Raku

Raku é uma técnica/forma de cozedura e pós cozedura de peças cerâmicas que envolve uma posterior "queima" das peças. Estas saindo do forno incandescentes (cerca de 1200 °C no máximo) são envolvidas em baldes cheios de serradura e automaticamente ardem e queimam. Caso a peça seja previamente vidrada, o resultado normalmente é um brilho muito característico e quase exclusivo do raku. Caso contrário, se a peça não estiver vidrada, depois de sair do serradura pode-se observar que fica completamente negra.


Esta é uma técnica com muitos anos e vinda do oriente mas já é usada há muito por artistas ocidentais e de todo o mundo.

Fish Cakes

Ingredients

1 lb of cod fillets
2 medium-sized russett potatoes
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
2 Tbsp freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped.
1 onion finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon pepper
salt to taste
2 eggs, lightly beaten

Oil for frying

Method

1  Boil and mash the potatoes, let them stand.

2 Boil the codfish – you should boil the fish until it easily flakes. Drain the water from the fish and then be sure to flake the fish with a fork. Whilst you are flaking the boiled cod you should also remove all the bones. 

3 Next, mix and knead the flaked codfish with the mashed potatoes and the rest of the ingredients (the lightly beaten eggs, the cloves, parsley etc…) together by hand. If the mixture is too crumbly, add another egg. 

4 Shape the mixture into cakes and fry them on medium high heat in a skillet coated with oil.

Makes 12 fish cakes. Serves 4-6.

Cutey Babies made of porcelain

Doggie prayer.

Some of the projects that I am working on

Clowns

Two clowns. One made from porcelain the other I used a plastic water bottle. 

     

Chicken Spaghetti

Ingredients:
1 small chicken (cut into small pieces)
2 small cloves garlic (finely chopped)
1 onion (chopped
3-4 tbsn oil
5 tbsp tamato puré
Salt to taste
2 tspn paprika
3/4 packet spaghetti


Procedure:

1. In a pot, put some oil and saute chopped onion and garlic till a particular smell starts to come from the onion garlic mixture, it usually takes a minute. Don’t fry them too much so that their color turn into brown. Add tamato puré, paprika and salt.
2. Now add chicken pieces in the onion garlic mixture and stir continuously on medium-high flame so that all water of chicken has been dried.
3. After that, add water to cover chicken  Mix and cook the chicken mixture on high flame till the gravy becomes thick.
4. Boil the spaghetti and mix them into the cooked chicken on medium heat for a minute.
Serve and enjoy. Bon Apetite.