Cooking With Richard

With blackberries from the garden, oranges, greengages.

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This is a sort of spanish omelette. The recipe was adapted from here.

We went to the Dacorum Steam Rally again on Sunday.

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From the garden. As it turns out, courgettes are really easy to grow.

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Look! It happened to someone else as well!

I made some not very successful caramelized onions (in the orange Creuset pan).

These tasted just like the American version that I had in Boston.

The gammon recipe was one by Nigella which was pretty tasty, particularly cold the next day:

Recipe for gammon, and for swede.

Some broad beans from the garden:

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This recipe for beef tacos comes from Nigel Slater’s excellent book Real Fast Food. However instead of buying the pitta breads, I made these ones from scratch. This was really delicious:

Also from Brit Spice.

The swedes in the garden have been a great success:

… but the potatoes, oh dear:

Me finishing off six kumamoto oysters from Neptune Oyster in Boston (recommended!)

Last time I made it …

This is really tasty.

Fat Rascals are a type of fruit scone traditionally made in York and Harrogate (particularly at Betty’s of York Tea Rooms). This recipe is a simple one from the Waitrose web site. The cherries are from Netherbury’s cherry liqueur.

Inside, it’s lemony:

I think these photos show cirrus clouds being pulled along in a jet stream, a very unusual and beautiful cloud formation.

This is from the butcher at the end of the road:

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The taste is very pleasant indeed. It’s a light, refreshing golden ale with a slightly hoppy aftertaste. I’m hoping to convert some lager drinkers this weekend.

Tring Brewery is by the Natural History Museum in Tring:

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A petrol lawnmower, from Chipperfield Garden Machinery: