Category: Food
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Spooky Season
Creatures crawl in search of blood, To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood Spooky season is fast approaching, and with it comes the annual tradition. One that has been long observed. A tradition steeped in Irish history. A time when everyone gets together for a laugh or two. A few folks dress up. Some spooky happenings may, or…
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Autumn and Apples, Barbecue and Baking
October. Apples. Cinnamon. Bonfires. Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Barbecues. Wait, wait? ABBQ (the extra A is for Autumnal…) Yes, I have gone a little mad. And yes, I have embraced the “all year” kamado cooking philosophy. I bought a pork shoulder and some beef brisket to smoke in my ongoing exploration of all things kamado. I…
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Le Weekend
A quick weekend update. Game update to follow. Cheers We have had two dodgy batches of easy peeler oranges from Tesco in recent days. They look and feel perfectly fine until peeled, then they rear their sorry-looking, dehydrated segments. Compost, then? Nope. When life gives you crappy oranges, juice them. Today they have gone into…
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Just Keep Digging (and Mixing)
Or should that be shovelling? We left off last time with a hole in the garden. It was a deliberately shaped hole, but a hole nevertheless. Almost a tonne of topsoil. And what do you do with a hole in the garden? Fill it in, of course. The first step was a layer of sand…
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Ghent – The Low Countries Part 2, Even Lower
After a few days in The Hague, we leisurely made our way to Ghent in Belgium for the second conference on the books. We spent another night in The Hague after a packed day of post-conference social events. The plan had been to take the train down to Ghent in Belgium but that was a…
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Den Haag, The Low Countries Part 1 (Part 2 gets even Lower)
To say a lot has happened since the last post would be something of an understatement. I better get writing! I have attended two conferences. Presented two posters. Travelled to four countries (Scotland, Netherlands, Belgium, USA). Taken six flights. Five rail trips. Countless bus journeys. Traversed two states by long distance rail (California to Oregon).…
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Changing (Bath)Rooms
This past week included a partial bathroom demolition, all part of the legacy of a the previous owner of our house. When replacing your bathroom flooring is like running an archaeological dig, you know something has gone wrong. You can date the flooring by the layers. Plywood, followed by tile adhesive, followed by tiles. Yup,…
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ABBQ
The extra “A” stands for the Aldi Kamado BBBQ. The extra “B”? That’s a typo… (Is that an esoteric reference? Real Simpsons fans think otherwise) Kamado Karl? Like pretty much everything we use in day to day life (paper, printing, gunpowder…) the kamado ceramic BBQ has its origin in ancient China. That stove eventually made…
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Building Frames, Breaking Earth, and Barbecue
The last couple of weeks have been dominated by the delivery of our Growplay climbing frame. Building it was easy. Sorting the play area is another matter… My plan to have all the ground work done before building the frame didn’t quite happen. The frame components arrived last Friday, but the sleepers and stones were…
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Garden Clearing and Good Food
The weather has been…interesting, as of late. Getting stuff done outside has been a challenge but thankfully the weekend brought sunshine. The latest project involves building a big play area which will replace most of the old patio. If you remember from last year, I lifted a lot of the slabs to build the base…
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