As I drove my four year old 2006 Lexus IS250 Sports Luxury into the Lexus of Brighton delivery area this afternoon, the odometer reached 6300 kms exactly.
My new car was awaiting me in the showroom.

That’s me with Bernard (accent on the second syllable, please, as he’s originally from France) in front of the new are. [...]

Here’s a photo taken on 3rd August 2006 at my Lexus dealer’s showroom when I took delivery of my IS250 Sports Luxury with more amazing features than I could poke a stick at (as the saying goes).  And as it turned out, than I could use.  However in 2006, it was the only IS250 model [...]

This evening I cooked a 926gm piece of Virginia beef in my Kuhn Rikon frypan pressure cooker on top of the gas stove.  This is the first time since last October that I’ve cooked beef in the pressure cooker on my gas stove-top.  I’ve been using the Breville Ikon Induction Cooker during the past seven [...]

On Wednesday (two days ago) it was seven months since I bought my portable Breville Ikon Induction Cooker (model BC200). Since the day I bought it the Breville has sat on a cutting board on top of my gas stove-top and I have used it exclusively for stove-top cooking for those seven months. [...]

This post was originally on my website home page, but I’ve now moved it here as a continuation of the induction hob posts.
This video will show you why induction cooking impresses me, and is still on the wish list for my kitchen. The second half of the video shows a new item for my kitchen [...]

The iPad has now been in the news for a couple of days, so it’s time I made a few observations. My first sight of it was when I got an email from Apple  introducing the iPad.  The following image was at the top of the email, and it gave me concerns about the [...]

This post is not a review of a beer. The photo shows what was left of a small bottle of ale after I poured 250ml (1 cup) of Amber Ale into my Kuhn Rikon 2 litre pressure cooker frypan to cook an 818gm (1.8 pound) piece of low fat beef to well done, in [...]

Today, for Christmas Day, I went to Matthew and Joy’s place for lunch with their family and friends. At the lunch Matthew gave me the present he’d intended to give me for my birthday last month, but for one reason or another (mainly distance) he wasn’t able to hand it to me until [...]

Things are changing in my life.
For example, here’s a photo of what I had for lunch today.

It’s a salad with ham, salad leaves, tomato, cucumber and a peppery carrot salad (from the recipe in Suzanne Gibbs in The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book).  However, in this case the carrots were cooked on the Breville Induction cooker [...]

In this post I’m going to give an update on my experiences so far with the Breville BIC200 Induction Cooker.  It’s a small, light, portable induction hob that can be plugged into any power point, as it only draws power from 120w to 2100w.  The best place for it, of course, is in the kitchen; [...]