Cooking With Richard

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The fish is Pacific saury (in Japanese, sanma).

This video is actually about my level in Japanese, in that I can watch it and understand almost all of what the narrator is trying to say. I understand the sentences, but just what is going on?

(From JWZ)

Update

Apparently this is a sketch from バミリオン・プレジャー・ナイト (Vermillion Pleasure Night), a risque Japanese late-night variety show. For more of this see Oh Mikey which is somewhat reminiscent of the brilliant Leisure Town.

Shugendo:
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How to make Umenana’s lovely Bangladeshi curry, translated from here …

カレーのレシピ♪
Curry recipe:

・じゃがいも
Potatoes

・たまねぎ
Onions

・とりにく
Chicken

・ココナッツミルク
Coconut milk

・ぎゅうにゅう
Milk

・ターメリックパウダー　　少々
Turmeric powder (a little)

・チリパウダー　　少々
Chilli powder (a little)

・ガラムマサラ　　ちょっと
Garam masala (chotto)

・シナモン　　ちょっと
Cinnamon (chotto)

・クミンパウダー　ちょっと
Cumin powder (chotto)

・ジンジャー
Ginger

・ガーリック
Garlic

・はちみつ
Honey

・しお
Salt

・コショウ
Pepper

She adds: I really dont read recipe…just add all ingredients and cook it.then add bit more some ingredients if i thought I need to do when I taste it…

Fumineko is over here this weekend, enjoying the country air.

Friday night

Lemon chicken:

Saturday

Buffalo mozzarella, tomatoes, bay leaves and some meats:

Lamb shoulder and a celeriac and sweet potato mash:

Sunday

Thyme flowers to top off the pizzas that I made:

This is what Fumineko looks like

Oink oink!
CENSORED!!

Update

Better?
CENSORED AGAIN

I went to see the lovely umenana who lives in a scary flat in north London. She used to live with a Bangladeshi family, and they taught her to make a mean chicken curry. Lovely coconut milk and fragrant pilau rice:

I took along my home-made mango chutney, and made poppadums and onion bhajis.

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(カムクール)

Tomato, mozzarella, garlic and prosciutto:

and sausage meat, chilli, thyme (from the garden) and mozzarella:

but what’s this? Has someone eaten too much?? Or addicted to mixi??? Or chatting to メル友????

Squid:

I was trying to feed them nori:

In celebration of the first anniversary of this blog:

For tonight only, a Golden Half sampler:

Or check out the best of CookingWithRichard:

Watch out, he’s looking at you.

Correction: キムチ　チャーハン
Made by N-sama:

I was particularly proud of the pastry base.

We are chitting some potatoes:

Delicious ika-daikon by my lovely N-sama:

Mito’s pork cooked for 5 hours, just bloody great:

Someone please explain …

Paul Smye-Rumsby, who lives in Dover, said: “It was about 08.15 when suddenly the bed shook violently. “I thought my wife had got cramp or something but then I saw the curtains were moving and the whole house was shaking. It lasted about 1.5 seconds..

When I was in Aomori four years ago there was a really huge earthquake near Sendai which shook the whole place for a minute. Screen capture from the TV:

Quite scary ….