Target's Mozzarella Frittata

Since Wage is out of the kitchen this week, Target wanted to revive this blog by posting his recipe here. This is a way yummy breakfast and there are so many variations you can make. Please enjoy!








Ingredients:
6 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup shredded mozzarella
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Pinch salt
1/2 cup chopped green onion
3 chopped basil leaves
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup diced heirloom tomatoes
1 small diced shallot


Directions:
Preheat oven to broil setting.

In medium size bowl, using a wisk, beat together eggs, milk, green onion, basil, mozzarella, pepper, and salt. Heat olive oil in a 12-inch non-stick, oven safe saute pan over medium high heat. Add tomatoes and diced shallot to pan and saute for 2 to 3 minutes. Pour egg mixture into pan and stir with rubber spatula. Cook for 4 to 5 minutes or until the egg mixture has set on the bottom and begins to set around the edges. To ensure that your frittata will slide out of the pan after baking, lightly separate the edges from the pan with your spatula and drizzle a small amount of olive oil down the side of the frittata. Sprinkle with a little more cheese before placing in the oven.

Place pan into oven and broil for 4 to 6 minutes, until lightly browned and fluffy. Slide out of pan onto serving plate and cut into 6 equal slices. Serve immediately. Nom Nom Nom!

- Target

Friday Night

Friday Night
Originally uploaded by Photo David

Got sucked in to vinyl toys again. And they drink beer too. Lord help me.

Diez

Diez
Originally uploaded by Photo David

This was a fun little project. This is the fourth custom Uglydoll Dunny I've done. I don't think they are the most well done creations I've ever seen, but they are fun to make.

This Cinko was pretty simple to make. Obviously, I used the French Dunny with the Pick for this, honestly, I just chose that one so I would have only one ear to trim off, I'm not so great with sculpy.

Speaking of sculpy, his arms are built around he original arms, I wanted them to still move and it was just easier. Although, his arms would look better if I had created new ones; he looks a tad meaty in the shoulders.

After baking, I brush painted him flat acrylic and used elmers painters markers for his face. I'm not entirely happy him, but he's pretty ugly, so I love him.

I just stuck the pic in for this shot because I think big Cinko looks pretty gangsta with his beanie, so I wanted his little Dunny to have a little accessory too.

I used the Sigma 17-70 macro for this picture, shot at 17mm. I also used the SB-600 speedlight pointed at the ceiling for the lighting.

Fun stuff!

Thanks for reading,

-d

Against the Sun

Against the Sun
Originally uploaded by Photo David

Sorry for all the flying Icebat pictures, I just decided to try these "photoshop" like techniques today, so this is all pretty new to me.

For this picture, I shot Icebat on the counter with the 60mm 2.8, using the 600 speedlight pointed at the ceiling.






The background was just a mildly lit wall in my entry, when I clicked "Enhance" in iPhoto, it turned into the sun. Stoked.


From there, Icebat went into Acorn for some eye manipulation. :)

I cut out Icebat in Gimp, pasted him on the background, rotated him, and added mucho motion blur to his lower half.

From there, Icebat went into Picnik for some softening and whitening of the eyes and teeth. A triple shot of saturation sealed the deal. :)

Thanks for reading,
-d

Hanging Bat (Explored)

Hanging Bat (Explored)
Originally uploaded by Photo David

Too funny this pic got so much attention! (and continues to)

Most of my shots are totally planned out, lighting, posing, etc.

Anyways, so we had a BBQ last Saturday and as I was glancing down the hall, I noticed how cool the light was. But, my hall is a pretty boring shot, shot it several times. Never works.

However, Icebat and my D80 were on the counter a few feet away and I thought, what the hell?

I held Icebat in front of the camera and snapped a single quick shot using all the auto settings and AF. I'm really pleased how this came out with minimal editing in picnik.

Thanks for everyone who enjoyed and enjoys this.

-d

Sitting by Herself : 17

Sitting by Herself : 17
Originally uploaded by Photo David

This has been a pretty exciting day in the short little life of my daughter. Here she is, not even 6 months old yet, sitting on the couch all by herself. She sat there like a little angel while I scrambled for the D80. I could have gone the easy route with the iPhone to capture the moment, but I'm so thankful I snapped this look, along with the moment. She's changing so much everyday and I'm so thankful to have started this project when I did. I probably should have done it sooner, say... the first year of her life...
But, it's not like I haven't taken thousands of photos of her since her birth and made several albums, DVDs, etc.

Eva and I are so very proud of our wonderful little daughter, we only wish she would sleep through the night. Even still, the joy she brings us with her cute little smiles and loving giggles make every night from 3-4am well worth the wake-up!

Thanks for reading,

-d

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1163573387

Lines...

