Football Ham

Football Ham, originally uploaded by mkgillman.

So walking through the grocery store today I ran across two very odd food items. The first of which is the football ham. Now, I'm a big ham fan, but honestly if the biggest thing a food has going for it is a passing resemblance to a sporting good, that is not a good sign. It should be also noted that the packaging seems to be remarkably inconsistent as some of the "threads" have more detail certain packages. The biggest problem of course is that once the ham is removed from the packaging to be eaten the only redeeming value will be gone and you will just be left with an oddly shaped ham.



The faux bacon is the worst offender though. Seriously, when you became a vegetarian you lost your bacon privileges. This does not look anything like real bacon and I will put a crisp new 20 dollar bill on the line that it does not taste like bacon either. Bacon cannot be emulated. It is the greatest solid food in existence and there is no way to replicate it with soy products. Come back to the magical world of pork for your bacon. Oh yeah, a box of this junk also cost 5 bucks which would buy many more strips of wonderful bacon goodness.

Mugging

Mugging, originally uploaded by mkgillman.

As seems to be the case with this blog, I'm right around a week late in updating the thing. I do have something of a vague excuse though. I didn't have any meaningful access to my computer until Sunday and since that point all of my photo editing time has been spent on another project.

On Thanksgiving some two very good friends got engaged and as a bit of a present for them I did a portrait shoot on Sunday. By way of a shameless self promotion, head over to the Flickr page (you can just click on any photo that I post here) and check out a lot of pictures from the shoot as well as more turkey day shots.

We rented a house down in Girdwood again this year and along with about 15 odd people we celebrated Thanksgiving in style. I cooked a 21.86 lbs. turkey and there was much other foodly goodness to accompany the bird. The only problem was that the crawlspaces in the house all seemed to be infested.

Now for the obligatory goofy picture of mere and the baby.

Snack Time

Snack Time, originally uploaded by mkgillman.

Brady is actually having quite a good time with the whole eating experiment. One of the first things that she figured out after birth was that sticking things in her mouth was a commendable past time. I figure that makes a good deal of sense that as a species we would try to figure out this whole eating thing as quickly as possible.

Of course the downside of this real food process is that it as my darling daughter moves more toward real people food, she also makes real people messes. At this point though it appears that parenting is largely cleaning up after her.

Prom of the Living Dead

IMG_1775, originally uploaded by mkgillman.

Over the weekend we finally got to hold the Prom of the Living Dead. Some absolutely ghoulish costumes at the party.









Good times had by all.