Cooking With Richard

Skip to the second part of this video (or watch all of it — it’s quite fun) to see Lee Krasnow demonstrate an amazing puzzle box.

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Also these appeal to my mathematical nature:

Shame that they cost $400. Actually with the state of the dollar these days, that’s not really very much money.

Watch out, he’s looking at you.

We are chitting some potatoes:

Delicious ika-daikon by my lovely N-sama:

In the garden today, a male blackbird:

and a robin:

and their lunch:

[Editor’s note: The next two photos look quite similar, sorry if you can’t tell the difference]

and another blackbird:

This was the very cool present from the Little Goth when she came round to stay:

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

Previously … swan feeds its pet fish, and video of our ducklings.

Someone please explain …

Swan feeds its fish pets in a zoo (bigger).

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what lives in your skin …?

An appearance by a chaffinch. We have them living in the high trees around the house but they very very rarely come down to ground level. Well we had a chaffinch couple feeding on the ground today. I got these photographs with my 300mm lens from the upstairs window:

A greattit feeding:

I was watching the bluetits today. They are proud and happy parents, but I saw the mother (below) who had previously been feeding her chick sitting on top of the tree, chirping desperately. It may be that she was looking for her baby …

Bird hotel:

We can charge our bluetits and other birds rent. Unfortunately they may pay it in seeds and worms.

Just what a lady needs in the garden.

These are quite cool:

This is the classic Japanese beer junk-food, yakitori of chicken’s innards - hearts, gizzards, necks and whatever. Here I’m using chicken’s hearts from Oriental City. The hearts are rubbed in salt, washed and splayed.

Many chickens died to make this meal …

I cover them in the “mystery sauce” which N-sama made (it’s got at least mirin, lots of sugar and some soya sauce, but I’m not sure what else):

While grilling you need to keep dipping them in the mystery sauce. They cook in about 20 minutes.

Recipe for yakitori, and for the dipping sauce (日本語).

JBS Haldane’s seminal essay: On being the right size.

In no particular order …

Scotch eggs and Irish stew at The Peddler’s Daughter in Nashua, NH. The food was pretty good.

It’s a geek joke:

Freedom to destroy the planet:

They have the Antique’s Roadshow in the US, which I was quite impressed about. However they seem to have a lot less of the old fuddy presenters handling crockery with shaking hands, and a lot more about how many thousands of dollars everything is worth:

While I was walking along the bay, an eagle flew past holding half a pigeon. It dropped its meal on the ice and then sat in a tree while I grabbed my camera and took some pictures. This was (unfortunately) the best one:

A 16th century graveyard:

Cheeky squirrel:

The squirrel was next to this ice-rink in the main park in central Boston:

Carl Zeiss Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science:

Some street scenes from the old quarter:

The office is in fact in Westford, MA which is miles away from Boston itself:

The Red Hat office:

Some typical lunches. I had to go a long way to find those fruits:

You get these daft warnings on everything. We went to a sushi restaurant and they were warning about food poisoning. Strangely enough they don’t warn about how you’ll die of a heart attack if you keep eating the junk above.

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