Whiskey Apple Bacon Cranberry Cornbread Stuffing Balls

Oh Thanksgiving, the most food glorious of holidays. Everyone loves a well brined bird and some smooth sweet potatoes, but we all know the most satisfying part of the Thanksgiving meal is the stuffing. Thank the Ahlquist family for sharing their traditions with me last year, they gave me the idea to alter my own recipe into the shape of balls. Whiskey Apple Bacon Cranberry Cornbread Stuffing Balls: its a mouth full.

ISO 1600, 250, 250

35mm
f/7.1, f/5.0, f/5.0

1/25 sec. [430ex speedlite on the last two]

KBBQ at home!

For a long time I have deeply enjoyed a genre of foods known as KBBQ or Korean BBQ. Such establishments commonly have little gas powered BBQs embedded into their dining tables, and provide, for some nominal fee, limitless meats to be grilled therein. Today I did the unthinkable. My mother, God bless her, brought home, presumably from a Korean market, an otherworldly amount of Korean style marinated short ribs. I made them, and sautéed some mushrooms and green onions, and toasted up a baguette. KBBQ! At Home!

ISO 1000
35mm
f/4.0
1/30sec

Bun Thit Noung

So my mother has been on a streak, she has been making all these wonderful, colorful, childhood favorite Vietnamese foods for me to eat. Guess who has been eating and taking pictures of them. This is Bun Thit Noung. Or rice noodles, with grilled pork and shrimp. There is a mysterious melange of vegetables and herbs in there, basil, mint, some herbs that don't have recognizable English names. Some pickled carrots as well. Topped with crispy garlic and fresh home made fish sauce. Oh yeah. its good.

ISO 1600

16mm

f/4.0

1/60 sec