Cooking With Richard » stupidity

Snails 2

rich — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:53:34 +0000

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.

Snails 1

rich — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:20:06 +0000

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.

Bob the angry flower

rich — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:31:27 +0000

follow this link!

Who’s poo?

rich — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:00:48 +0000

Ask N-sama …

Sainsburys smash’n'grab

rich — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:34:42 +0000

Here’s the news at Hemel Today.

Watford

rich — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:21:49 +0000

Richard’s first chilli of the year test

rich — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:49:20 +0000

We are growing the cayenne variety of chilli peppers. Here is my scientific test of the first pepper from this season.

Cathay Pacific … what the f—?

rich — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:22:46 +0000

I simply don’t believe this Cathay Pacific advert …

But wait, there’s more. If you go to their website there’s this ridiculous flash “game” where you have to grab “girl cards” out of the air, and then there’s a mini-bio on each one. Meet for instance “Julia Chen”, flight attendant by day, but by night …

It’s like the 1950s and 60s all over again …

Dry ice

rich — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:10:29 +0000

Crazy fish game

rich — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:00:10 +0000

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

Curry with paratha

rich — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:22:28 +0000

Paratha is a type of fried bread which I discovered and decided (wrongly) was naan. Anyway, here we’re eating it with a mouth-watering slow-cooked lamb curry made with shanks from the local butcher and sweet potatoes from the local shop. Oishii!

Sorry about the terrible photo. Notice in the background the JML pedometer which registered 3000 steps an hour on my treadmill before it overloaded and died. Bloody JML!!

Where did Oriental City go?

rich — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:21:08 +0000

Oriental City was a large South-East Asian mall and community centre in North London, reasonably close to Colindale Station. It closed for redevelopment on 1 June 2008, though as of early 2010 the redevelopment appears unlikely to actually happen, and the new Pacific Plaza in Wembley looks much more promising. THIS LINK is a partial list of where the Oriental City traders have moved to. (Was it worth destroying a few acres of land and an entire cross-London community for this?)

Possibly Pacific Plaza might replace it. They have the Japanese crockery shop, but not yet the huge supermarket.

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Painting and decorating

rich — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Apparently I’m a “head man”

rich — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:25:07 +0000

Hiyoko Sable site …

(Thanks Nobuko!)

Useless train service, so why not?

rich — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:36:52 +0000

Unlike Silverlink they can’t seem to run trains on time, so … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Shitland

Bloody Japanese captcha!

rich — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:51:13 +0000

It took me bloody ages to work out that they were asking for me to type in the numbers (like イチ => 1 etc). I was trying to type in the hiragana and katakana …

Flying flipping freehold

rich — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:15:36 +0000

Ooops

rich — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:11:11 +0000

Sorry about the downtime over the past two days. I accidentally pressed the wrong button on the web server.

Everything should be back to normal now.

Chickens and goats

rich — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:28:41 +0000

A few weeks ago I bought by accident the Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens.

Wow, chickens are … amazing!

These are Japanese fighting cocks! called Japanese SHAMO:

But I also bought a book about goats …

I love a box!!!

rich — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:15:16 +0000

Click –> I love a box!!!

MOHIKEN!! Baka-neko

Ummmmmm!!!!