Category: Food
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Sun, Bagels, and Soil
Plymouth has had some stunning weather recently, almost making up for the wet week in Barcelona. That means plenty of time to get the garden organised. No Knead Bagels (Again!) I’ve cracked the no-knead bagel approach which is fairly hands off, adapting a recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction. The only slightly fiddly bit is the…
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The Rain in Spain (Barcelona Edition)
Want to see some photos of food? I’ve got plenty. I can confirm, in fact, that the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains in and around Barcelona. People have drowned in less. Barcelona is not really designed to cope with this amount of rain. There are a serious amount of impermeable surfaces and…
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Shed Loads of Work
It starts with a mess. The workshop shed has been up since late August/early September last year. After the monumental effort preparing for and building said shed, I didn’t have a lot of energy left to do much else. Time went by, and other more pressing concerns arose (including a leaking pipe leading to some…
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Saws, Coffee, and Lego
We squeezed in a trip to Reading and LEGOLAND over the weekend. Here’s a quick recap of what’s going on. Mobile Dimension Saw My brother and his wife have spent the last three years working with a rather niche product. They bought a company that manufactures portable saw mills in Oregon, USA. The embedded video…
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Fried Chicken and Brain Frying Bikes
Bikes and fried chicken. The curse of the semi-early adopter. VanMoof X3 (Thrice the name, thrice the pain…) If you’ve followed my writing over the last year, you may well remember my VanMoof-related strife. My wife’s VanMoof X3 stopped working reliably thanks to a break within the motor cable, and the only way of fixing…
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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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