Rachel is growing 30 shiso plants in her house, and very kindly she gave three of them to us. We’re going to give some to my brother, who has probably never tasted this delicious herb before.
What is the spider plant doing?
Finally we got a carpet in the second bedroom:
Bloke who fitted it did a good job actually.
(Thanks M-kun for finding the bento porn pool on flickr)
A gratin dauphinois, roughly from this Heston Blumenthal recipe:
Boston beer:
A giant steak. Very nice:
I totally enjoyed the Japanese film Paprika on the plane, and then bought it for N-sama as an anniversary present on DVD:
The bathroom is vaguely finished, 4 days late (double the original estimate). At least one can now have a bath, although not a shower:
This is what I’m eating at the moment … Reheated curry, peas and bread:
There’s about another 3 days of work to go, if they pull their fingers out (ie. unlikely):
The plan you see above is actually the very first time that anyone has written down a plan for the work.
Photos from the Boston Skywalk, stitched together into a panorama using hugin in Fedora:
Gyoza and pork ramen from Sapporo Ramen in a little Japanese mall in Cambridge MA. The noodles were exceedingly good:
This is something they call “bubble tea“, which is a sweet tea with tapioca balls. The one I had here was made with red beans and green tea, but you can have other variations. I think this has probably got about a million calories in it, but it’s pretty pleasant to drink on a very hot day like today:
Clam Chowder, essentially a clam/fish soup with cream, with oyster-flavour crackers. This is a Boston / New England speciality. Pretty good actually:
Smoked salmon:
A more posh clam chowder:
Strawberries covered in chocolate, and cake. The strawberries were very tasty:
Ummaii!
Our crazy driving holiday around Scotland is now over. I drove 1,104 miles. Here are some photos:
Home of the worst pub on Arran …
The Array Whisky distillery, home of some rather pleasant spirits.
It’s my bro’s moggie:
These sausages were from the butcher on the high street in High Bentham in the Yorkshire Dales.
They were absolutely delicious. I finished them off with an improvised gravy constructed from the cooking fats, cranberry sauce, sage, rosemary, red wine and water:
I made this last Sunday, because the oven is the only thing I can use in the kitchen at the moment. I stuffed the chicken under the skin with butter and herbs from the garden. With a cream gravy, roast potatoes and carrots.
Snails:
.. and pants:
