Cooking With Richard

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 …

Go to the comments page for this video

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!!

. . .

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

My office is opposite Farnborough airport, and every two years there’s a very famous airshow. We went there last time, in 2006 and took lots of photos.

The company held a BBQ today at the office, because the 2008 airshow is on at the moment, so we got a free display.

In the UK there are laws which were passed after an accident at the 1952 Farnborough show which killed many spectators to say that airplanes cannot fly over or towards the crowd. Well, our BBQ isn’t in the crowd, so the planes were flying right over us!

More photos later, but in the meantime, the Royal Air Force Red Arrows display team at Farnborough today:

Higher quality version

Top Gear race across Japan [this link will only work if you're in the UK] in a fast car versus a shinkansen (and other types of train).

Note: The interesting part starts at around 15 minutes in.

Click for programme

Vaguely cooking related video:

More PES …

I was a bit confused by this one, he keeps on saying “shika shika“?

And for the main finale:

I so want this game …

I’m afraid that the ducks eggs and nest has gone. Something dug under the fence from the next door garden and swiped all the eggs. Only 2 days to go before they hatched as well :-(

Update

The neighbour thinks it was a fox, although maybe it was the neighbour’s dog. You can see the hole and the broken nest here:

and from the other side of the fence:

There was no sign of any eggs or even egg shells.

Mother was OK, but shaken. She sat in the garden for about half an hour like this, just doing nothing:

And that was that.