write down what we’d seen, eaten, and who we’d been with.  Michael and I returned from our 24-day tour [...]

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I Made a Travel Bag

March 30, 2012

We are hopefully on an airplane right now, headed in the right direction.  It is pretty hard to get on the wrong plane these days, right?  That doesn’t happen, right?  I’m not at all anxious about that happening. We might get on the wrong bus when we get to our destination, though.  That totally might [...]

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Walnut Cacao Shortbread Cookies

March 29, 2012

My brain is so full right now.  My to-do list is also full, but I’m slowly, diligently ticking items off the list.  When I get ready for anything, I make copious lists and can’t slow my tangled-up brain.  We leave for a trip soon, so I’m really into crossing things off lists.

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Graduation Invitations

March 27, 2012

I’m not graduating.  And when I did graduate, I didn’t do anything cool like printing my invitations myself; I bought the overpriced, gold-shiny, school seal-emblazoned ones.  Maybe I was too busy making my piece for the MFA thesis exhibition.

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Low-Commitment Projects: Just Like the Picture

March 26, 2012

Just Like the Picture was one of the most fun Low-Commitment Projects to work on so far.  I actually made myself chuckle while photographing these recreations of food packaging photos, plus it resulted in a fridge chock full of meals.  The Grape Nuts photo was the first one I did and is my favorite by far.  It totally [...]

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