We love tacos. Love. Them. Beef tacos, chicken tacos, steak tacos, you name it. But as much as it makes tacos taste great, I loathe buying pre-packaged taco seasoning mix. First of all there are ingredients in there I don’t recognize. Second, the ingredients I do recognize I have sitting right in my cabinet. So [...]
How to photograph fireworks Anyone who has ever tried to photograph fireworks knows that it ain’t easy. In fact, it’s one of the most difficult thing to photograph successfully. I have a new digital SLR this year and I am going to attempt to capture some of the magic some of the fireworks on the [...]
In my quest to find healthy yet easy to make, “normal” recipes for my family, I discovered the The America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook. I was looking for a cookbook that took regular food and recipes that even a novice can make, and made them healthier. Often, healthy cookbooks use strange and hard to [...]
On the surface, 20 Second Fitness looks easy. Especially to me. Insanity graduate (yeah, I even got the t-shirt) Treadmill junky. Overall quite a specimen of physical fitness (*snort*). But looks can be deceiving. It kicked my butt tonight. 12 minutes. Only 12 minutes. I did Insanity workouts that were 4-5 times that. Yes I [...]
