Using A Braiding Board

I made a braiding board out of a piece of coconut shell (they can also be made from ordinary wood, or even just stiff card).

In this article, I'll demonstrate how it can be used to produce a variety of decorative and useful braided cords and ribbons.

Bavarian Apple Cake

Here's a recipe for a scrumptious apple dessert that can't make up its mind whether it's a pie, cake or crumble.

Mediterranean Wild Food - Prickly Pears

Easter 2009 - continuing my wild food foraging, away from home, I found some prickly pears...

Latest Lost Glove

2010/02/25 - Dark brown stitched leather - RH - Guildhall Square, Portsmouth

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Welcome to Atomic Shrimp

I'm aiming to present a diverse range of content on this site - including interesting woodworking, electronic, art and craft projects, found objects, recipes and other food-related stuff (particularly food that can be had for free), also graphics, animation, video and audio.

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Project Samwise - Grocery Gardening

This year, 2010, I'm going to be growing vegetables in a small plot in my garden, but I'm going to do this without visiting the garden centre or hardware store for seeds - I'll be starting using nothing more than seeds and vegetables from my kitchen.

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Project Ebenezer- Christmas Dinner For Free

Project Horseshoe (an empirical search for luck) can't really be described as a massive success - so I'm going to try something else - funding next year's Christmas dinner for free.

Hearty Bean Bake

This hearty bean bake is just perfect as a warming meal after coming in from the cold.

It's based on a substantial soup - it needs planning ahead and making over the course of a couple of days, but the end result is well worth it.

King Alfred's Pudding

King Alfred burned the cakes - it's probably just a legend, but let's not allow facts to ruin a good story...

So When I accidentally (slightly) burned some cakes, I decided to use them to create this recipe

Fruity Oaty Bar (Not Mandatory)

This idea grew out of a previous experiment to make energy bars - but this time, I wanted to try making them with white chocolate so as to show off the fruit.

Also, I've long wanted to make something I could label 'Fruity Oaty Bar'.

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