The Beckyan Deli

The Beckyan Deli

  • Stringing everyone along

    StringsOriginally uploaded by R Stanek I know I’m late on this week’s picture. In my defense, I have a million excuses, including (but not limited to) traveling, the holiday weekend, family in town, and going back to work. Enough of that. Look! It’s another picture with diagonal lines! And as I dig through the archives,…

  • Walking on sunshine

    BacklitOriginally uploaded by R Stanek I’d been wondering how I was going to find time for photography, now that I’m going back to work. And the answer is — weekend walks with the whole family! Of course. We’re having a great winter — enough rain that the mountains are green again, but lots of sunny…

  • Pretty in Pink

    ScarvesOriginally uploaded by R Stanek I’ve started wearing scarves on breezy days to stay warm. In fact, I try to always have earrings and a scarf on when I leave the house — since I don’t wear makeup, it’s a good way to feel less frumpy, and to make sure I’m taking care of myself.…

  • Tilted a New Way

    Lined upOriginally uploaded by R Stanek It’s been raining here for the past week, so time to dig into the archives again. I love the Santa Barbara Harbor (Marina? Does it have an official name?), and yet for all the happy times I’ve wandered around there with my camera, I’ve only uploaded about half a…

  • Pining for more time

    Spiny PinyOriginally uploaded by R Stanek What is this? A picture actually taken in this calendar year? You don’t say! Sam will be starting daycare in three weeks — eeek! — and while he won’t be there full-time, he still has to get used to taking his food from the bottle, instead of directly from…

  • Mexican Rice

    You can’t have cheese enchiladas without rice and beans! So here is our favorite Mexican rice recipe, which can be made in parallel with the enchiladas. (I must admit here that we usually use canned refried beans with the enchiladas, although I promise to post our refried bean recipe in the not-too-distant future). The recipe…

  • Grating Tomatoes

    In my last recipe, for cheese enchiladas, I said that the tomato for the chili gravy should be “grated”. (We also use a grated tomato in our saag paneer recipe as well as the forthcoming recipe for Mexican rice). This has caused some confusion and consternation amongst the legions of fans of the Beckyan Deli,…

  • Cheese Enchiladas

    Some time back in 2004 or 2005 Becky and I first tried to make cheese enchiladas. I’ve loved cheese enchiladas since I was a kid, and this is a fantastic and fun vegetarian meal. We first tried the recipe from the Sundays at Moosewood cookbook, and it was awful. Bland, unsatisfying, strange, and dry. So…

  • Cleaning Up and Looking Back

    Lighting the wayOriginally uploaded by R Stanek I’ve never met a hard drive I couldn’t pack to the gills. Even so, in 2007, when I got my current laptop, 160 GB seemed like an enormous amount of space. That was before I got a DSLR with 12 MP, of course. Two thousand pictures later, some…

  • Wine Tasting with Aunt Amanda!

    Eli’s sister Amanda visited for a few days, so what did we do, as we do with all our guests when I’m not pregnant? Wine tasting! It was a gorgeous day on the central coast for some wine tasting. We started at Zaca Mesa, whose viognier we really love. The wines, and my brief comments…

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