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Published Wednesday, 11 May 2016 by Piper Haywood

On the shelf

Edit 15 April 2019
I’ve managed to kill both of these plants -_- Penguin’s still kicking though.

Published Sunday, 27 March 2016 by Piper Haywood

Chipotle beans

Chipotle beans are a staple that we have at least once a week. This is a “base” recipe for how I prefer to make them, modifying from there.

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Published Monday, 21 March 2016 by Piper Haywood

#SucculentGoals

Published Thursday, 26 November 2015 by Piper Haywood

Dal tadka recipe

This is the recipe I follow for dal/dhal/dahl/daal tadka/tarka. “Tadka” is a tempered spice-and-oil topping that you add before serving to enhance the flavours of the dal. The ingredients and method are based on one of the dal tadka recipes on the excellent site Vegetable Recipes of India (see recipe). It would be best to use arhar or tuvar dal, but I use red lentils generally since they’re the easiest to find and still taste great. This serves 4 people and is excellent with jeera rice.

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Published Wednesday, 25 November 2015 by Piper Haywood

Jeera rice recipe

This recipe for jeera rice is based on a very similar recipe from one of my favourite Indian recipe sources, Vegetable Recipes of India. It includes just a few method and quantity adjustments.

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Published Sunday, 26 July 2015 by Piper Haywood

Fixed a 90s Campagnolo cycling cap

Fixed a 90s Campagnolo cycling cap recently for SB. The plastic in the brim had pretty much disintegrated, and most of the seams were giving way.

Published Saturday, 11 July 2015 by Piper Haywood

Cardboard quilt template by Alta Quick

The front and back of a six-petaled quilt template by my great-grandmother. Probably for stitching purposes (not patchwork). This and many other templates were cut from scrap cardboard, things like cereal boxes.

Published Sunday, 14 June 2015 by Piper Haywood

On Kitty Anderson’s talk about Carol Bove’s work, and on visiting the Barnes Foundation

I recently attended the talk Supporting Structures: The use of plinths and platforms in Carol Bove’s work at the Henry Moore Institute. Kitty Anderson’s talk coincided with the Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa exhibition in the Institute’s main gallery spaces.

Installation view of the Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Gallery 1. Photo via blog Books & Boots (image source)

Alta’s Flowers, Cosmos

One of many line drawings by my great-grandmother Alta Quick, probably used for embroidery.

Published Tuesday, 19 May 2015 by Piper Haywood

On California, and a book review

I grew up in California but moved away in mid-2010 to the UK for a postgrad at Central Saint Martins. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit San Francisco with my partner. It had been almost five years since I was last in the state.

I had a great time showing him some of my favorite things in San Francisco, discovering new favorites, seeing family and friends. California was as beautiful as I remember, perhaps more so. I didn’t realise just how much I had missed the environment, the fog and the wildlife. A couple of friends and I happened to visit Ocean Beach on an overcast day when thousands of bright indigo jellyfish-like creatures washed up on shore. I spent an afternoon walking the trails through Mt. Sutro with a good friend, passing California poppies, Pepper trees, serpentinite boulders, eucalyptus, mountain irises, hummingbirds, columbines, poison oak.

However, a few of the more disappointing aspects of Californian life have lingered in my mind since returning to the UK, things that I rarely noticed (or maybe more accurately, tried to ignore) when I was living in the Bay Area.

One moment from our trip sticks out in particular.