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My Dinner with Betty

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My Dinner with Betty
Photo-A-Day #1384

Average Betty that is. I have just started getting into this great food related podcast called AverageBetty. A while back I was at Staples and I saw thing gadget called the Mi book that was basically a video viewer for Food Network recipes, a visual way to see a recipe and cook. After seeing that I thought to myself, I bet that someone had the great idea of doing a show like that as a podcast and I can download it for free on my iPod/iPod Touch. There certainly is a great show and it is called Average Betty.

The way to describe Average Betty is that it is a show with the frenetic energy of Alton Brown – the major food knowledge + great hair + edginess – measures and recipe details + sketch comedy + a cast of “Betty” Characters – long drawn out details of other shows. Betty is fast, entertaining and the food leaves you wanting more of both Betty and the food. Betty has an amazing personality on screen and plays a bunch of fun and funny characters that toss around pop culture references like a pigskin in a backyard touch football game played by overly caffeinated Chihuahuas. It is my new favorite podcast, sorry Cali and GeekBrief.tv but Betty actually tells me about stuff that won’t break the budget.

If you are upset that the videos don’t have the full recipes never fear you can go to AverageBetty.com and get the recipes for the delicious meals and snacks and desserts that Betty is cooking up. There are step by step instructions with color photos. See, save the boring instructional stuff for the written page but keep the sexy (and by that I mean the final images of the food) fun stuff for the videos.

All of these great recipes and podcasts made my BLT and Cheese from D’Angelo pale in comparison even if I did ask them to put in a little thousand island to give the meal a little kick.

Photo-A-Day

Santa Shorts

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Santa Shorts
Photo-A-Day #1350

Today was a good day! Why? Well it started off with me recording a video reveal of the winner of BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!. You can watch the video below but I’ll tell you, the winner was Baba of Babas Farm Life. She is really excited and her Big Box of Awesome! is on its way to her as of 4:30pm today. She wrote a really nice post on her blog about winning and she gave me one of my favorite descriptions of my self ever. “Who is Ben Spark you ask? Just the funniest geek techno family blogger and wonderful photographer around the blogosphere.” It must have been the shorts. 🙂

Also in the mail is a broken ipod shuffle, it is going to JoeTech.com to see if he can fix it and then give it away on his blog. Cross your fingers.

The Big Box of Awesome! contest was so much fun, here are some stats on the contest. 29 other bloggers “revealed” items in the box. There were 42 items in the box. 39 were revealed online (one on Market Leverage TV too) and there were 3 additional items tossed in after everything was said and done. In the past month that post was the highest for pageviews. My readership increased by about 50 and I learned how to make use of many social networks to promote the posts that the 29 other bloggers wrote. I think this was a pretty successful contest seeing as I merely gave away items that I would no longer use. I learned quite a few things from this contest, most important was that bloggers are some damn nice people.

I took a few more photos tonight of Eva wearing daddy’s ho ho ho hat (type that on a Flickr note to get a Santa Hat to appear). And one really sweet one of Allison and Eva.

So Happy

To Big

It Fits

Oh and I have to explain the card. This was a Christmas card from Dina at Market Leverage. She sent it to me out of the blue, just like she offered to put one of my items on Market Leverage TV. Thanks Dina.