Cooking With Richard

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.

She went for a little walk around the garden earlier …

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!”

Sleepy time for kittens …

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.

Click the images for large versions …

Drift ice around Abashiri:

Mashu-ko:

Where are you? … Come on …

Got you. SLUGS!

It’s not really momiji.

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We have an elder growing at the end of our garden. My plan for this year was to climb up to the top and get everything from it, but that didn’t really work out. We don’t have the sort of ladders to do that, and so I had to rely on my trusty stepladder. Unfortunately that meant not getting very much, just the bottom 10′ or so from the side over the garden. The photo above shows exactly what we ended up with.

Ask N-sama …

(This is not actually Hatfield House, but the chapel in the west garden)