Cooking With Richard

This is a Gordon Ramsey recipe from a calendar, and to be honest it was rather unsatisfying… because it’s real vegetarian food. You eat it and then 20 minutes later you feel hungry.

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We are chitting some potatoes:

Delicious ika-daikon by my lovely N-sama:

In the garden today, a male blackbird:

and a robin:

and their lunch:

[Editor’s note: The next two photos look quite similar, sorry if you can’t tell the difference]

and another blackbird:

I may not be able to take a good photo, or perhaps I can not lay out the food to catch the eye, but the taste really is unparalleled.

For this one I made chips in the usual way.

For the steak I sizzed it on both sides very hot to get the Maillard reactions working, then put it in a cool oven for ten minutes, and rested it for another ten. I made the sauce by adding to the juices a little white wine vinegar, single cream, worcestershire sauce, lots of pepper and some peppercorns, masala wine, and more juices (after the rest period).

Served with beefsteak tomatoes and salad.

Two hours of my life that I won’t see again

If you want to see a good Tom Hanks movie, I recommend Apollo 13.

This was the very cool present from the Little Goth when she came round to stay:

/me wonders if by making this photo smaller, it’ll look better …

No.

Mash: good, carrots: good, chicken breast: dry and tasteless.

Moral: stop wasting time cooking chicken breast. It’s tasteless (even this UK-produced free range bird) because there’s no bones in there. Two days ago I cooked a lamb shoulder for 5 hours. That lamb cost one third as much and tasted far better.

This prompted a small WTF moment when I was in the supermarket today:

Jeyes Fluid “Kills bird flu”. Well I’m sure it does. So does bleach, or probably washing up liquid.

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The sooner we can get rid of these stupid government monopoly/cartels, the better. Read more and even more and for the geeks …

Yearn to be able to spell the word RHYTHM? Look no further than this easy to recall mnemonic: Russian Hippies Yearn To Have Money[*].

Currently, there are no hits on Google. So as far as I know, this was invented by someone at my school. I don’t know his name, but this aide-memoire has helped me on many occasions.

(Unfortunately Oxidation is Loss, Reduction is Gain (OILRIG) which was also claimed by a classmate of mine, turns out to be rather more commonly known.)

[*] It made a bit more sense in the 80s when (we assumed) Russian hippies suffering under communism were really rather poor.