Cooking With Richard

I’m hoping this will make the bestest rice ever …

This was a video I took on the very first day that Sushi came to our house. You can see she was exploring the new smells in the house …

After feeding them on lettuce for 3 weeks I starved them in the refrigerator for a couple of days:

Rinsed:

Plunged into boiling salty water, for 12 minutes:

Sushi, playing with a stick. It’s her favourite toy now:

Garlic and parsley:

Winkle-picker:

After boiling them, I drained them and extracted them from their shells:

Fried in garlic and butter:

The result, with a bit of parsley:

We all agreed they tasted a little bit like slimy mushrooms. An enjoyable day was had by all in the garden.

Thanks to P-p for taking the photos.

If you look closely, you can see she has really long ear hair, like M-kun.

I like to think she’s dreaming about chasing blackbirds.

“Play with me!” … No, I’m working …

Explanation …

“Play with me!”

It’s bloody hard to take photos of her because she doesn’t stop moving …

“Now I want to go to sleep!”

I was just cleaning out the snail cage:

Actually three of them were dead, so I have 20 altogether. Just right for a nice meal for two this weekend.

Singing …

Talking …

We’ve got two of them in the garden stealing food from the smaller birds.

Previously …

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Drift ice around Abashiri:

Mashu-ko:

Apparently this is what you do with leftover haggis in Scotland. Just roll into small balls, cover them in breadcrumbs, and deep fry them.

The result is pretty good in fact, rather like faggots.

Where are you? … Come on …

Got you. SLUGS!

In this picture of our back garden from Google Maps? Obviously this must date from when the previous people were living here. Click to see full size.

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Hertfordshire open studios in and around Watford during September.

Here’s the raw avocado soup, a rawfood recipe:

It looks, and probably tastes, like the green gunk they have in science fiction films. Well, it’s not too bad, but I felt quite hungry afterwards.

Update: I realized that I forgot the olive oil …

I really need to try this raw food recipe by Ani Phyo: