Cooking With Richard

Singing …

Talking …

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

I really need to try this raw food recipe by Ani Phyo:

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

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/eighties-season/

They are making a 2-part adaptation of Martin Amis’s excellent novel Money.

Interesting video, how to make porchetta di testa, which is a kind of salami made from a pig’s head.

Click –> I love a box!!!

MOHIKEN!! Baka-neko

Ummmmmm!!!!

Not to mention the many and excellent Adam and Joe Toy parodies …

Crazy Japanese …

Not sure about the whole message there, but anyhow … inspired by this advert, I bought a packet. 59p per packet, and they are quite tiny compared to the real pocky. Also the milk chocolate is horrible compared to the plain chocolate pocky they sell in Japan.

M Ward is playing at Shepherds Bush Empire, 30th June, a bargain at £15/ticket (inc. fees).

I quite liked this song, particularly the shika. They definitely need more shika though …

Fish! A Japanese obsession (UK only).

Remember my rubbish attempts at tilt-shift photography a few years ago? Here’s someone who has done some brilliant timelapse tilt-shift movies:

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

(c/o Boingboing)

I made falafels again last night. They are still falling apart a little bit during cooking so next time I’m going to try adding half an onion and frying at a higher heat.

Here is a videojug recipe for falafels. Notice that their falafels stick together. Be sure to read their comments before making this …

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Meanwhile here is a ridiculously hard recipe for making your own mozzarella. You will need: 1 cow, 1 digital thermometer, 1 pH meter, rennet, a good mozzarella starter, and hours and hours of spare time.

My cousin and I actually did Manic Miner in a whole weekend using an infinite lives poke and lots of reloading. But this is just ridiculous …

I love the way he does the Warehouse. IIRC we spent literally hours trying to work out that level.

(Nice bit of drama if you watch it all the way to the last level).

Update

One has ESCAPED!!

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I captured two of them in the garden tonight. Hopefully I can get a few more after it rains. This one was wrapped around one of N-sama’s green beans, and eating it! But he seems to like celery as well, so …

How To Make A Burning Laser Flashlight

VideoJug is quite a fun website actually. One day I’ll have to make these fish fingers:

How To Make Homemade Fish Fingers