Well, the #steemit-ironchef challenge this week is bananas. And a very fine learning experience for me! In short, I reduced a can of coconut milk with green curry paste and added chopped banana peel and

Pumpkin! I did some reading and found out that the plant on which pumpkins grow is the same species that gives us a wide variety of squash including the summer squash! The heck?!? Anyway, once I found

I guess you'd call this a starter -- at least I like to start my meals with a fine drink! I'm trying to play along as an amateur foodie with the Steemit-IronChef competition. See this post for the current

I don't quite know what it is, but this is one of my favorite composite images. I took this in the morning at the park behind the house where my grandparents lived thirty years ago. The direct lighting

It's cooling off here in Minnesota and I took my last chance to take the family camping the other weekend before the winter weather blows in. It was our first trip to Father Hennepin State Park on the

We've been ordering Hatch chile delivery, roasted and prepped for us at the end of summer each year for a while. They're pretty expensive that way. So this year we decided to get fresh chiles and do it

I'm trying to start a collaborative dungeon project and this is the first room! It's an irregular cavern, smaller than 20x20 feet. The floors of the chamber and the tunnel leading to it are muddy, with

Eggplant?! I just discovered the Steemit Iron Chef challenge by @progressivechef, and of course the first week that I can jump in is eggplant. I'm not the hugest fan of eggplant. I mean, I love a good

I'm following along with @mortaine's 30 days of worldbuilding exercise. Go see the day two instructions if you're interested! My output from this looks like this: Physical Features: Jungle - hot; vibrant;

Let's make a dungeon together! I've written some software that spits out randomized maps, so we can use those. The maps each consists of a network of rooms, chambers and caverns, connected by corridors.

There's a weekly digital photo-editing contest and this is my submission for the third week. Like my entry from last week, I used DeepDream for redrawing the B+W images using an appropriate colored style

Over here there's photo-editing competition where we're supposed to use a black and white image of a lion as a starting place and then produce an output image. didn't really start out knowing what I wanted

So hey! This is an instance of Vincent Baker's game THE SUNDERED LAND: A Doomed Pilgrim in the Ruins of the Future which was designed for play on social media platforms. I'm making little tweaks to fit

This is the chat thread! We're playing a game of Doomed Pilgrim here on Steem and over in the game thread, that's just for the running game -- the narrative formed by asking and answering questions. This

I ran across a plant-themed black and white photography contest hosted by @daveks and judged by @papa-pepper. I'm new here and don't know these folks, but it seemed like fun to participate. Taking a few

Randomizing Names I built a tool to help me with generate lists of names (or words) that are consistent enough to seem like they're from some vaguely foreign culture. I did this to help with the creation

Over at @creativesoul is hosting a neat art contest. You start by downloading a base image and then manipulate it using whatever tools and techniques you like, to create a new image from the old. Here's

It's the last holiday weekend of the summer here in the US and it's pretty typical to get some yardwork in. So While I was weeding the bed that contains our mailbox, I remembered that Sunday's color challenge

So, I stopped off at Total Wine after going to the grocery store next door. I was looking for a cheapish bourbon, and I bought one -- some "bottled in bond" thing for $20 or whatever. But I can't

I filtered an image of my daughter into an app on my phone called Toon Dream and managed to create this. I think it turned out pretty well -- she looks more dangerous here than in real life. :-)