Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass at the MFA

This adventure is from a while back, but over the 4th of July weekend we took advantage of the MFA's Free Fun Friday and went to see the Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass exhibit. In the past I've seen some other Chihuly pieces at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, the Albert and Victoria Museum in London, and the Mohegan Sun Casino in CT but this exhibit was great because you could get so close to the glass. There was also a special movie showing Chihuly through the years in action with his team creating new installations around the world. Here are some of the shots I got.

From a distance I thought this one was a real plant. It was custom made for the MFA's atrium and they are trying to raise the money to buy the piece for the permanent collection


Chandeliers!


Close Up - looks like orange grubs


Zoomed out - still kinda looks like orange grubs


This is a shot of underneath ones of the chandeliers.


I took this photo and then like 5 other people turned around to take the same one.


Kind of a funny narration about the next photo


Close ups



Glass mystical forest


Glass in a boat - the mirror reflecting was cool too.


One last light


~emy

Experimental Cooking - Grilled Pizza

Much like the Jersey Shore my friends and I have started to have a weekly family dinner on Sunday night. Granted this has only happened twice and the next few weeks are iffy and then football will start. So maybe it will be very short lived but it has been a lot of fun.

Getting to the food point. It's summer which mean pulling out the grill, but hot dogs, hamburgers and grilled chicken was getting old, so we decided to try out grilled pizza. It didn't seem that hard roll out dough, brush with olive oil, grill add toppings, grill some more. All the article about grilling pizza said the key was being organized, which we were - but that didn't help out our first pizza from being half a disaster. I say half because only half of it burned into an blackened mess.

Key point missing from all of those "How to grill pizza" articles: Cook smaller pizzas!!! Don't use all the dough at once!!! Being lazy, we bought pre-made dough and mistakenly rolled the whole thing out and try to put it all on the grill at once. It folded on itself and wasn't really spread out because it was super hard to get on the grill. The 2nd rolled out pizza we cut into 3 smaller pieces and it worked out soooo much better.

Check out the results - the messed up pizza isn't there, though we did eat it still:

Closest pizza = arugula, prosciutto and cheese
Middle = cheese
Farthest = grilled peppers & onions and cheese (it was also kinda shaped like the USA, but it's hard to tell from this angle)

~emy