Humble Garden 2008 from nika on Vimeo. Here is the Humble Garden video for 2008 (I shoot these with my MacBook Pro, forgive the quality). In it I share my family, our organic vegetable garden, our chickens, our LaMancha diary goats and our guard Llama. I also share a bit of my Colombian culture through...

Just a note to let you know that your feed isnt busted and that my blog is not melting down. As part of the migration process, various trackbacks are pinging in new comments and some of the posts with internal reference links have been changed. This is why you are getting older content...

Pim has announced the winners of the 2006 Menu for Hope charity event over at her Chez Pim post today. Check out that link to see if you won and what you won. Did you know that the 2006 Menu For Hope raised $60,925.12 ?! Thats just mind-bending! For the winners of my prints and ...

Matt over at Matt Bites had a lovely post detailing his home in LA. It was great in that it really localized you into his own slice of LA. Michael over at Chicken Fried Gourmet suggested that more food bloggers might do right by writing a bit about their own homes/worlds. This is my “Where do...

In the appreciation of Mr. Momofuku Ando, the late inventor of ramen noodles (1-9-07 ed New York Times by Lawerence Downes) Downes said, “Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Give him ramen noodles, and you don’t have to teach him anything”. Mr. Downes does a beautiful job of summing up...

(There is more ice in this photo than in this MA winter, so far)I do Christmas, Easter, the solstices, beltane, samhain, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, birthdays, all of that (all in an areligious way). I have even done a Seder for cultural growth for the little ones (my husband was amazed and...

(Medium format via CS2 © 2006 Nika) A bit of navel gazing today. Why do we blog? Why do I blog? The truth is that it is a way to have a conversation with you about something that I find, obviously, endlessly interesting: Photography. It so happens that I find food most...

(My food photo and blog bookshelf © 2006 Nika) Things are settling down from the whirlwind of the birth and integrating the new little guy into our lives. Lots of cleaning has been happening (millions thanks to my mom who has been a HUGE help and who unfortunately just left today!). With the cleaning came some...

(Wild lighting effects from relighting candles © 2006 Nika) Our oldest daughter Q celebrated 10 years on this earth so we had a bit of a bash. It was pretty low key, just family. Since the birthday is near Halloween the party takes up that theme. We made birthday cupcakes with cute scary decorations. (© 2006 Nika) (© 2006...

(Re-ment Tuna Stew © 2006 Nika) Kawaisa or Kawaii – When being cute becomes a meta-cultural and political phenomenon. It is such a huge concept in Japanese popular culture that I refer you to the following links for further academic study of this odd but fascinating cultural mania: Kawaii wiki entry All Things Kawaii Onatoko – Japanese street...