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  • Careless Talk. It’s not what I wanted.

    Careless Talk. It’s not what I wanted.

    Here’s a strange thing. I have a manuscript, some 40,000 words, that I was working on until early last year. It started out as rather a nice short story – very sinister, very nasty. Due to an approaching shitstorm in my life, it started to...

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  • Vegetable Stock

    Vegetable Stock

    Ingredients 3 tomatoes (diced) 1 stick celery (diced) 8-10 button mushrooms 1 tbsp black peppercorns 3 garlic cloves, crushed but whole 1 bulb of fennel (diced) 1/2 an onion (diced) 1/2 a leek (diced) 1 carrot (diced) 4 fresh parsley stalks (roughly chopped) 1 tbsp...

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  • Haiku

    Haiku

    Sleeping so soundly Softly smiling, holding tight Your arms around me.

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  • Joarron

    Joarron

    Updated and Edited to add extra yum. Ok, so first off, this recipe is a bit of an invention. We made up the recipe as we went along and through a bizarre twist of fate produced something truly wonderful. Unfortunately, I didn’t write down what...

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  • Updated: Chicken Sneaka Masala part 3: The Masala

    Updated: Chicken Sneaka Masala part 3: The Masala

    I’ll start out by offering sincerest apologies to anyone reading this who may consider Indian food their natural diet. I’ve taken certain liberties here to produce something that appeals to my western palate while, I hope, staying faithful to the Indian techniques normally used for...

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  • Chicken Sneaka Masala part 2: Sneaking

    Chicken Sneaka Masala part 2: Sneaking

    This bit is easy. It’s just tikkafying the marinaded chicken. Only reason I’m doing a post about it is to reveal the Secret Incantation of the Sacrificial Potato. You’re going to skewer your chicken and need something to rest the skewers on so it’s suspended...

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  • Chicken Sneaka Masala part 1: Marinade

    Chicken Sneaka Masala part 1: Marinade

    This is a pretty standard ‘tikka’ style marinade. There’s nothing clever about it and it’s been nicked wholesale from just about every Indian cookery book I’ve ever seen. It is, however, going to give a bit of flavour for my soon-to-be-produced Sneaka Masala, so I’m...

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  • Twelve

    Twelve

    Here, at the end of everything, the sun never sets. The ocean meets the land with perpetual violence. Her constant assault increases her territory, inch by inch, century by century. Etude stood on the very brink of the world, two hundred feet above the raging...

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  • Chicken Sneakaloo

    Chicken Sneakaloo

    So we invented a curry last night. Couldn’t decide what to make so in the end we decided to make it up as we went along. And it turned out pretty good too. It’s fairly fiery, with lots of sour onion flavour but very nomworthy....

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  • Sticky Bits

    Sticky Bits

    There’s nothing more alarming than walking down the street minding ones own business only to find oneself caught in the middle of a hole-storm. I huddled in the doorway of a dingy looking greengrocer and shivered as millions of tiny holes hurtled earthward, making little...

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