Cooking With Richard » nature 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 Paws http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/08/04/paws/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/08/04/paws/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:32:17 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3190

]]> 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 She’s had a busy day http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/22/shes-had-a-busy-day/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/22/shes-had-a-busy-day/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:26:53 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3155 She went for a little walk around the garden earlier …

]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/22/shes-had-a-busy-day/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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]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/07/sushi/feed/ 6 Snails 1 http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/05/snails-1/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/07/05/snails-1/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:20:06 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3121 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.

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Talking …

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

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Drift ice around Abashiri:

Mashu-ko:

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Got you. SLUGS!

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]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/10/03/misty-morning/feed/ 1 モミジ in the garden http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/09/23/%e3%83%a2%e3%83%9f%e3%82%b8-in-the-garden/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/09/23/%e3%83%a2%e3%83%9f%e3%82%b8-in-the-garden/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:53:31 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3058

It’s not really momiji.

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vs

follow this link!

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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.

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Ask N-sama …

]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/09/05/whos-poo/feed/ 2 Hatfield House panorama http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/31/hatfield-house-panorama/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/31/hatfield-house-panorama/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:43 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3009 (This is not actually Hatfield House, but the chapel in the west garden)

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