Rufus Blooter

Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method

30 December 2009

Confit Nutter

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Well, what am I supposed to do with all that goose fat lying around? In addition to a jar of confit of 4 goose legs, I have another jar of a...
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29 December 2009

Goose Fat

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Many people wrongly think animal fat is 100% saturated fat. Regardless of whether you think saturated fats are "bad" or mononsatur...
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27 December 2009

Can Travelling Get Any Worse?

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A few months ago, my youngest and I were stuck on an unmoving Eurostar train for a couple hours. They turned the air and power off. Fortunat...
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Eurostar Should Consider Steam

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"If any of the train operators want to modernise their services by using steam trains, I would be happy to give them a quote."
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26 December 2009

Boxing Day Dinner

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The confited goose legs are happily sitting in a jar of gorgeous golden goose fat. Yesterday no one was keen for a big dinner so we saved th...
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23 December 2009

This Year's Geese

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Picked up the geese from the butcher today, and started the prep. The year-old confit the other day was delicious, but I don't think thi...
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22 December 2009

Year Old Leftovers, Never Frozen

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Just tried some goose leg confit I'd made almost exactly a year ago. Normally it would've been eaten much sooner, but I forgot about...
21 December 2009

Bad Science 2009

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A nice wrapup of the year in bad science from Ben Goldacre.
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20 December 2009

Great Urban Run

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Went for a last long run of the year (about 22km) yesterday through (of course) East London. Went up through Homerton and Lower Clapton, eas...

How To Play Chess With Kids

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Simple: handicap yourself by removing some of your pieces at the start of the game. Then you get to play all-out. Adjust based on results. F...
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17 December 2009

Perpetual Performance Art

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So a company in Dublin that appears to be headed up by Deco Cuffe from The Commitments is demonstrating a perpetual motion machine . I will ...
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Police Crackdown on London Photographers

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Kind of like the dreaded "africanized" bees that have been threatening to swarm homicidally over the US any decade now, I'm co...
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