All the food bloggers are doing it! – Posting pictures of pets
I’m going to be up front here and say that this is something that used to drive me insane with food bloggers. I would be skimming through tons of food posts with lots of recipes and delicious pictures, and then all of a sudden, bam! It’s a picture of a dog. 
Seriously. Why is there a picture of your dog wedged in between the picture of you chopping onions and the picture of this gorgeous dish you’ve made. Why?? At one point it got bad enough that when I was skipping through all the posts in my feed reader, I would take bets with myself on how many posts I could get through before seeing a picture of somebody’s dog.
I know people love their pets and I love mine, of course, but there’s something not so appetizing about drooling over a scrumptious brownie….and then seeing a dog drooling over them as well. Hmph. Then again, for all those who treat their dogs like their children, I’m sure this will offend them immensely. I just never understood why the dog pictures showed up in the middle of the posts instead of maybe at the beginning, the end, or in an entirely different post even. Most times there was no caption, no explanation, and no logical reason to see a random picture of a dog grinning at the camera.
So here I am, going to post pictures of our pets. I’m even going to write several posts where the pets will be featured. But there will be a reason in every single one of them, and I can guarantee you they won’t be random pictures of the pets in completely unrelated recipe posts.
After all, that’s what all the other food bloggers are doing, and that’s just not my style. ;) 
Mushroom, mushroom!
*Edit* Grr, I don’t know why the YouTube videos haven’t been embedding properly lately. Sorry. :(
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom, mushroom!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom, mushroom!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom mushroom!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Argh, snake, argh, a snake! Snaaake! Snaaaake! Ooooooh it’s a snake!
Yep, that’s the song I was singing the entire time I was chopping mushrooms, sometimes while the YouTube video played on loop and sometimes sans music backup.
The fruits (or would that be fungus?) of my labor:
Cream of mushroom soup
Portabello goodies:
Served as pie wedges
Mushroom poppers, slices, etc – several bowls left that were used for a variety of dishes
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger…..mushroom, mushroom!! <3 :P
Buying fresh vs store bought – Pink vs brown paste
Which one of those looks more appetizing? If you’re a vegetarian or weirded out by raw meat, your opinion doesn’t count. :P Maybe “which one looks more real?” is the better question. You should be able to click the picture to get a larger view, but if not, here’s the link.
Either way, I couldn’t help but snap this picture of sauage one morning. I’d just had a fresh hog butchered, but wanted to finish up some already purchased sausage that I had, so I was going to combine the two.
It was really hard to want to eat the storebought paste after not only see how drastically different the colors were, but also that the glue on the right is roughly the same color as my kitchen counter. I don’t think that’s normal, heh.
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