Cooking With Richard

Previously and previously and previously.

New sink …

I tried making smaller pizza … they work a bit better:

This was a multi-stage curry that I cooked from scratch without a recipe. The base was onions and tomato. The first curry was lamb shank and sweet potato (pictured below). After that, the next day I made a pea and sprout curry with the leftover sauce. Both curries were excellent.

This is a bacon butty I made for N-sama last weekend. The bacon was particularly good quality and the butty tasted really great:

Crazy Japanese …. One of them looks like lovely Yuka though.

Unlike Silverlink they can’t seem to run trains on time, so … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Shitland

I think it was this pub although I’m not absolutely sure. Sharp’s Doom Bar is a pleasant Cornish pint of bitter.

It took me bloody ages to work out that they were asking for me to type in the numbers (like イチ => 1 etc). I was trying to type in the hiragana and katakana …

Take a crinkle-cut crisp, and cover it with dark chocolate. The simple concept behind Royce’ Potato Chip Chocolate Original (note: apostrophe in the wrong place), or as they say “By breaking down old customs and producing consistently original items, we are pursuing a new level in chocolate enjoyment.”

Quite tasty too — better photos on this blog.

Also comes in a keitai strap version!

Thanks Aya!

I ordered a goose from Clerkes Geese, but how best to cook my goose? (I’m going to call her “WAAKO”).

This site has illustrations on how to truss, cook and slice a goose.

Gordon Ramsey’s Christmas goose recipe looks a bit poor.

Delia’s suggesting goose, pork, sage and pears.

Goose, plum and sage, sounds nice.

Goose with cranberries, sage and a traditional stuffing. Another goose recipe with a traditional chestnut stuffing. I think I’m seeing a pattern here …

Goose with apple stuffing, and another goose and apple recipe, and yet another one.

The recipe is a variation on this one and this one.

I ordered a goose for Christmas from Clerkes Geese.

Something of a lost opportunity. The Two Brewers is a traditional pub in just about the perfect English village setting (yet close to London). With the right owner it could be a great pub, but instead it’s a moderate chain pub with restaurant-cum-hotel pretensions. The food was 5/10, certainly not bad, but nothing of note.

I almost discovered this recipe by accident, by taking very thin, small strips of the pizza dough and frying them quickly in olive oil (over a very hot pan).

Mmmm delicious with home made sprout and sweet potato curry!

After months of wrangling and worry we finally exchanged contracts on our new house. Here it is. The strange raised section with a window on the right is the wretched flying freehold that caused everyone so much trouble:

The lane:

Big garden!

This is where Mito can stay when she comes. Probably when the house was built in the 1920s it was the toilet …

The village common:

Things have been tricky for the past couple of months because of the uncertainty about where we are going to move to, but it’s possible tomorrow we may have some good news …

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(But I thought the same thing yesterday too)