2 large sweet onions diced (vidalia or oso)
8 diced garlic cloves
2 cans of diced tomatoes (petite work best)
20 diced serranos (completely optional, if you do use them chop them up very fine in a food processor)
2 blocks of Philadelphia Cream Cheese softened
1 pint of whole cream
4 cups of shredded sharp cheddar cheese
4 cups of shredded monterey jack cheese
4 table spoons of red wine vinegar
1 32oz bag of frozen chopped spinach
1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil
Saute olive oil, onions, garlic & serranos until soft. Add tomatoes and spinach and bring to a boil. Pour over cream cheese and mix thoroughly. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and bake at 375 for 40 minutes. Stir and cool before serving.
Food, Ramblings dip, Food, recipie, spinach, yum
So for a while I’ve had photos scattered in a few different places, I’ve decided to consolidate everything onto flickr (at least for the time being). I don’t love flickr’s presentation but I can’t argue with their usability. There are just more tools out there and flikr is the 500lb gorilla as far as community and sharing sites.
The only photos that will be public are the ’style’ type photos. All the personal stuff will be Friend/Family only as appropriate. I’m sure a time will come when I may want to be able to see pictures of my kids but for right now I’m going to protect their privacy. Joining flickr is free and I recommend anyone interested in joining and adding me as a contact. I’ll return the favor and you can see all the cuteness/etc to your hearts content.
The photostream will pull in on the sidebar and can be found directly at flickr.com/photos/stickm
Parenthood, Photography family, Photography, photos
Today I upped my family by one, increased my available tax deductions and created another justification for a larger car. My daughter Maggie Anne MacLeod was born at 12:52pm today, 8lbs 7os, 22″ long. Mom and Maggie are doing just fine. A few pictures can be found at picasaweb.google.com/stick265/Maggie
Parenthood, Ramblings baby, family, maggie
The weather was beautiful here so I spent a bit of time at pullen park taking some photos. 
Photography, Ramblings nature, Photography, photos, pullenpark
Using this I built my own remote shutter trigger this evening. I found a Body Glove Earglove Sport at Walmart for $10, sadly every Dollar store I tried didn’t have any wired mobile phone headsets, Big Lots was no help either. As per instructions I did have to remove the microphone, but honestly the hardest part of the whole thing was getting into the housing the contained the button and the mic. I tested it with about 15 shots in different modes with my Canon T1i and it works great.
The one drawback is that the button doesn’t depress half-way so you can’t enage focus lock without also engaging the shutter. My plan to counter act that is to compose and focus beforehand then switch to MF to prevent AF from refocusing unintentionally, if anyone has any additional ideas leave them in the comments.
Photography camera, canon, diy, hacking, Photography
