Some high thin clouds add an interesting background to tonight’s efforts.
A stack of 182 30s images, f/5.6 ISO 800. Click through to see the full size 3456×2304 image. Look closely and you’ll see dots from high flying airplanes. See if you can spot the streak of what I think might have been a passing satellite.
Tortill-za
Pizza has always been one of my favourite food groups. Sadly it isn’t really all that compatible with my low-carb lifestyle now, unless I want to deal with big blood glucose spikes.
Then the thought occurred to me that instead of regular pizza crust (which is where the problem lies), I need a low-carb crust. I’ve seen various recipes on a diabetes forum I’ve been hanging out in for low carb pizza crusts using ingredients like almond or coconut flour, or a low carb biscuit flour.
How about tortillas? I found some low carb tortillas a while back that tasted pretty decent. They seemed like they would do pretty well for a pizza crust.
Take one or two tortillas (the ones I used were 6″ diameter) and spread a little pizza sauce on them (~1 Tbsp). I leave a bit of unsauced edge to make it a little easier to pick up for eating. Top with whatever you like. I suggest going a little easy on the cheese because without the bready crust to soak up the cheese oil, it just gets all over the place and becomes all messy (unless you like that sort of thing).
Slide onto a pan that you’ve had heating up in the oven (I like to heat them up in a 500°F oven). This will help make the tortilla “crust” nice and crispy. Bake until the cheese is all melty and brown (~5 minutes). Remove, let cool a bit and cut into slices. Eat.
Stars and planes
A stack of 54 30s exposures, f/3.5 ISO 400. A few planes flew by to add some interesting elements.
Charleston’s night sky
20s exposure of Charleston’s night sky.
Busy weekend in store
I think this is going to be one of those weekends where I’ve over-committed myself just a little bit. That’s what I get for doing things without consulting the all-mighty calendar first.
First there’s volunteering at the aquarium. The Camp Carolina exhibit has gone away to make room for a new Madagascar exhibit, so it will be interesting to see what kind of progress has been made in the last two weeks.
Then a quick run to pick up this week’s Ambrose Farm CSA and then off to the fairgrounds for the Charleston Kennel Club dog show. Always a fun time there.
From there it’s out to Folly Beach for a second attempt at doing some star trails. Hopefully I haven’t run into my second battery by then, otherwise I won’t be doing star trails for very long.
Then if I haven’t completely worn myself out, dig into the stack of papers I’m supposed to be reading to prepare for writing the proposal for my PhD qualifer.
Sunday is all dog show and more reading.
Whee.