Author: Villa Tempest

  • 2019 Year Of The Pig

    We at Villa Tempest would like to wish you, one and all, a very prosperous Year of The Pig.

  • Happy New Year

    To You and Yours, from Us and Ours, we wish you all the very best for the coming Year, 2019. We hope that your goals and dreams, this year, amount to being everything you hope for. Over the coming months we hope to resolve grittiness issues, with our stone flour mills; to successfully make, “On…

  • WELL, WE’VE HAD QUITE THE ROCKY ROAD…

    In the last few years we seem to run foul of attempts to Stop Fake News, Control Anonymous Postings, and other such socially-encouraged, vigilante justice like Scroll-by (drive by) Social Network Assassination. My Facebook Profile has been down since February 2016, LinkedIn, and Xing, in quick succession shortly after that, and more recently my Twitter…

  • The “Humble” Chiko Roll.

    In my ongoing research I keep moving forward, or at least try to. Recently I’ve been reviewing my notes on producing an Egg Batter Dough, going back to basics, and looking at what is a batter and what is a dough. Essentially they fall on either side of a continuum of similar products. Chief differences relate…

  • 4K Video Dowloader

    From time to time, we find amazing videos of beautifully created food. Sometimes so amazing in fact that we want to watch the videos over and over again. Since we are not always online 24-7 we like to watch videos offline, and cast to our TV. The best way we’ve found to do this is to…

  • Having fun with KFC

    So a while back, they released a picture of the, apparently, “Original Recipe” Eleven Spices and Herbs, which were locked up in some safe somewhere, which they later encased in clear plastic resin, twice: burying one, as I understand it, in one corner of the Corporate headquarters. So here are some pics from around, “the…