Cooking With Richard » craziness http://www.cookingwithrichard.com It's a strange umbrella we're under altogether Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:52:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Sui hanky http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/09/27/sui-hanky/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/09/27/sui-hanky/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:03:47 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3204 I’m hoping this will make the bestest rice ever …

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]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/08/04/paws/feed/ 2 Snails 2 http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/24/snails-2/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/24/snails-2/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:53:34 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3162 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.

]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/24/snails-2/feed/ 2 Mimi-ge? http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/19/mimi-ge/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/19/mimi-ge/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:41:16 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3150 If you look closely, you can see she has really long ear hair, like M-kun.

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

]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/13/furries/feed/ 6 Sushi http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/11/sushi-2/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/11/sushi-2/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:29:35 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3142 “Play with me!” … No, I’m working …

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Explanation …

]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/11/drugs-for-kittys/feed/ 0 Sitting and playing http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/08/sitting-and-playing/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/08/sitting-and-playing/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:52:03 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3132 “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!”

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

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Talking …

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

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Previously …

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Drift ice around Abashiri:

Mashu-ko:

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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.

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Got you. SLUGS!

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]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/26/open-studios-around-watford/feed/ 0 Space food http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/06/space-food/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/06/space-food/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:00:27 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=2973 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 …

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