Friday 30 January 2015

Rude Food ... sweet potato toffee

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cut sweet potatoes into chips 

and roast with smoked paprika and plenty of rapeseed oil

for about two hours, 

stir them around from time to time to stop them drying 

then maybe add some more oil 

and go on cooking until they are mushy 

trying not to burn them 








Wednesday 28 January 2015

Hops 3


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Hops 2

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Mead (/ˈmiːd/; archaic and dialectal "medd"; from Old English "meodu") is an alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water, and in adulterated form with various fruits, spices, grains or hops.(Hops act as a preservative and produce a bitter, beer-like flavor.) The alcoholic content of mead may range from about 8% ABV to more than 20%. The defining characteristic of mead is that the majority of the beverage's fermentable sugar is derived from honey. It may be still, carbonated, or naturally sparkling; and it may be dry, semi-sweet, or sweet.

Mead is known from many sources of ancient history throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. "It can be regarded as the ancestor of all fermented drinks," Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat has speculated, "antedating the cultivation of the soil."Hornsey considers archaeological evidence of it ambiguous;[9] however, McGovern and other archaeological chemists consider the presence of beeswax markers and gluconic acid, in the presence of other substances known to ferment, to be reasonably conclusive evidence of the use of honey in ancient fermented beverages.

Claude Lévi-Strauss makes a case for the invention of mead as a marker of the passage "from nature to culture." Mead has played an important role in the beliefs and mythology of some peoples. One such example is the Mead of Poetry, a mead of Norse mythology crafted from the blood of the wise being Kvasir which turns the drinker into a poet or scholar.

The terms "mead" and "honey-wine" are often used synonymously. Honey-wine is differentiated from mead in some cultures. Hungarians hold that while mead is made of honey, water and beer-yeast (barm), honey-wine is watered honey fermented by recrement of grapes (or other fruits)





Hops 1

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sounds and videos

http://videobam.com/lZFeS


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Friday 16 January 2015

sounds ... pidgeons

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1jMDQIuZdWX

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0B8GudOZdXh







Friday 2 January 2015

cyber children : baby darlek


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and she has a baby moon too ... 










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she seems to have a baby darlek 

but who is the father ? 

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baby spaceman