Cooking With Richard

Snails might have a homing instinct …

Better not “home” here, coz I’m going to eat you.

We went to the Dacorum Steam Rally again on Sunday.

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Look! It happened to someone else as well!

Nom nom …

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We are growing the cayenne variety of chilli peppers. Here is my scientific test of the first pepper from this season.

I simply don’t believe this Cathay Pacific advert …

But wait, there’s more. If you go to their website there’s this ridiculous flash “game” where you have to grab “girl cards” out of the air, and then there’s a mini-bio on each one. Meet for instance “Julia Chen”, flight attendant by day, but by night …

It’s like the 1950s and 60s all over again …

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

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A petrol lawnmower, from Chipperfield Garden Machinery:

This is my bathroom, not your house!

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Strange old day at the “village day”.

Wonder what they’re running away from …?

I ordered a morello cherry tree. I hope it does better than our lemon tree which eventually died.

It is a maiden tree, which means it will be 1 year old, and won’t fruit for several years.

In the language of flowers, cherry blossom signifies a good education.

Lovely, refreshing, luminous orange Irn Bru:

I used to drink this and Tartan Special quite a lot when I lived in Scotland.

Apparently it’s called “Sushi Bar“. It’s impossible for non-Japanese.

My not-so-new but favourite blog is Cooking Issues, which is the French Culinary Institute‘s tech blog.

Some interesting articles to start with:

• pressure cooking
• liquid nitrogen (looks like I won’t be using this then)
• rotovap
• and finally .. drinking shots