Cooking With Richard

Farnborough Airshow 2008 - Photos

rich — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:44:04 +0000

Spitfire:

Vulcan bomber, recently restored at the cost of £7m by these guys:

Red Arrows:

Farnborough Airshow 2008 - Red Arrows

rich — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:55:32 +0000

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

Cute obento

rich — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:58:18 +0000

Wow … & her blog

(Thanks M-kun for finding the bento porn pool on flickr)

Top Gear in Japan

rich — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:02:26 +0000

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

Pet shop

rich — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:00:22 +0000

At a pet shop near Hemel Hamster:

おいしそう:

だいげーびる:

M-kun:

Diwana

rich — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:00:04 +0000

We went to Diwana by Euston Station with Rachel last night, and as usual it was delicious and cheap (£12 per head), an unbeatable combination:

Messy gratin dauphinois

rich — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:00:37 +0000

A gratin dauphinois, roughly from this Heston Blumenthal recipe:

Western Spaghetti

rich — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:59:28 +0000

Vaguely cooking related video:

More PES …

Another garden snail cook

rich — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:41:38 +0000

GingerNinja has turned up in my inbound links, recycling garden snails as food. Now that’s what we like to see! … and eat …

Unfortunately all the snails in this house are being eaten by our song thrush, faster than I can collect them.

A few more Boston photos

rich — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:43:48 +0000

Boston beer:

A giant steak. Very nice:

I totally enjoyed the Japanese film Paprika on the plane, and then bought it for N-sama as an anniversary present on DVD:

Bathroom 2

rich — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:18:49 +0000

The bathroom is vaguely finished, 4 days late (double the original estimate). At least one can now have a bath, although not a shower:

This is what I’m eating at the moment … Reheated curry, peas and bread:

There’s about another 3 days of work to go, if they pull their fingers out (ie. unlikely):

finish off the grouting and miscellaneous work in the bathroom (½ day)
put up a new ceiling in the kitchen and plaster the downstairs (1+ day, lots of disruption)
some electrical work (½ day)
new carpets everywhere (1 day, but not really disruptive)

The plan you see above is actually the very first time that anyone has written down a plan for the work.

Bathroom

rich — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:00:35 +0000

This blog needs a new category.

Forget best, we need worst …

Anyway, this is for Lady E.

In case you were wondering, it’s our bedroom:

.. And the worst thing of all is I haven’t seen my wife for days.

The How and Why Wonder Books

rich — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:42:25 +0000

Wonderful thing, the internet. Everything is slowly being catalogued and placed online by devoted collectors. When I was a child I owned several books in the How and Why Wonder Books series - devoted mainly to topics in the natural sciences. A person called Rob Storey is collecting these and has put all the book covers online. The one I remember best was the dystopic and frightening The Spoilt Earth, a post-apocalyptic vision of an environmentally degraded world. (Here is another, smaller collection of covers) Now I’ve just got to wait for someone to scan the contents and put those online too. You can’t buy good quality science books for children any more. Instead you get tame nonsense like this, nothing dangerous because of course the publishers might get sued.

Boston 4 - Skywalk panorama

rich — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:00:58 +0000

Photos from the Boston Skywalk, stitched together into a panorama using hugin in Fedora:

Click to enlarge

Click to supersize me (TIFF image)

Boston 3 - ramen

rich — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:00:58 +0000

Gyoza and pork ramen from Sapporo Ramen in a little Japanese mall in Cambridge MA. The noodles were exceedingly good:

This is something they call “bubble tea“, which is a sweet tea with tapioca balls. The one I had here was made with red beans and green tea, but you can have other variations. I think this has probably got about a million calories in it, but it’s pretty pleasant to drink on a very hot day like today:

Boston 2 - food

rich — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:00:58 +0000

Clam Chowder, essentially a clam/fish soup with cream, with oyster-flavour crackers. This is a Boston / New England speciality. Pretty good actually:

Smoked salmon:

A more posh clam chowder:

Strawberries covered in chocolate, and cake. The strawberries were very tasty:

Boston 1

rich — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:47:31 +0000

Red Hat Summit in Boston:

Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox:

Bagels for breakfast:

Da boyz:

Bubble3D

rich — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:00:08 +0000

Today is the 10th anniversary of bubble3d, a screensaver that I wrote while I was very bored and trying out OpenGL for the first time at Orchestream, previously known as INmEDIA Concepts Ltd. I think I left Orchestream only a couple of months after this and because I left just before the peak of the dot-com scam I missed out on millions of pounds of potential wealth (so it goes …)

It feels like a long time ago, maybe not 10 years. One thing I remember about writing this was that the bubbles are actually inside out because of an error in an issue of the OpenGL red book.

The sounds of the Japanese summer

rich — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:58:57 +0000

This is an old From Our Own Correspondent article about the sounds of hot summers in Japan. I wish I could find the original broadcast programme.

Shuru shuru shuru doon patchi patchi
Hyuu doro doro
Goku goku
Goro goro pika
Kara koro kara koro

Poo-poo bum-bum

rich — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:00:22 +0000

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

And for the main finale: