Final week of Food+Foto. I'm very sorry to see it end. It has truly been a "get out of your box" experience, of which I am very thankful. The amount of available subjects for my office food fotos were never ending this week but I chose the glittering cupcakes. Very tasty.
And...
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Our bank sent us this beautiful box full of mint chocolate covered chocolate cookies. Watch out Girl Scouts. Which, by the way, I ordered last week. 4 boxes of mints and 4 boxes of the one I can never remember the name of but they have coconut and carmel. They come in January, just in time to ruin any diet New Years resolution.
I submitted 3 photos this week all from a lunch I put together for 40 people. The occasion was what I like to call "Decking the Halls". The church was truly transformed in just hours. Boy were they hungry!
Here's the salad that caused the soup to boil over (see next photo). It's a recipe from "Rich and Charlie's", a restaurant in St. Louis. I'm not sure if it's still there. I started using this recipe in 1976 and a note on the back of my recipe card said that it cost $6.74 to make. I can't even buy the Hearts of Palm for that today but the salad is just as yummy.
Well, everything can't go perfectly when your feeding 40 people. Volunteers were decorating the church and I was preparing lunch. While putting the salad together the soup boiled over. It happened so fast. Still it filled the empty bellies.
You can't have an Italian salad without the bread sticks fresh out of the oven. In my opinion, the best part of the meal.
Lunch at work. Left over pizza and an apple - always. When I decided to use office food as my topic I was thinking of all the goodies around Christmas. Hopefully that starts this week but before Thanksgiving, there just isn't a lot of good subjects around. Not that Greek pizza isn't good but a bit hard to photograph and still look tasty.
I entered 3 photos this week.
I know this looks a lot like last week's picture; chocolate, alone, delicious. At least I remembered to eat this one. These delectable treats are like a brownie in cookie form and are from a restaurant in Prairie Village called C. Jacks. We buy the dough and bake them fresh for our 5 O'Clock church service. Sometime, like this week, we found some in the work room on Monday morning. What a joy!
Well, some days there just isn't a lot to be had. Maybe it was the presentation that made them look so unappealing.
Almost everyday I have (and enjoy) a SmartOne frozen meal. I have my favorites but when I took this one out of the micro it was a beautiful array of color and aroma.
While blog surfing the other day, I came upon an interesting Flickr group and join up. It's called Souvenir Foto School - the food challenge. We had to come up with our own food+foto project idea. A lot of people in the group had a lot of great ideas. Just when I didn't think I was going to come up with something in time, an idea pop into my head. Where is there always food to take a picture of? The workroom at work of course. It's a church and people are always bring in the best stuff or we have food left over from our many events. Food and church just seem to go together. Wouldn't you know it, the next day our office was the winner of a radio show contest. They delivered dessert for 20 people. YUM! My first food+foto picture is of the last brownie. It looked so lonely in the big white box that had so many tasty morsels in it only a few minutes earlier. I was so excited about my first photo that I totally forgot to eat the brownie. If you know me, you know that it is next to impossible for me to leave a brownie.
FOOD+FOTO 1
Sorry it's been so long but it takes longer to settle in than one might think. It's different but nice. Drive time to work is the best, 6-8 minutes instead of 25-30! Got to love it. Here's a few pictures of the new place. Same stuff - new place.
LIVING ROOM - This is a two story town home with the bedrooms upstairs and the living and kitchen down. Because the living room is vaulted, it seems like one big space.
LIVING ROOM - another view
MY BEDROOM
GUEST BEDROOM - come for a visit! Really
SEWING ROOM - not a lot of sewing going on lately but the machine is set up if I should ever feel the need.
DINING AREA OFF THE KITCHEN - Did buy a new table and chairs so it wouldn't be so tight.
PATIO - I love the pergola over the patio but I don't spend a lot of time here because it faces south and really HOT and sunny. Maybe a tilting umbrella might help. We'll work on that next year.
KITCHEN - Like it a lot but really miss the island I had in the old house. It's down the basement but weighs a ton. Maybe I bring it up (with some help) after I paint.
THE FRONT YARD - Some VERY good friends (Chick and John) came and helped me take out and put in beautiful new bushes and trees. Might not look like much now but just wait until spring!
BACK YARD - This is one of my favorite plants we planted, Heavenly Bamboo. It's not really bamboo but it makes that rustling noise like bamboo and has these beautiful berries.
Well, that's the tour. Hope you enjoyed it. I'm anxious to start painting every room. They don't feel like they belong to me until I've painted them. The living room might be a problem since the ceilings are so high but I'll figure something out. So long for now.
The truck, family and friends come a week from today to help with the big move. Here a few pictures from the house I've called home for the past 7 years.
LIVING ROOM - Saying good bye to the piano too. I have a week to find it a good home.
DINING ROOM
FAMILY ROOM - DINING ROOM AND A SNIP OF THE KITCHEN IN THE BACK.
BEDROOM
GUEST ROOM
DECK
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST - THE LIVING AREA OF THE BASEMENT
Well, that's it from this home. I'm about to pack the iMac away and will share pictures of the new place as soon as it's set up.
First I said goodbye to Tavianna, Andrew, Nicholas, Peter, George and Annika. Then I got ready to put the house on the market. It went on the market Monday, sold on Thursday! Now I have to find a place to live. Fun!
Painting the bedroom. It's been 6 years. But needs to be done if I was going to sell the house
A final trip to the Plaza including Barnes and Noble.
Then we had a little fun at the Nelson Art Museum. And off they went on their adventure to the west coast.
Then it was time for my adventure. Thanks to so many people I was able to put the house on the market and find a buyer in the same week. Janet and I are looking at 10 condos tomorrow. This is way too much fun.
Here are the answers for all of you who were stumped.
Day 99
Day 100 - WOW!100 pictures of my life.
Day 101
Day 102
Day 103
Day 104
Day 105
Well, that's it. How many did you guess correctly? We'll do it again soon.
