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Less archives and heritage chat, and more random musings and queer nonsense.
Less archives and heritage chat, and more random musings and queer nonsense.
Doctor Who, ordered chronologically by the first place they travel to is an amazing thing that I've thought of many times, and I'm so glad that someone else did the research.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Doctor Who, ordered chronologically by the first place they travel to is an amazing thing that I've thought of many times, and I'm so glad that someone else did the research.
And here it is, in all its glory.
I'm not going to lie, it wasn't the best meal I've ever had, and the fact that there was a crescendo of snap, crackle, & pop was quite disconcerting.
But also, I've cooked far, FAR, worse things in my time. I probably wouldn't serve with rice again, but in a pinch?
I'm not going to lie, it wasn't the best meal I've ever had, and the fact that there was a crescendo of snap, crackle, & pop was quite disconcerting.
But also, I've cooked far, FAR, worse things in my time. I probably wouldn't serve with rice again, but in a pinch?
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
And here it is, in all its glory.
I'm not going to lie, it wasn't the best meal I've ever had, and the fact that there was a crescendo of snap, crackle, & pop was quite disconcerting.
But also, I've cooked far, FAR, worse things in my time. I probably wouldn't serve with rice again, but in a pinch?
I'm not going to lie, it wasn't the best meal I've ever had, and the fact that there was a crescendo of snap, crackle, & pop was quite disconcerting.
But also, I've cooked far, FAR, worse things in my time. I probably wouldn't serve with rice again, but in a pinch?
The other ingredients in the sauce were fairly straightforward. Stock, onions, tomatoes, apples, sultanas, sugar, vinegar.
Perfectly reasonable curry ingredients, right?
Fry the veg, add everything else and simmer for 20 minutes, then thicken with a wheat flour slurry at the end.
Yum.
Perfectly reasonable curry ingredients, right?
Fry the veg, add everything else and simmer for 20 minutes, then thicken with a wheat flour slurry at the end.
Yum.
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The other ingredients in the sauce were fairly straightforward. Stock, onions, tomatoes, apples, sultanas, sugar, vinegar.
Perfectly reasonable curry ingredients, right?
Fry the veg, add everything else and simmer for 20 minutes, then thicken with a wheat flour slurry at the end.
Yum.
Perfectly reasonable curry ingredients, right?
Fry the veg, add everything else and simmer for 20 minutes, then thicken with a wheat flour slurry at the end.
Yum.
Now for true verisimilitude, I didn't really want to use a modern curry powder, so I found a recipe, also from the 1930s and made it from scratch. It was 48% turmeric by volume, and also included coriander, ground ginger, black pepper, cayenne, cardamom, caraway, and ground cloves.
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Now for true verisimilitude, I didn't really want to use a modern curry powder, so I found a recipe, also from the 1930s and made it from scratch. It was 48% turmeric by volume, and also included coriander, ground ginger, black pepper, cayenne, cardamom, caraway, and ground cloves.
I tweaked the recipe very slightly, as a vegetarian I wasn't too enthused by step 1, which was "Fry the curry powder in beef dripping". I used TREX (highly hydrogenated vegetable oil) instead, and replaced the "2lbs of pre cooked meat" with baked tofu. In deference to the era, I did not marinate it.
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I tweaked the recipe very slightly, as a vegetarian I wasn't too enthused by step 1, which was "Fry the curry powder in beef dripping". I used TREX (highly hydrogenated vegetable oil) instead, and replaced the "2lbs of pre cooked meat" with baked tofu. In deference to the era, I did not marinate it.
Had a great evening yesterday cooking a somewhat sedated l dated meal from 1936:
Curry with Rice.
I stumbled across this book at work a few months ago, and after being initially quite dismissive of it, morbid curiosity won out. I found a copy online, and obviously decidedly I had to try it.
Curry with Rice.
