Work is consuming me way too much, I have not enough Oli days…
Chat GPT needs to step in and replace me.
Happy Valentine!
I am always looking for these measures when making rice in the Slow cooker !
I love these when we go to a tapas restaurant, so I had to have a go myself.
It is fairly easy to do. Essentially, it is a thick bechamel with Serano cut in small cubes rolled into breadcrumbs and deep fried.
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I am trying a different recipe for these small brioche buns. This is work in progress.
See my other recipes as well.
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I am repairing a mouse wheel for a friend.
It was a bit tricky because of the tiny sizes involved. I designed it in Fuion360, then used my new 3D Printer using supports for the overhangs.
It was printed using Carbon Fiber infused PLA. I am unsure if it will last, but now that I have the design, I can re-print it quickly.
I got myself an updated 3D Printer.
One of the first projects was to repair a Marketing stand for my business. The new printer is very nice with good first-layer adhesion and fast speed. It supports almost any type of filament and has a multi-colour automatic switching device.
I am delighted with it, and my love of 3D printing has a renewed lease of life.
Although the technology has not changed too much, the implementation of it is a lot better. For example, the initial purging of the nozzle, the online and App capabilities, the speed, the adhesion of the first layer, the software upgrades and the options available for printing.
I made some End Caps for the aluminium clip, which would open up without End Cap. I used fursion360 as usual and started from a photo of the edge and then modelled the part iteratively until it would have a good fit. I then used the mirror feature of fusion360 to generate the other side end-cap. I printed the parts using a carbon fiber-infused PLA filament.
The printer is a BambuLab X1 Carbon with the AMS.
As I rekindled with my 3D printing, I made some inventory of my old filament and started making sure that the filament I already owned was of good quality. In particular, the filament must be “dry” (as it tends to absorb the ambient humidity).
I realised I already had 30 filaments of various colours and other types.
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Original post was 8th November 2020
I have made this recipe a few times and need to make a blog post for easy future access.
No Photos yet of mine but trust me it is delicious.
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Serve with roasted potatoes and roasted sweet potatoes.
This is a great dish to uplift the spirit in Confinement or early winter…
Recently it was my birthday. Now 56, a «non-real number » birthday …had many messages from my friends. Current ones and very old ones. It made me very happy and made the day a lot more bearable.
I won’t talk about my ever-approaching terminal day as somebody famous once said :
Parler de la mort est un manque de savoir vivre.
It is a great play on words that I cannot translate properly to convey the double meaning of savoir vivre. The pure translation would be “knowing how to live”, but in French, it also has the meaning of knowledge of the world and the ways or usages of polite society.
Yes, one day, like everyone else, I will die, but all the other days, I will live !…
Thank you to all my friends.
Very recently, I tried to bleed the front brakes on my bike and made a complete mess out of it. Breaking the bleed valve on the handle.
Below is how to do it for the next time!
Prepare 2 syringes and the yellow bricks.
Remove the brake pads and replace them with yellow bricks to ensure that the brake cylinders are pushed in on both sides evenly.
Remove the brake calliper from the frame, as it will be easier to do the work.
Remove the bleed screw at the calliper and install the syringe with 30ml of blue oil. Try to push the air out of the syringe before connecting. Overall, we are trying to remove any bubbles in the overall system and also replace as much as possible of the oil in the system with new oil.
Adjust the handle so that the bleed port is horizontal. This might require other parts of the handlebar equipment to be moved as well.
Open the bleed port on the handle carefully, as it is made of plastic and will brake if too tight. (0.5Nm max).
Install the top string into the bleed port. No need for adapters. Just push in firmly. This syringe has no plunger.
Use the Caliper side syringe to push and pull the oil through the system to remove all the bubbles. Do it several times to ensure all the little bubbles are out. Tap the line with a tool to dislodge any bubbles that might be in the line.
Remove the calliper syringe. This is best done with the calliper at a similar height to the handle so that there is not too much flow of oil. Close the port.
Do the same with the handle syringe and close the port. Be careful with the bleed screw.
Clean everything with the brake cleaner and re-assemble.
I love the beauty of the sea and how free and also fragile it makes me feel. Very similar to a vertical drop in a large powder field.
At last, I have used my old Sherline Mill with the new Masso controller. This is part of a general upgrade of my tools in my workshop.
I started the upgrade process by replacing the old CO2 laser with a new 60W (just the emitter) and used the opportunity to upgrade the controller to a RUIDA, which now accepts a more modern software controller called Lighburn. I also bought a long overdue Honeycomb plate to prevent back burns on my cuts and finally improved the lighting in the cutting chamber with a new LED light. Not cheap overall, but I had not updated this tool for 10 years or more. The rest of the hardware is still in perfect condition.
While waiting for parts, I tried to use my CNC Mill and realised that it could do with an upgrade as well so I decided to splash out on a new Masso controller. I went for the touch version and am very pleased with it so far.
The first project was to cut a pocket hole into a box I made with the laser a few years ago. I had “forgotten” in my design, that there would be a razor blade. It has been an annoyance for years. I could have redone the whole Laser cut wood bit but I decided I could try to use this as an opportunity for a first CNC project for my new controller.
I used Fusion360 to create the tool paths and downloaded them into the controller. I have recently installed limit switches on my CNC mill, and I should have done this many years ago. It completely transforms the use of the controller and the precision of the milling. I will probably upgrade the end switches as currently they are only installed with double-sided tape!
The following drawings/pictures have all been created by an artificial intelligence software called midjourney. You provide a TEXT entry and the computer creates the image.
For example here is what I used:
It is fun and also scary…
I am making some Limoncello after our ski trip at Anne and Louis-Carl in Montgenevre, close to Turin. Anne had made some very nice Limoncello and I asked for the recipe, which she kindly shared.
The recipe is very easy, essentially leave some lemon peels in alcohol for a few weeks and then dilute them with sugar syrup.
However, if you do a bit or research online most “British” recipes recommend using a simple basic Vodka as the alcohol (40% proof). In comparison, the traditional Italian recipe uses a lot stronger grain alcohol at 70% or even 90% proof. I found a source of Grain alcohol in the UK and am in the process of making some homemade Limoncello. The cost of the alcohol is ridiculous compared to what I would have to pay in France or Italy for the same product but I did not want to compromise on my first batch…
I will probably buy some “fruit alcohol” in bulk next time I visit France. I am suspicious that the 70% proof alcohol is unavailable in most supermarkets because of the health risk for anybody to drink it pure and suffers an ethylic coma.
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58 minutes to do 6.5 miles in central London…this commute is doing my head in…
I made some Duck rillettes!
Another recipe that is very easy to do but requires a little bit of time.
I am keen on learning recipes of the past, which have now become for most people something that you can only purchase from the supermarket when it is very easy to do at home and is a lot nicer…
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Et voila! Eat on toasted bread with some cornichons or pickled shallots.
