Boxcar Kitchen

Although this month has been short on posts, it hasn’t been short on much else. My sister and her husband came to visit from San Francisco and with them they brought my brand spanking new Pentax K10D. My first ever digital reflex, YEAH!!! After spending an all too short visit running around Paris making sure that my sis got to taste the very best of everything (alas the list is WAY too long), I settled down to business. For the first time in my life, I am one of those people that actually read the manual and the hub is oh so proud of me for it. Honestly though, there are so many buttons and special features on this camera that I sometimes think K10D is smarter than me. The next step is to tackle my development software that is already humming away happily on my laptop. I am totally spoiled.

These brown buttons were the subject of my first "photo session" with the new equipment and I felt like such a paparazzi. Something delicious will soon happen to these beauties; I promise. I did realize though that I wasn't quite sure what brown buttons actually are and after a quick search, I learned that brown buttons, cremini and portabella mushrooms are all pretty much the same thing. I'm probably the last person on planet earth to figure this one out but, better late than never. Cremini mushrooms are immature portabellas- baby portabellas. And apparently, the only difference between them is another 48 - 72 more hours of growth. Again, this is most likely common knowledge but I was flabbergasted. The other good news is that now I can finally stop complaining that we don't have portabellas in France and pull out some favorite recipe.