Making mozzarella

30Aug09

Zingerman’s sells a cheese making kit, and after months of gentle nudging, one finally arrived. With a few simple ingredients and in as many steps, homemade mozzarella was ours. We used Milk Thistle milk, purchased at the local farmer’s market and begotten from a cow who’s dined mostly on grass and clover [...]

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Lilacs!

31May09

Every bodega in Brooklyn is selling these magical spring branches. Those pictured are the French, less fragrant kind, and were the subject of my portable flash photography homework assignment. This is my third class at PhotoManhattan and will probably be the last for a while. Flash is tricky business…math and such.
I did end up getting [...]

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Tripod test drive

29Mar09

It’s been sitting in the box for weeks. I bought a Velbon tripod, for $40 – on the advice of many to go cheap. Finally decided to give it a try this weekend. After an hour of fiddling, I figured out what each of the knobs are for, and how to focus using a remote [...]

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A dining room, sort of

08Mar09

Here it is – the table, chairs, lighting ensemble that came together earlier this week – thanks in large part to local superheroes, Bill and Alison, and thanks in no part to Modernica. Could a set of chairs be more impossible to assemble? For all their pretty furniture, this company has a thing or two [...]

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