Cooking With Richard

and from Clancy:

By the way, Clara and Clancy are sister and brother cats, owned by my family. Clancy looks like a white tiger, and doesn’t normally talk to anyone, but Clara is very friendly.

from Clara

Home made, just olive oil, fresh and dried chillis, and garlic, cooked for 20 minutes or so. It will sit for another 2 or 3 weeks before being ready.

Recipe here. I’m not sure if I’ve ever used Mascarpone before, but it makes a wonderful combination with the cake.

Thanks to oldest Megumi and N-sama for buying oreja de cerdo cocida a.k.a. boiled pig’s ears. N-sama boiled it up with some greens to make this delicious pig’s ear stew:

I made this pudding, Scotch pancakes with damson jam and golden syrup:

Recipe here. I used about 100g of butter, 2 large spoonfuls of golden syrup, 7/8ths large packet of ordinary digestive biscuits, and 200g mix of 70% & 85% chocolate. The chocolate was a little too bitter, so more butter/syrup or a sweeter chocolate would have been better.

No idea about the name “polish cake”. We used to call it “broken biscuit biscuit”.

Recipe from here.

A cupcake, earlier today, now in my tummy:

Actually, they taste really good…

Sorry, no good photos, I was working in Dublin the whole time.