Category: Food
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(Alan) Wake and Bake?
We’re going to need games, and food…lots of food. Before you say “this is supposed to be a gaming blog”, it hasn’t all been cooking. We have been enjoying both Control and Alan Wake 2. The intertwined Remedy-verse provides a lot of fodder for fun cross-overs including characters like the enigmatic Finnish janitor, Ahti, who…
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Bound for Basel (from Zoo to Cordon Bleu)
We spent the past weekend exploring Basel, the cultural capital of Switzerland. Please note, this post contains no AI generated content. (It feels simpler to have a reverse disclaimer these days…) Uniting brutalist concrete wonders with old world wooden architecture, Basel sits astride the Rhine as a corporate powerhouse. Novartis and Roche are headquartered there.…
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Desk Job
Exactly how long can you write about four hooks for? Well reader, you are about to find out. Stick around for a wild ride! First I’d like to ease prospective readers in. Here’s a picture of my exquiste lunch on Monday. It’s a buffalo chicken hot sandwich from Rhubarb & Mustard in Plymouth. For those…
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Platelets, Pathology, Photos, and EgyPtology
Happy New Year! Here’s hoping for a quiet one. Saturday was a busy day. Mouna 2. Climbing. Platelets. I even managed to squeeze some pathology in during the donation. 70 to 90 minutes is a long time to sit in one place, so figuring out how to navigate slides and type with only my left…
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Guess Who’s Cooking Christmas Too (Or Part Two)
Merry Christmas one and all. We’ve left the big day behind, so it’s time to reflect on what matters most…the food! I jest (slightly) but Christmas is our greatest feast day. A celebration to lighten the darkest of days, coming shortly after the longest night, and one to bring families and friends together. And part…
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Christmas Cooking
Time for some Christmas cooking! It’s that time of the year when I decide to camp out in the kitchen. I love the cooking and baking that the festive season brings, and one of my holiday specials is amaretti. In particular a softer version than the commercial classics. They are easily made and don’t require…
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Taking Control
The run up to Christmas has brought with it a bunch of gaming sales, including on the PlayStation store. Control Back in 2019, Remedy released a very interesting game. I didn’t have hardware to play it at the time and it flew under my radar. It seems as though it would be an easy win…
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Didn’t it snow!
Here’s a little taste of our time in Paris. The weather outside was frightful. And there wasn’t a fire in sight-ful. Since we’re stuck out-side, oh. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. We spent last week in and around Disneyland Paris and were treated with a rather magical experience on Thursday when…
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Any Port(o) in a Storm – Port 2
Let me whisk you away from this wintry British weather to a pleasant Autumn day in Porto. We left off moments away from crossing the bridge. What bridge, you ask? The Dom Luís I, of course. This is the bridge that pops up in a lot of the photos of Porto, and rightly so. It’s…
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Any Port(o) in a Storm – Port 1
That should be Part 1, perhaps after too much port. I spent a few days in Porto visiting a laboratory for a digital pathology workshop. Of course, I couldn’t come this far and not spend a bit of time exploring the city on the Douro. Plane. Train. Automobile. And bus. That’s how you get to…
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