Cooking With Richard

Apparently a better stollen recipe (English translation).

Here is my kakizome for 2010:

2008′s kakizome (水/”water”) worked out. We got plenty of water, of the wrong sort.

2009′s kakizome (金/”money”) worked well too … Now I have no money.

In 2010, either I’ll grow lots of these, or I’ll become a vegetable. Tune in during 2010 to find out …

By the way, thanks for everyone who wished me a happy birthday. However it’s not actually my birthday. It’s just that I put 1/1 in Facebook because of their privacy-sucking policies.

Update

N-sama making a gift for 書き初めの神:

and finally …

Hiyoko Sable site …

(Thanks Nobuko!)

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.

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!

For Coco-chan:

The recipe was derived from this, quantities doubled, about 3 tbsps of sugar and quite a large amount of parmesan.

Because the bread is quite sweet, it tastes a little like a crumpet when you put butter on top. I note that real crumpets are made with warm milk.

Previously …

A few weeks ago I bought by accident the Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens.

Wow, chickens are … amazing!

These are Japanese fighting cocks! called Japanese SHAMO:

But I also bought a book about goats …

J&M came to see us. Here are the “variety curries” I made:

• lamb curry
• sweet potato and chicken curry
• vegetable curry and onion bhajis
• saffron rice
• greek yogurt

It’s been one year since I bought an iPhone, and to celebrate that I bought the Bijin Tokei iPhone application.

It shows you a different lady every minute. As the website says: “In addition, it is likely to be able to meet the same woman every 24hours.” (Really? Is that how it works?!)

Here is an excited looking Miss 18:45:

4 out of 5 for effort but sorry Miss 18:50 is saucier.

They’re also different (sometimes) from the ladies on the website:

Was it £1.79 well spent? You decide …

Click –> I love a box!!!

MOHIKEN!! Baka-neko

Ummmmmm!!!!

N-sama made this lovely kabocha-based korokke. It is very sweet with a lovely orange colour:

I went to Bletchley Park today (Wikipedia page), home of the code-breaking efforts during World War II.

On my own!

They are starting to preserve the original nissen huts and later brick buildings like this one …

The rebuilt Colossus, arguably the first digital computer:

Captured Japanese codebooks:

They have their own Harrier:

and at the end of the day there was a fly-past by a WWII Hurricane:

I’ll have to take N-sama next time!

Crazy Japanese …