Line
Originally uploaded by Photo David

I just love waiting in line! It seems that every location which offers a service, retail or otherwise, is like taking a trip to Disneyland on a Saturday in the middle of Summer. Why is everywhere so crowded?? Over population maybe? Well, I;m doing my part, my daughter is on the way, she'll probably be srriving in the next month.
She'll be one more person to add to the overpopulation and Im sure she'll have children of her own one day to help out with the longer lines... :)
The bottom line of this post:

I can't wait to meet my daughter!!!!

Laguna

Laguna
Originally uploaded by Photo David

Eva's birthday was so magnificent! She looked so beautiful and hung in there like a trooper while everyone celebrated her first pregnant birthday with alcolhol!

It was so beautiful, the fist day was overcast, but her birthday was sunny and bright in Laguna. It was such a beautiful landscape, which yielded a lot of photo opportunities. Eva is so happy and excited still over her weekend.

I love my wife!

Grand Rosa {3}

Grand Rosa {3}
Originally uploaded by Photo David

It's been too long since I wrote a blog, mostly lack of time, which is no exception ATM.
I just want to say that I am so excited to meet Elizabeth, I just can't stand it! Everything I do, I find myself thinking about my daughter and how each moment will be different because she is in my life. Eva and I can't wait to hold her and kiss her, she's already so cute and precious, I can't wait until she is born.
Back to work now! :)
Thanks for reading...

...

So, we had another Dr. appointment yesterday for little Elizabeth. Everything is going good, mommy is taking such good care of herself, the Dr. was very proud. We ended up eating @ the Center City Cafe for lunch...

Just as an amendment to my "Stewpid People" post... The waitress was totally inept. I ordered a diet pepsi when we got there and it took almost 10 minutes to get the drink... How freaking hard is it to put some ice in a cup and press the soda button?? Obviously, the staff @ the cafe were having a very challenging day. Anyways, the waitress got us our food, etc; but then Eva wanted a cup of coffee and a waffle (pregnant cravings strike again!) ... well, we got the waffle, but she never brought us the coffee and took so long getting us our bill.. It might sound like I'm nit picking and maybe I am, I sure as hell wouldn't hustle around for an arsehole like me for minimum wage!!

Uh, I forgot the point of why I started writing this at all...

I guess I'm done now...

Stewpid People!

I really don't want to be on a high horse here, but I'm really getting fed up with the constant mediocrity I'm forced to deal with on a daily basis... Not to mention those who are just plain dumb.

What really bothers me is paying a huge amount of money for something, expecting to get what I paid for, and then being totally let down with a completely lame excuse for a job well done. You don't always get what you pay for!

For instance: I paid $100 to get the inside of my PT Cruiser detailed as I'm preparing to sell it. They took over 2 hours (which I had to spend waiting in 100+ degree heat) and then I finally got to drive it home. The kicker came when I got home and showed it to my wife, of course with a proud tone in my voice, as she immediately points out a few spots on the passenger seat and some uncleaned gunk on the plastic e-brake covering...

Now, I didn't notice this myself, probably because there was plastic all over the seats when I got in the car, but at the same time, that's pretty lame they didn't catch/clean that when they could/should have.

Lame!

Also, just stupid people in general are really bugging me for some reason. I hate it when I tell someone something, over and over, and they still get it wrong! You know when you're telling someone something and you know they aren't listening, but you just keep talking, thinking "They can't possibly be ignoring me as much as I think they are," but they are!!!

Really, really LAME! :)

The End

Bleh!

Low Carb breakfast...

Well, I must say that I do miss the potatoes; although the cottage cheese is nice... Why is it that this shite is healthy again?? I got 2 strips of bacon, 2 sausage links (which I'm sure loaded in saturated fat) 2 scrambled eggs, and a scoop of runny cottage cheese... Can someone tell me why the greasy pork I just ate is somehow better than some freaking hashbrowns??

Oh well..

Elizabeth's Ticker

Little Elizabeth

I can't express enough how excited I am for our little girl to be born. We've decided on Elizabeth Camille Martinez DeLaRosa... Wow... that's a lot to type... Well, the Martinez part is sort of a second middle name, but she won't have to write it. We didn't want to hyphenate it or anything, but Eva's dad never had boys and Eva has always loved her last name, so we decided to keep it in there.

Little Elizabeth has been kicking mommy a lot these days, we have another Dr.'s appt. this Thursday, so we are excited (as always) to see her moving about on the ultrasound machine. She's such a little cutie already, her cheeks I'm sure are getting quite chubby, so the next 4D ultrasound (in four weeks!) should look really good and give us an incredible view inside the womb for a first detailed look at little Elizabeth.

Here's some images so far...

Some 3D ultrasound images-








Her first pair of little shoes; sent to us from the Hatch Family-