Geek and Sundry is my tv!

Hello dearest readers,

There may be two posts this week as I have the means for it.

There will also be a new Clog on my youtube channel today, so watch out.

But for now I want to tell you why geek and sundry (http://www.youtube.com/user/geekandsundry) is an amazing youtube channel that you must watch.

So they have 7 shows along with various Tuesday night hang outs which go from guys playing old romancey type games to girls discussing romance and erotica.

I love the shows my favourite being a show based on an online gulid, it based a lot on WoW and those who play a lot of online games will recognise much of yourself in the characers. There are now 6 series and they are all amazing and get better and better. It's written by Felicia Day and as you know I'm a fan.

You can watch season one here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSC2TMwyqzg
They also have run throughs of the last 5 series as 6 is still airing.

My other favourite is Table Top. Now I have been a gamer all my life, but before I started my WoW escapades and my Xbox addiction I played table top games. I remember many a Christmas, Easter or random Friday night playing an epic game called Talisman. It's kinda like dungeons and dragons but a board game that requires less roleplay...unless you're me and always get way into it.

Now Table Top on Geek and Sundry is hosted by Wil Wheaton (another reason I like it, I'm a massive fan, safe to say I may have had a Wesley crush when I was younger).

Every episode Wil talks us through an amazing game and then invites his friends over to play it. By friends I'm talking Rod Roddenberry, Amber Benson, Steve Jackson, Felicia Day and CEO of Blizzard and thats a tiny selection.

It is massive fun watching people I love on tv and gaming all get competitive while playing the best games such as Munchkin, (which I have blogged about here; http://cozibizzle.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/as-promised/) Gloom (http://cozibizzle.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/the-sky-is-gray-the-tea-is-cold/) along with many others like Settlers of Catan, Fluxx, Zombie Dice and more. I do own most of these lol.Here's the link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj6C1CBXPvc&list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C&index=1

There are other shows like Written by a kid which is stories that a kid tell and get made into little films, Space Janitors is a new show which you kinda get the jist from in the title. There's Dark Horse Comics animated comics, watch them and then there's Sword and Laser, a fantasy and adventure type book club;

You can watch the shows on the geek and sundry youtube page which I linked above. Also they have a website with forums, ventrilo chat and live chat where all the links to the shows are along with links to get cool clothes and stuff based on the channel; http://geekandsundry.com/

So that is my weekly tv, others watch strictly and stuff, I watch fun videos that are basically my life in ten minutes.

Hope you are now more educated, at least about me and my craziness.

Love to all darlings, seasons greetings.
xxx

I'm making Biltong

Hi dearest darlings,

I am back. Had a few issues, blah blah winge winge.

But I am here and this is a little tutorial for people who may or may not want to make their own biltong. Now for those  of you who do not know biltong is a snack made of hung and dried beef strips popular in Africa and South Africa. My Mum was born and partly raised in Zambia which is as south of Africa as you can get without being in South Africa. She used to make it out there, they tend to just hang beef in sheds out there but here the air is too damp and it would just mould.

So in this fabulous country we use a box designed to make biltong in, it looks like this;

 It's basically a box with polls across it. There are small holes in the lid and then a fan and lightbulb that can be seen there to plug in. The fan and light are needed for heat and air flow as the beef needs t dry out.

You then have spices that you use to flavour the meet;

And then you need hooks to hang the meat on;

The way you make it is, a bit of vinegar and the spices rubbed into the meat and left to marinate for at least 4 hours, we usually do it over night.

Then when that's done, hook through the top of the strip and hang it. It shouldn't touch the bottom and the pieces should be spaced apart so they don't touch.

It's then a case of waiting. Hang it in the box, turn the fan and light on and leave. Small thin strips take about 36 hours but the big strips take between 3 days and 5 days to fully dry out.

 Depending on taste you can eat it when ever as beef is edible 'rare', we tend to eat it mostly dry so there may be a bit of pink/red on the very inside but it's mostly dry and chewy.

I planned on taking a picture of it completely done but it didn't last that long and was consumed. So yea, that's making biltong.

 I would blog more about my cooking but my macaroons aren't very good at the moment and most things are common so if I do another random type food thing I will definitely blog it.

I will blog again soon providing that Dragon age and world of Warcraft don't eat up my time. There are new clog (my video blog) episodes up. There are more to follow, one on Castle and one on Zombie stuff.

Promise I will try to update more often but not doing anything means I rarely have interesting things to tell you.

Goodbye for now my loves.
xxx