Cool Family Meals images
Some cool family meals images:
Nags Head 2012 Memoirs 166 – My Racing Crew

Image by Counselman Collection
Our son and daughter-in-law chose this location for this year’s spring trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, putting us right on the ocean front beach. It was a great location right beside Jeanette’s Pier, and the weather was so sunny. There were some windy days that made the waves all that much better. Besides our family from Ohio, we had friends visiting from several Congregations neighboring ours, plus a family that drove from mid-Texas and another from Indiana. As usual, we took turns making meals and it was a great experience with everyone fellowshipping and working together peacefully. Yes, I had one conference call with World Headquarters I did not want to miss, but it was still total relaxation. I tried to go a whole day without touching a camera, but then I got the shakes, and I just had to grab a camera and start snapping again; when you are hooked, you are hooked. To see photos from our past visits to Nags Head see the set of photos in our Travel Collection called Nags Head Memoirs; they are all dated.
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Heidi at Nikki Birthday Meal

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Cool Barbecue Foods images
A few nice barbecue foods images I found:
Barbacoa – Castelltcir P43

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2007-11-17 – Celebrating Ethan’s Birthday_0510

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Beautiful table with thanksgiving food

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A feast for the eyes too!
Cool Diet images
Check out these diet images:
Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper!

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Cool Recipes images
A few nice recipes images I found:
Pumpkin Pie Soufflé

Image by djwtwo
Tonight’s experiment: soufflés made with the same basic flavors as pumpkin pie, since we’re getting close to Thanksgiving. I’ve been futzing around with soufflés a bit lately, with varying degrees of success. The recipe I give below is as I baked this, and I thought it was a decent enough dessert, but if I were to make this again I’d probably mix in a few tablespoons of flour or corn starch to help cope with the moisture in the pumpkin, and add 1/4 c. of brown sugar to go along with the maple sugar, since it could have used a bit more sweetness. They also probably could have stood another few minutes in the oven, again to drive out a bit more moisture.
The window of opportunity for photographing these is vanishingly small. Because the base is so moist, they don’t rise to great heights to begin with, and in the 2 or 3 minutes it took me to get them out of the oven, framed, and shot, they had already lost about a 3/4" of height.
There were just shot in the light from my range hood, with my camera pre-positioned on a tripod. I did some tonemapping in Photomatix to help cope with the overly-heavy shadows that resulted.
(Edit 11/27/2011 – thanks for including this shot in the November 24th Flickr blog entry! I was wondering where all these hits came from…)
Ingredients
1 16 oz. can pumpkin purée
1 whole egg
4 egg whites
1/2 c. light cream
1/4 c. maple sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
heavy pinch of salt
1/8 tsp. cream of tartar
2 tbl. butter
2 tbl. granulated sugar
powdered sugar for dusting
Directions
Preheat your oven to 400°F. Arrange a rack on the lower middle position.
Butter the bottom and sides of 4 10 oz. ramekins, and swirl in the granulated sugar to coat. Discard any sugar that does not stick to the butter.
In a large bowl, combine the pumpkin, maple sugar, whole egg, cream, spices, and salt and whisk together. (If modifying the recipe as I discuss above, add the flour/corn starch and brown sugar as well.) In a separate, clean bowl, combine the egg whites and cream of tartar, and beat until stiff peaks form.
Add 1/3rd of the beaten egg whites to the pumpkin base and stir to combine. Then gently fold in the remaining egg whites, 1/3rd at a time, just until no streaks remain.
Divide the batter between the 4 ramekins. Smooth the tops, and run your finger around the outside lip of each ramekin.
Put the 4 ramekins on a baking sheet and put in the preheated oven. Bake 35 minutes. Do not open the oven to check on them!
Remove from the oven, dust with confectioners sugar, and serve immediately.
curried apple pilaf

Image by chotda
yet another from eric gower’s "the breakaway japanese kitchen": japanese short-grained rice cooked in fresh carrot juice, with fuji apple, slivered almonds and cilantro, seasoned with ginger, garlic, cinnamon and curry. recipe link
Tostitos Artisan Recipes Fire-Roasted Chipotle Chip

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Read a Tostitos Artisan Recipies review here
Cool Diet images
Some cool diet images:
that’s it, I’m on a diet

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fruit

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My new breakfast.
diet coke + mentos = good fun

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My godson and his dad made up eight different nozzles for their post-first communion festivities. Like maybe you had when you were a kid. Or not.
