Cooking With Richard

Our broadband is still being screwed up by the great British telephone monopoly, but I haven’t cooked very much in the last couple of weeks anyhow. Too busy!

I did catch a few snails from the new garden, just as an experiment. Turns out, as you can see in the picture below, that we have two types of snail. There’s a plentiful supply of the small brown lipped snail [the two smaller ones on top in this photo], but rather fewer of the common garden snail which I like eating.

Here’s a resource for keen snail hunters to use to identify English snails. Apparently Roman snails are now a protected species in England, so I can’t go and eat them. It wasn’t a good idea anyway since they are so rare.

Now here’s a Jamie Oliver recipe, modified greatly by me. You heat the chillis directly in the flames of a gas hob until they blacken, then cover them and peel them. The chillis are chopped and mixed with mozzarella, rocket, pepper, olive oil and anything else you like in a salad, to make this great mozzarella salad:

What do you do when you have half the quantity of ingredients for two pizzas? Make a “two seasons”, of course …

Bread, made with leftover pizza dough:

This weekend we went to the Bengal Lancer, an “Indian” (actually, Pakistani) restaurant in Kentish Town. Good food, and at a reasonable price, but I fear their lamb shank wasn’t quite as tasty as the one I had there two years ago.

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