Food
Pear drop cupcakes and candied pear
I got some pear essence from The Asian Cookshop , and it smells amazing, if incredibly chemically and artificial. But that was always one of the brilliant thing…
Processing
Waves not magnets
Having been working with magnets lately I was going to try and make a toy simulation of magnet domain formation, but in the end made something that looked a bit…
Food
Creme egg doughnuts
A chocolate version of scotch eggs, creme eggs wrapped in doughnut and deep fried. I made some creme egg filled doughnuts last year, too late to get my hands on…
Photography
Oxford by night
The sun is setting on my time in Oxford , it’s almost time to leave. It’s been a pretty place to live for a while but probably high time to move on. The stone u…
Photography
Water drop photography
After seeing many amazing water drop photos all around the internet I tried out some quick attempts at droplet collision photos. Armed with a cheap speedlite, a…
Photography
Some very cold cows
The cows on Port Meadow are incredibly docile, apparently they’re pretty bored of people coming out early on a frosty morning and taking photos of them eating, …
Photography
Port Meadow frosty mornings
It’s pretty nice living a few minutes walk from Port Meadow, especially as winter sets in, leaving icy fields, a cloud that clings to the damp grass and fog tha…
Food
Curated food blog search
A while back I made a custom search engine for searching the many food blogs to which I subscribe on Google Reader. It turns out to be pretty useful when you’re…
Food
White chocolate and raspberry blondies
It seems strange to think that at some point there was a slim window of good enough weather, during the driving rain that was last summer, to go raspberry picki…
Food
Red velvet cupcakes with rum syrup
Scaling things down from The Modern Cafe is a bit tricky, definitely meant for professionals that book. These red velvet cupcakes were a little dense, and defin…
Food
Peanut butter scones
Scones are simple things, just some flour, fat, liquid and some chemicals to make them light and fluffy. Being so simple they’re pretty easy things to understan…
Food
Trying food macrophotography
Macro photography is cool, everything small looks better big. I thought the same would be true for food , but surprisingly things often seem to look a bit more …