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”:

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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:

Paris was full of (supposedly) Japanese restaurants. I don’t know if these are really Japanese or if they are just Chinese and others rebranding themselves. That doesn’t matter. What really matters is that this sort of food is very bad environmentally, and any extension of fishing for (eg) tuna takes a terrible toll on the sea environment.

Here are two:

Mushi (insects) are very popular in Japan as pets or even for eating. We got these tasty mushi from a popular mushi shop ….

From here:

New Years day “kakizome” 1, 2, 3, wikipedia:

Documentary about wildlife in Japan (this link will only work for the next 2 or 3 days, so watch it now!)

Click! —> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008cb9b

Sashimi delivered by Mitomi:

Previously …

I made this for N-sama & M-kun last night. ししゃも & エビ・フライ. Miso soup (I was hoping to take a picture of that but N-sama ate that before I could). And rice. Looks authentic …?

This was N-sama watching that video!

Thanks pinktentacle. Uncanny valley pseudoscience nonsense.

Update

Simroid sans skin.

Netherbury visited us today. We had a medley of Indian vegetarian food — soup, red kidney and borlotti bean curry, onion bhaji, lime pickle and bread.

Rubbish photo:

Very familiar!

By N-sama!

This was very nice:

Night night …

Hawaiian macadamia nuts covered in chocolate from our friend Kimiko-chan … delicious:

Delicious mini-nabe that N-sama made for me:

and steak tartare:

(The restaurant is called “Sam Chon Po” but I don’t seem to be able to find anything about it on the web).