Hanging Out With Dad 40/365
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I'm really enjoying being a Dad.

 

I’ve been working on a new “of the week” project since the beginning of the year.  At the end of last year, I was tired of taking a picture every day, as much as I enjoyed the 365 Project.  I didn’t want to commit to the same daily level of things this year, partially because of the impending birth of the baby (codenamed Smallz) and partially because I was just tired of being a servant to the project.

At first, I was thinking that I would try and do a single picture each week, but really work on the technique and quality of each picture.  Then I was thinking that I would do that and start a 365 for the first year of Smallz' life.  (I still plan on doing that.)  When our January issue of Bon Appetit arrived, it had a recipe for a Bahn Mi sandwich that I really was interested in making.  I ended up making it, and taking pictures while doing it.  Making these sandwiches gave me the idea to make something new each week, and learn how to cook and take pictures of food better while doing it.  Here’s a collection of the recipes I have made so far.

In the first nine weeks, I have learned that it’s not always easy to find something I want to make.  I have also learned that I know far less about cooking than I realized.  A lot of my inspiration so far has come from Serious Eats and Tasty Kitchen.  Both are awesome resources for the home cook.

This is more than a test post. Well, actually, it’s a test post because I haven’t been able to update this site due to some server problems. I am working on changing hosting companies. I need to do this for two reasons, first I am paying way too much for what I am getting with the current hosting company. Second, I have been updating this site using Blogger since 2001, and Blogger are phasing out support for ftp updating. So if you aren’t hosted on their infrastructure, you really can’t use their tools. This is lame for all manner of reasons, but I think it’s the kick in the ass I needed to get this site going again in some meaningful manner. Current working theory is moving this site and all the other domains associated with it over to Media Temple. This is time consuming, not because of the moving of files, but because of the moving of all the domains. It means a lot of phone calls, and I want to make sure that I don’t lose them. So just a test for the moment.