Cooking With Richard

The real Watford Gap

In Japan:

In Britain:

Why does this honey cost £5.49?

Moustache … Like it?

I made four pizzas today. This was one of the experimental ones, caramelized onions and walnut:

I also made a black pudding and chilli pizza, but sadly there is no photo of that one.

N-sama and I had a bet about the black pudding and chilli pizza as to whether M-kun would eat it.

He did.

I lost.

Now also a client of N-sama lives on a farm or something and she bought us some Jerusalem artichokes. (They aren’t artichokes, nor are they from Jerusalem - in fact they are a root similar to potatoes). They contain carbohydrate inulin which makes you fart, and lots of fructose. I made this beef and ale pie, slightly influenced by a Jamie recipe:

Blaaar:

Paris was full of (supposedly) Japanese restaurants. I don’t know if these are really Japanese or if they are just Chinese and others rebranding themselves. That doesn’t matter. What really matters is that this sort of food is very bad environmentally, and any extension of fishing for (eg) tuna takes a terrible toll on the sea environment.

Here are two:

This was a rather lovely, friendly restaurant that we discovered in Rue Mouffetard, Paris.

We had a starter of escargots (snails):

N-sama had a beef stew which tasted like a peposo:

I had a very pleasant cassoulet:

Altogether, a highly recommended restaurant, not particularly because the food was outstanding (although it was very good), but because the place was cosy and friendly.

Photo and someone’s boggy entry.

Delicious pesto from a recipe from Jamie’s Italy book:

The pesto is home made, from a couple of bunches of basil.

MagMyPic.com

Mushi (insects) are very popular in Japan as pets or even for eating. We got these tasty mushi from a popular mushi shop ….

From here:

(Skip to 2′50 in the video to see the effect at work)

More info on the project page

N-sama bought me a tiny helicopter for Christmas, so here it is in action …

Hmmmmmmmmm…. Second time lucky?

OK … third time?

IT FLIES!!!

Edit:

The Professionals fly:

New Years day “kakizome” 1, 2, 3, wikipedia:

Documentary about wildlife in Japan (this link will only work for the next 2 or 3 days, so watch it now!)

Click! —> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008cb9b

I’m going to make this for N-sama every time she is naughty:

This fruity apple pie / tart is delicious with a bit of icecream:

On the beach at Bridlington:

Christmas pudding!

This was N-sama watching that video!

Thanks pinktentacle. Uncanny valley pseudoscience nonsense.

Update

Simroid sans skin.

Application BH2007/00516, Elmshurst, Warren Road - Construction of a part two and part three storey 75 bed nursing home. Provision of 19 parking spaces. (Re-submission of withdrawn application BH2006/01039).