How to: Make your own soy milk

Continuing in yesterday’s culinary vein, this morning I made soy milk.
Soy milk isn’t all that expensive or anything, but making your own is almost unbelievably cheap.  All you need is about 30 cents worth of soy beans, a blender or food processor, a kettle, and 45 minutes to spare:

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At last, something I cooked was alright

After a weekend of baking disasters (a loaf of bread whose yeast died, turning it into glue, and the most disgusting muffins I’ve ever tasted), I was in need of a culinary ego boost.  So I made some crispbread.
I have to confess that I really, really like Ryvita.  I know, it’s the nerdiest food ever, [...]

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The economics of knitting

I haven’t posted for a day or two because I have ACTUALLY been busy.  Tuesday I taught almost all of my students in one afternoon/evening, because yesterday I sat my friend Jen Wardle’s art show.  Which I will be doing tomorrow, and for part of next week.
Sitting an art show means sitting in the gallery [...]

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Twitter: An actually helpful writing tool.

If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I treat it more like an opportunity for random weirdness and very short-form poetry than a chance to tell the world what I ate for dinner.  All in good fun.  But just now it occured to me that Twitter is actually teaching me to write [...]

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Today’s confession of stupidity

OK, so let me rewind. When Ben and I first moved into this place (around 3 years ago), we decided to start using a mini-fridge instead of the full-sized one that was provided.  This was for two reasons: a) to save energy, b) to reduce food wastage.  I have a definite tendency to buy stuff, [...]

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Magic bullets

I was testing some mics the other day by singing the same passage of “Caro nome” into them, and listening back to the recordings of each mic I noticed a little bump in one descending scale passage.  It happens in the place where “somewhat high” turns into “high medium”, and its effect is to throw [...]

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Blogservations

Tags which increase blog traffic:
porn, food, torture, cute puppy video, knit men’s socks, memes
Tags which are neutral to blog traffic:
basset hound, plagiarism, music, computer
Tags which actively decrease blog traffic:
aww, criticism, jesus, lazy, meta, opera
Market research is *EVERYTHING*.

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 14: What Kay would do for money.

So it’ll be summer soon, and a good number of my students will be off doing fun, self-improving things that I can’t afford to do.  The economic downturn has thrown a bit of a spanner into my financial planning for this year, so I’m looking to pick up a bit of extra money.  I had [...]

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Hound operation manual

We’re going away for the weekend towards the end of the month – without the dogs.  One of my friends is going to stay in our place to look after them, so I’ve written her a little manual on their habits and routine.  Mostly it’s basic information about feeding and walking and preventing aggression, and [...]

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How To: Knit men’s socks

I have been busy.  Not just with my usual round of exciting and glamourous activities, but with making socks and hats and things for Streetknit.  Here is the men’s sock pattern I created from this excellent pattern.  I have used it to make many socks, including the pair pictured here.  If you don’t like using [...]

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