Cooking With Richard

Medieval recipes website. Some interesting ones including baked mallard and marmalade of quinces.

Sign the official petition to save Oriental City which is due to be “redeveloped” (turned into a B&Q superstore of all things) without any consideration except for profits.

Links

• Petition
• If-else blog
• BBC Inside Out programme describes the “real Chinatown”
• Developer’s website describing the work

Recipe …

Quiche Lorraine, named so it seems after the Lorraine region of France is a delicious, fatty quiche with lardons, onions, cheese, eggs and cream:

Bird hotel:

We can charge our bluetits and other birds rent. Unfortunately they may pay it in seeds and worms.

Just what a lady needs in the garden.

These are quite cool:

Crazy little app called Photo Booth that comes with new Macs:

This one looks like The Scream:

Stupid website.

Onion bhajis — greasy, delicious Indian junk food. And surprisingly simple to make.

The recipe came off the back of a packet of Natco’s gram flour (which I urge you to buy …)

I served it with some salad and some yogurt and coriander, with the yogurt diluted with a little milk and olive oil:

Verdict: fantastic!

• 4-core AMD Athlon development box
• 2-core Intel Xeon development box
• IBM X60s laptop