We’re not crazy climbers or munro baggers like quite a lot of people we know, but we enjoy walking. The longer the better, so long as there is chocolate in the bag. And while there are many possible hikes around LA, the ones we prefer were shut due to the wildfires last autumn, and have […]
Some light entertainment to start the rodent-ious year:
One of the things I missed the most on arrival in LA too-many-years-ago-now were oatcakes. Just plain old oatcakes. [Backstory. Ignore and skip down a page for photo and recipe] About 5 years ago, in a spurt of healthiness (i.e. I felt like creeaap and decided to do something about it), I caved in and […]
Photo- and grease-heavy post. Look away now if you’re on a diet, plan to go on a diet or have ever been on a diet. The C/W mega-lab had its inaugural Cheap-and-Cheerful Dinner Club meeting this Sunday past at Max’s of Manila in Glendale. To which Chotda replied: Why indeed? It came recommended by a […]
Mr P in reply to a query aboot food: If we are in a hurry, Maybe we should do curry, If you want to cry, Lets have Thai. If in Doubt, lets eat Kraut. If you like the chatta, lets eat crispy Pata……
Singapore: a clean, tropical island state that has strongly discouraged1 public performances of the fairly innocuous Complaints Choir (the original Birmingham version, in the home country of the bright sparks who thought it up-Helsinki and elsewhere in the world). (via the ever on-the-ball Elia Diodati) Copied and pasted from the choir’s website, an explanation of […]
We exposed the dog to her first experience of snow last weekend in the San Bernadino mountains. I think she enjoyed it.
I’m a bit of a sucker for the “dump everything in” school of baking, given that I spend every day dealing with micro-volumes of nasty chemicals in multi-step, multi-day techniques dans les labo. So whenever Santos recommends an all-in-one-no-washing-no-hassle recipe, (see here for prior eg.), the baking pans come out. The timing of the recent […]
Just a quickie while I grapple with iMovie to make yet another dire home video and struggle with the RAW files off the beast. In the run-up to the public consultation on the authoritarian SOCPA laws, various liberal-leaning folk like Curious Hamster and Tim Ireland have been discussing looseness of such laws and the potential […]
In my cranberry/vodka. Rectifying the lack of cocktail photos in the last post. Recipe.
akatsuki ra-ra-ra 