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Month: August 2011

  • The wild life in Los Alamos differs from Los Angeles

    Having been here a little over three months, I’m still getting used to a few things – slower life style, more fresh air, cooking at a higher elevation, etc. One thing that still makes me catch my breath like a kid at 4th of July: Animals. I’m talking about being woken at 3:30am because a bear is going through the trash; or looking out the window while making a cup of coffee to see a buck staring at you from 7 feet away; or driving down the road and being stared down by a coyote two lanes over; or humming birds dive bombing you as you try to grill because you’re standing too close to their feeder (seriously, humming birds are the douche bags of the avian world).

    I love this little town.

     

  • Fuller Lodge

    I’m finally taking the time to start exploring Los Alamos and I decided to check out Fuller Lodge and its surroundings.

  • Cooking dinner 2011-08-10

    One of the benefits of being home during the day is being able to make dinner. Last night’s dinner came from two places: an arugula salad from Mark Bittman and barbecue chicken from Serious Eats.

    Barbecue chicken with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce.
    Strawberry and Arugala Salad with homemade balsamic vinaigrette.
    Sourdough toast with chevre (soft goat cheese), tomato slices and avocado. Salt and pepper to taste.

     

    Plate of goodness.
    Chicken tastes better with charred bits.
    Normally I don't like strawberries but they tasted great at the Co-Op.
    The toast was my idea. Chevre tastes a lot like cream cheese. But more goaty.

     

     

     

  • Getting back to my roots

    I used to post pics of flowers and plants on a different site. I’m starting it up again here at thebrownman.com where the pics will be larger and a little easier to upload because of the WordPress (see below for why it was such a pain to post to the old blog).

    With the old blog, the pictures I took were uploaded to Flickr because Typepad has a really f’ed up way of storing uploads in badly nested folders. WordPress has a media library that gives you a great front end to manage your media. Dealing with Flickr also had problems because I was always having to copy and paste the Flickr url for EACH pic. It was exhausting. WordPress really is a better choice for blogging.