Using GStreamer and PulseAudio to direct computer audio output to a Squeezebox
I’ve been a big fan of the Squeezebox system from long before Logitech purchased SlimDevices who originally made the device. I keep my music collection in FLAC format on my computer and can easily...
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Sausage rolls
The typical sausage roll is made from puff pastry, wrapped around sausage meat, brushed with egg and baked. I simply cannot stand these! When I think sausage roll, I think some nice bread rolled around...
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New bread knife
I have recently acquired a new bread knife from Yaxell, a Ran knife, made from 69 layers of Damascus steel. It is a thing of beauty and it carves bread like a wooden knife cuts through soft butter,...
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My new cool baby
We have recently acquired an ice machine with a built-in compressor, and we are enjoying every little bit of ice cream it’s churning out. One of the huge limiting factors of being allergic to dairy...
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Garlic-chili dutch oven bread
This is very much an afternoon/dinner/evening bread with its strong notes of garlic and chili. Works wonderfully with stews and fish. Since it is winter time and the cold north is, well, cold, the...
View ArticleMercurial 2.3 sprint
Just finished the Mercurial 2.3 developer sprint on behalf of the company I work for, Edlund A/S. It was really nice to meet a lot of the familiar faces and the new ones from Facebook and Wolfram...
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Sous vide eggs
Being busy with real life tends to not only kill the time that one has for maintaining an online presence, but also for doing imaginative things that are worth writing about, so the past year has...
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Sous vide chili oil
Flavoured oils come in many shapes and tastes: basil, mint, chili, garlic, chili-garlic, ginger… The imagination seems to be the limit, but the store bought ones seem a bit, well, flat, oftentimes, and...
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Sous vide duck leg with home made linguine and spring vegetables
One of the joys with having a sous vide setup at home is that you get to cook great tasting dishes with a minimum of fuss. Just vacuum seal the food, leave it at the set temperature for some time,...
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Heston Blumenthal’s triple-cooked chips
I have added another item to my list of kitchen utensils, the quintessential deep fryer, the pinnacle of fast, fatty food, that leaves you stuffed too early and regretting you ever went for fast food....
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