Cooking With Richard

This is my bathroom, not your house!

Previously …

Strange old day at the “village day”.

Wonder what they’re running away from …?

Some honey from a decent bloke on Langley Hill whom I suspect is called Michael:

It is said that local honey is good for hayfever, although a study at U. Connecticut found no evidence for this.

It’s been a great day in the garden. Look, I mowed the lawn!

A resident of Frome St Quintin:

This was a great little restaurant …

Pork Colombo at La Nouvelle Créole‎, Paris, a surprisingly good and cheap Caribbean restaurant.

This is what £60 of compost and soil looks like:

Doesn’t taste of oysters though. Joke, joke: oyster stout is traditionally enjoyed with oysters (from the River Thames back when that was safe to do).

Strong tea was the drink that fuelled the Industrial Revolution, sweetened with the newly cheap sugar from British slave plantations in the West Indies. If the working classes drank enough of this comforting sweet tea, they did not notice the inadequacy of their diets so much. Tea was no longer a luxury but a necessity.

Torygraph article on tea.

Lovely, refreshing, luminous orange Irn Bru:

I used to drink this and Tartan Special quite a lot when I lived in Scotland.

Apparently it’s called “Sushi Bar“. It’s impossible for non-Japanese.

My not-so-new but favourite blog is Cooking Issues, which is the French Culinary Institute‘s tech blog.

Some interesting articles to start with:

• pressure cooking
• liquid nitrogen (looks like I won’t be using this then)
• rotovap
• and finally .. drinking shots
  

Wikipedia: Treadmill desk

Image from NASA’s Terra satellite, huge version here.

I took this photo last week during the cold snap. It’s of a large field next to the house, covered in snow.

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Here’s another — the enchanted forest:

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Chipperfield Common, covered in snow:

I got a bit lost and had to follow my own footsteps back: