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HAVE YOU EVER: COOKING EDITION
Five years. Five years without posting. Oops, that wasn't intended. We've moved house, new desk I've setup with the laptop and a spare monitor--the linux desktop doesn't appear to have survived 6 months in storage, propably fixable, it''s On The List, but nowhere near top. Anyway, going to try to start posting regularly, because, well, Facebook is ( Read more... ) -
Snack of the day: battered halloumi and quorn in a wrap
I love gram flour. It's awesome, you can do so many things with it and it's gluten free¹. OK, mostly what I do with it is make a batter an deep fry stuff, but that's just nice.
I've messed around making bhajis, pakoras and, well, stuff. Tonight, I went for chunks of halloumi cheese and some quorn cocktail sausages I'd forgotten to use when we had ( Read more... ) -
Science Fiction Double Feature redux
I still love Rocky Horror, despite the age now showing, especially with the gender politics stuff (it was radical and progressive at the time).
Going through my archives[1] I found the video I posted 5 years ago has succumbed to bitrot and a takedown notice, so I had a quick look and found two alternative versions:
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Corruption scandals make good telly (and film)
7 film and TV series set in the exciting world of municipal government::Gritty political thriller about a corruption scandal in which car companies buy up Los Angeles' streetcar network, purely so they can rip it up, thus forcing the public to buy more cars. Also features a cartoon rabbit.
By that strange bloke
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Humans: Relentless, tribal pursuit predators
I like working on open source projects-just updated the gameplay description for humanity in Free Orion:Description ( Read more... ) -
In Weird West America, Deputy shoots you
Doomtown Reloaded is launched at Gencon this coming weekend, with a worldwide release date set for September 8th ( Read more... ) -
Lime and Ginger cheesecake
Just had a second slice, it hadn't quite finished setting before I turned in last night so a very late pudding. Based, loosely, on two recipe's in Mary Berry's Baking Bible but with a few variants of my own ( Read more... ) -
Baked: Shredded Lime Cupcakes
Made these to follow on from Jennie cooking a sausage casserole (separate Quorn for me) based on a Grauniad recipe from yesterday, as the oven was on I made pudding. They're very nice, and very sour, citrussy cakes. And I really do mean sour ( Read more... )
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