It’s an amazing year for soft fruit this year in the UK. The dose of heat early on kicked started the raspberries, red currents, blackcurrents, white currents and even the cherries, and the damp patch we’re having has filled them out beutifully. Thus the problem of a glut. We’ve had so much soft fruit our [...]
Read On No CommentsThis afternoon I started my training for Septembers charity swim. Whilst working up in Scotland on a job I’m taking a few hours every afternoon to walk, kyak or swim. Today we kyaked round form the beach round an island (dropping off prawn traps on the way) and then half a mile out to sea [...]
I’ve no pictures for this, because I was doing it as part of a dinner party, so you’ll have to just imagine. I should just the nod to Beer Reviews for pointing me in the direction of cider gammon. Take a 1kg ham, or gammon joint. I used an unsmoked one, wanting to bring the [...]
A couple of years ago I bought myself a breadmaker, and I’ve never looked back. I love bread, I love making bread by hand, and take great therapy in kneading and resting, working to find that beautiful silky texture of the dough. However, time is my master at the moment, and being able to wake [...]
That last post was because I could hardly contain myself. Messing about with hardware, scripting and growing things all on the same project was right u my street and I couldn’t resist. I’m working my way up to producing a much bigger and high-res time-lapse project later this year, and this was something of a [...]
I love jerk chicken. In fact, I love Jamaican food. Jerk chicken, curry goat, popperpot stew, Saturday soup, I love it all. There’s something ever refreshing about cooking without cream or thickened sauces, avoiding thick and sticky glazes and having hot food without it being nose-pinchingly spiced. Ideally jerk should be cooked on a half oil drum barbecue, [...]
I’ve wanting to play with Redis, a super speedy key-value pair store, for a while, but there wasn’t readily available way for me to bolt it into my PHP framework of choice CodeIgniter. There was however a good PHP client for Redis in the form of Rediska through, so I decided it was time to roll my [...]
I love popcorn, but I’ve never been a big fan of sweet popcorn, and I do like spicy food. So tonight a new TV dish was born.. Manly Salt and Vinegar and Chilli Popcorn Handful of unpopped popcorn Teaspoon of sunflower oil Half teaspoon salt Half teaspoon of whole black pepper corns Half a dried [...]
[updated] 30th June 2010 MushroomCam is now off line, the still below is the last image it took I’ll explain more about this over the next few weeks, until then, there’s a live (well, updates every 15 minutes) feed from my spare room. Also, the camera is only on from 6am until 8pm, because otherwise [...]