(adapted from Cooking Light)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 lb. peeled gold or russet potatoes, cut into 1/4-in slices
Instructions:
(adapted from Cooking Light)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 lb. peeled gold or russet potatoes, cut into 1/4-in slices
Instructions:
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Easter is coming. And what does that mean? Another holiday to cook gobs and gobs of food for: my favorite kind of holiday.
For some reason, ham is the traditional Easter meat. Growing up, I don’t ever really remember having ham on Easter, though; I think we had either a turkey or a whole roasted chicken. So ham was never really one of those food items that I grew up liking. Well, that and the only ham we did eat when we ate ham was the canned ham with a layer of goo gel around it. It makes me shudder just thinking about it.
Later in life, we discovered honey baked ham. And that kind of ham I’m completely ok with. Last Christmas I decided to finally undertake making my own ham. So I researched a bunch of different recipes, and in the manner I cook best with, I created my own recipe based upon my research findings. And believe you me, it was gooooood. Even my brother-in-law, who absolutely positively refuses to eat ham, liked it. Thus, it promptly was added to my recipe box.
Don’t throw the ham bone away. There are so many great recipes that you can make with a ham bone, such as split pea soup or baked beans. After you finish eating, simply carve the rest of the meat off the bone and cut into little chunks. Store ham chunks in a freezer safe ziploc bag, about 1-2 cups per bag, until ready to use. Take ham bone and place into a large freezer safe ziploc bag, and freeze that until ready for future use.
In my opinion, and based upon my style of cooking, the key to making this recipe is to eyeball all the ingredients. That way you can customize it to your taste buds. (Note: This was more than enough rub and sauce for a 7lb ham, so feel free to use a bigger ham — like 10lbs — without making adjustments.)
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I think I went a little overboard with the editing of this photo. But I actually kind of like it. It looks….fake, for sure…but it looks almost…comic booky. Or there’s a silverish tint to it. I don’t know; I can’t quite put my finger on it. But I like it, I know that much.
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So for my birthday last October, my amazing husband got me a Nikon D80. I’ve always loved photography; I think I get that from my dad. I through my childhood, I remember he had this really cool Canon camera that was completely off limits to us kids — and was only brought on when the situation was worthy enough. Once I got older, he wold try to teach me things about aperture and exposure and ISO and light meters. But he might as well have been speaking Latin. I couldn’t, for the life of me, understand all that “photog” talk. For my college graduation, my parents bought me a Canon Rebel SLR (aka a 35mm film camera). And I loved using it…on auto mode. But it was also discouraging in the sense that whatever photo I took was final. No previewing, no editing. FINAL. And not knowing any of the cool settings, I almost felt like it was a waste of film and money experimenting with the settings. And then by the time I actually did get around to developing the photos, I wouldn’t remember which photos were in taken in which settings.
And that’s the beauty of a digital SLR for the amateur photographer: you can actually learn the different settings hands-on and see the differences right there on the screen in front of you. On the day I took the above photo, I felt like experimenting with depths of field. I’ll post other comparisons a little bit later on. This one, while most of the photos I took are of Pepper in focus, I decided to get creative and focus on some of the wild grass in the foreground, thus making Pepper blurry.
If you are the type that shoots on auto-mode, AND you have a digital, flip it to A mode (if you have Nikon) or Av mode (for Canon), and practice this depth of field. (A is for aperture, you know.) I guarantee it’s loads of fun!
Another fun tool on photographs: photo editing software. I use Adobe Lightroom (it’s gobs cheaper than Photoshop).
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