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Safety Razor

May 19

Posted by PPC in Shaving | 2 Comments

For the last few weeks i’ve been using a Boots Double Edge Razor. Shaving with a Gillette Fusion for the last few years has worked out ok, but I wasn’t satisfied with the results.

Changing to a safety razor was an interesting and bloody experience for the first shave or two, but after reading some guides online, things became a bit more clear.

So i decided to take the plunge and buy some proper equipment:

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First shave was pretty smooth, with a few nicks, but the alum block sorted that out. There’s a huge difference between the Boots razor and the Merkur one. Hopefully after a few more shaves there will be less blood.

Chicken with crispy prosciutto and Parmesan served with prosciutto wrapped asparagus and pasta

May 19

Posted by PPC in Food | No Comments

Here’s a recipe I saw on Jamie’s Ministry of Food

What you need

  • 30g of grated Parmesan cheese
  • 2 sprigs of fresh thyme leaves removed from the stalks
  • 10 slices of Prosciutto ham
  • 2 Chicken breasts
  • 1 Lemon
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Cling film
  • 2 Cherry tomatoes
  • 10 Asparagus tips

Chicken

  1. Score the bottom of your chicken with diagonal lines.
  2. Place both pieces of chicken side by side on an even surface.
  3. Season lightly with some freshly ground pepper.
  4. Zest some lemon onto the chicken and add 15g of parmesan to each fillet.
  5. Lay 3 prosciutto slices onto each fillet, this will also work as the salt seasoning, so no need for extra salt.
  6. Place a layer of cling film of each fillet and squash them by hitting them with a frying pan. Try get them as thin as you can, about 1cm or so for each fillet.
  7. Heat a pan to a medium heat and drizzle some olive oil on.
  8. Place the fillets prosciutto side down and fry for 3 minutes, flip and fry for another 3 minutes, flip one more time and fry for 30 seconds to crisp the prosciutto.
  9. Take off the pan and serve.

Asparagus

  1. Lay 2 pieces of prosciutto down on a flat surface.
  2. Add 4 asparagus tips to each piece of prosciutto.
  3. Squeeze a cherry tomato so that all the pips come out and open it up and lay it down on the 4 tips.
  4. Place 2 more asparagus on each of the prepared pieces.
  5. Roll the prosciutto over the asparagus and keep rolling until its all together.
  6. Roll each package in one more piece of prosciutto to keep it together.
  7. Place each package on a roasting dish.
  8. Cut the lemon that was zested earlier in half and place in the middle of the 2 packages.
  9. Drizzle in olive oil, making sure you cover the tips.
  10. Cook at 200*c for 5 minutes.
  11. When cooked, squeeze the lemons over each package and serve

  1. I served this with some chunky pasta tossed in a bit of butter.

dinner