Through The Lens:

So I signed up to bring some food a few months ago,(Poor Decision 1) and I got the reminder call early in the week. I promptly forgot about it. (Poor Decision 2) It came to be the night before I needed my two trays of breakfast food. I had a few options, namely I could go and buy a few baked goods and place them on a tray and call it good, I elected not to take the sane approach. I decided to go make a few things (PD 3). Now I have several recipes for breakfast goodies that I can make quickly from ingredients on hand and in remarkably little time. I decided to make a few complex things (PD 4) I decided to research the intratubes for some entirely new, made from scratch recipes. (PD 5) Because of the cascading series of poor decisions I had to stay up all night baking goodies. Not how I really planned on spending my Saturday night.

I was so tired but I survived- I had cooking to do!


Thanks my friend coffee, I think the secret to my baking sucess is the chicory. I know some people (like the people at my office) detest the chicory, but I enjoy thinking about sitting in Jackson Square with a café au lait

And the secret to lemon bars, lots of real lemon zest, 6 lemons worth for this batch, boy is my zester tired


The only good part was that my food was rather tasty, and it made for some funny pictures. and follow the links for the recipes. I really like this food blog as it has good pictures and good food.

peanut butter brownies

lemon squares

Blue Chip Cookies

http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/10/peanut-butter-brownies/
http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/01/blue-chip-chocolate-chip-cookies/
http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/01/lemon-bars/
http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/12/espresso-chocolate-shortbread-cookies/

duck, originally uploaded by erictwright.

one of those strange little moments from life.

a shadow of elvis, originally uploaded by erictwright.

not the young elvis

That steamy room reeked of old lady perfume.

Hey all you new years resolution runners-
There is a marathon in Birmingham coming up.
I however am planning on doing the half marathon.you runners should come down and do it with me, a half is only 13 miles and plus races are more fun then training.

email me if you are interested.

http://www.mercedesmarathon.com/

snow, originally uploaded by erictwright.

What next, locusts?

let the bottling commence, originally uploaded by erictwright.

well that’s what I would have said had i uploaded the picture then, but as it is I waited a while to post the photo. This was the Anchor Steam clone without any of the Steam characteristics, so lets call it it the Anchor Amber Ale.

Soon I’ll have another batch that needs to brew-anyone want to do all the work while I supervisehelp

That oughta stop em, originally uploaded by erictwright.

Road department closed down this bridge as it was cited by the state as being unsafe. Add a little bit of angry locals being forced to drive well out of their way. What do you get. Well let’s just say my scanner listening ear is tuned to the phase “‘Dukes of Hazzard’ like activity off of Means road North of Gadsden.”

i’ll just nudge that a bit, originally uploaded by erictwright.

seems like whenever someone in the county moves a house I get to take a picture. What seems like an interesting endeavor invariably ends up being a huge logistics nightmare. the moving crew blocks of the road-all th locals try and find back ways to get home messing up the alternate routes. I end up parking and walking, and walking and walking.