I stumbled across this book at work a few months ago, and after being initially quite dismissive of it, morbid curiosity won out. I found a copy online, and obviously decidedly I had to try it.
August 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Had a great evening yesterday cooking a somewhat sedated l dated meal from 1936:
Curry with Rice.
I stumbled across this book at work a few months ago, and after being initially quite dismissive of it, morbid curiosity won out. I found a copy online, and obviously decidedly I had to try it.
Curry with Rice.
I stumbled across this book at work a few months ago, and after being initially quite dismissive of it, morbid curiosity won out. I found a copy online, and obviously decidedly I had to try it.
This isn't in the cathedral, but this is surely the fanciest Pizza Express ever?
August 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This isn't in the cathedral, but this is surely the fanciest Pizza Express ever?
Also, who knew that Katherine of Aragon was buried at Peterborough cathedral?
August 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Also, who knew that Katherine of Aragon was buried at Peterborough cathedral?
Some nice floors and ceilings though.
August 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Some nice floors and ceilings though.
Well this is the most surreal 6m² inside an English cathedral I could possibly have imagined...
August 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Well this is the most surreal 6m² inside an English cathedral I could possibly have imagined...
Went for a long walk in nature yesterday, and then spent approx 14 hours across the rest of the weekend doing a Discworld jigsaw (because I have a brand to maintain, goddamn it)
August 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Went for a long walk in nature yesterday, and then spent approx 14 hours across the rest of the weekend doing a Discworld jigsaw (because I have a brand to maintain, goddamn it)
With apologies to Randall Munroe.
July 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
With apologies to Randall Munroe.
Another banger from the same county council that brought you such hits as "Keeping Section 28 until 2010".
July 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Another banger from the same county council that brought you such hits as "Keeping Section 28 until 2010".
Continuing on a theme, I couldn't figure out these ones, because while it'd be fair today, it felt too early to be leaning into the "People Hate our Product" idea.
But they're from 1941, so it's referencing rationing and saying that you need to control yourself and take less than you want.
But they're from 1941, so it's referencing rationing and saying that you need to control yourself and take less than you want.
July 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Continuing on a theme, I couldn't figure out these ones, because while it'd be fair today, it felt too early to be leaning into the "People Hate our Product" idea.
But they're from 1941, so it's referencing rationing and saying that you need to control yourself and take less than you want.
But they're from 1941, so it's referencing rationing and saying that you need to control yourself and take less than you want.
I wonder why they stopped using that specific tagline?
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I wonder why they stopped using that specific tagline?
I will never not be tickled by the fact that my Finasteride (ie, Testosterone blocker, which is notably NOT a hormone in and of itself) comes with a little E printed on the tablet.
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I will never not be tickled by the fact that my Finasteride (ie, Testosterone blocker, which is notably NOT a hormone in and of itself) comes with a little E printed on the tablet.
A pair of shelving trolleys?//Perry the pair of shelving trolleys???
June 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A pair of shelving trolleys?//Perry the pair of shelving trolleys???
You know what, I think I'd rather go without.
June 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
You know what, I think I'd rather go without.
if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you...
June 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you...
First Love by @emmaleemoss.bsky.social. Full of absolutely perfect songs, and while it's the soundtrack to a specific time in my life, it has still been there for me when I've needed it ever since.
I can't believe we're closer to the 20th Anniversary now than we are to the 10th show at King Tuts.
I can't believe we're closer to the 20th Anniversary now than we are to the 10th show at King Tuts.
June 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
First Love by @emmaleemoss.bsky.social. Full of absolutely perfect songs, and while it's the soundtrack to a specific time in my life, it has still been there for me when I've needed it ever since.
I can't believe we're closer to the 20th Anniversary now than we are to the 10th show at King Tuts.
I can't believe we're closer to the 20th Anniversary now than we are to the 10th show at King Tuts.
And most importantly, Girlguiding HQ
June 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And most importantly, Girlguiding HQ
