Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Life Stuff’ Category
Edible Gobos: quite possibly as Tasty as Edible Underwear
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Allegedly. I’ll come to that in a minute. Most spam is annoying but once in a while the bots assemble two random concepts that make a slightly surreal or scary combination. Once in a while those are so out there and look so like real messages that they make it past the spam filters. Here’s […]
Lasagne
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009The world (and the world wide web) probably doesn’t need another lasagne recipe but when did that ever stop me 🙂 This is my favourite lasagne recipe its an ideal dish to serve a gaming group after a hard day of gaming. Most of the preparation can be done before the game so its just […]
Big Bag of Herbs and Spice
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Since my vague plan to finally go to Dragonmeet failed (again) this year I made a somewhat easier journey to Mattas in Liverpool to restock my herb and spice cupboard. I’ve a big bag full of herbs and spice sitting in my kitchen waiting to be put away including… Basil Chilli Powder Chinese Five Spice […]
Il Forno and The Informant
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Oh dear looks like I need to get my grumpy hat out for both Il Forno and The Informant… Went to Il Forno on Duke Street in Liverpool for dinner before going to see the early evening showing of The Informant at FACT. Things started well with quick service and an excellent swordfish tart starter […]
Fantastic Mr Fox
Friday, November 20th, 2009Fanstastic Mr Fox is probably my favourite Roald Dahl children’s story. So today I decided I’d go and see it at the Odeon in Liverpool 1 and crossed my fingers they’d not treated the source material as a slum clearance job it like Disney did with Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Given the source materials brevity it’s […]
Lamb Chops with Peppers
Sunday, November 8th, 2009A recipe I’ve cooked since I was at University and a personal favourite for when the cold weather sets in. Serves 4. Serve with rice. Ingredients 8 Lamb Chops 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil 2 Onions 2 cloves of garlic chopped 400g Tin of Chopped Tomatoes 2 Green Peppers 1 Red Pepper 2 tsp Crushed Coriander […]
HMS Illustrious in Liverpool
Saturday, October 24th, 2009Went down for a quick look at HMS Illustrious docked in Liverpool today which turned into several hours of watching the helicopter display, buildings, canal, ships on the river and other stuff.
Where Did All the Good Spam Go?
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009The hardest thing I find about writing (after the actual slog of the writing part) is naming characters. It can become a real drag to find the right name and it makes the slog so much harder. So a couple of years ago I started using names pulled randomly from the names of senders on […]
Vue 8 On the Way
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009I’ve repeated the official press release over on my Vue News Blog and I’ve done a couple of quick tweets. This may not be much longer but I’m really looking forward to Vue 8. Scene Context Sculpting and 3D Terrain Sculpting sounds really cool and useful. I know some cynics will say this isn’t a […]
Chocolate Spice Cake
Monday, September 28th, 2009I baked this for a friend’s birthday years ago. The other day they asked me for the recipe so here it is. Ingredients 200g Margarine 400g Caster Sugar 100g Plain Chocolate 4 Eggs (size 3) separated 2 x 2.5ml spoon Cinnamon 2 x 2.5ml spoon Mixed Spice 350g Self Raising Flour 240ml Milk 50g Cut […]