Cooking With Richard » places 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 Sushi’s first day exploring http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/08/13/sushis-first-day-exploring/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2011/08/13/sushis-first-day-exploring/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:31:17 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3194 This was a video I took on the very first day that Sushi came to our house. You can see she was exploring the new smells in the house …

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Talking …

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

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Previously …

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Drift ice around Abashiri:

Mashu-ko:

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Apparently this is what you do with leftover haggis in Scotland. Just roll into small balls, cover them in breadcrumbs, and deep fry them.

The result is pretty good in fact, rather like faggots.

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Grasmere farm sausages, salad and green tomato chutney both grown in our garden, eggs from Sarratt, apple sauce made with bramley apples from my friend’s garden in Tring, best mashed potatoes.

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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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Thanks N-sama and H-san for making it!

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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 …

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]]> http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/31/hatfield-house-panorama/feed/ 0 Medlar http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/30/medlar/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2010/08/30/medlar/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:22:07 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=3005 A medlar (similar to an apple or a quince) that I borrowed from Hatfield House today. These have to be rotted down slightly (a process called bletting) before we can eat them, and then they are supposed to taste of apple sauce and cinnamon.

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On Lady E’s desk, which is now my workbench!

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