Cooking With Richard

Yoko “donated” her hot plate to the cookingwithrichard team.

This hot plate is a fantastic piece of kit and very rare — they simply don’t make the 240V (UK/EU) versions of these hot plates at all, and this one is a good 15-16″ in diameter so it’s large enough for the largest okonomiyaki or sukiyaki:

N-sama bought me these very useful bowls as a present:

The okonomiyaki, in fact not very nice as N-sama was quick to tell me. She said “マーマー”:

A rather pleasant soft cheese from France:

This was my inspiration for making fondue.

Moustache … Like it?

Swiss cheese fondue:

With bread … Tasty, but very very filling:

This spicy lamb and peas recipe should have much less water in it:

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Pancakes have been eaten in England for at least 500 years, and pancake day (Shrove Tuesday) has been celebrated for at least 400 years (and probably a lot lot longer).

Delia’s pancake recipe

I made four pizzas today. This was one of the experimental ones, caramelized onions and walnut:

I also made a black pudding and chilli pizza, but sadly there is no photo of that one.

N-sama and I had a bet about the black pudding and chilli pizza as to whether M-kun would eat it.

He did.

I lost.

Now also a client of N-sama lives on a farm or something and she bought us some Jerusalem artichokes. (They aren’t artichokes, nor are they from Jerusalem - in fact they are a root similar to potatoes). They contain carbohydrate inulin which makes you fart, and lots of fructose. I made this beef and ale pie, slightly influenced by a Jamie recipe:

Blaaar: