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鲜肉香菇包子 Pork and Shiitake Baozi (steamed buns), with chopped chilli dip. It may look like I was mean with the dip, but that stuff is potent.

All my local restaurants are Chinese. I can't go to them all! But I'm all for supporting local businesses and the Chinese catering industry in western countries has been hit harder than most.

A cooker is a machine on which a cook cooks. It would help if you told us what you can cook? Can you boil an egg? Rice? What do you eat? Who cooks for you now? Can you ask them how to cook at least one dish?

To wash down your Jamón Ibérico, obviously!

Although I do have a dedicated meat mallet with the spiky metal hitting surface, I haven't unpacked it since I moved home four years ago. Instead, I use this rubber mallet which wasn't designed for food use. I bought it in a hardware store. It does the job without tearing the meat.

I want this now! No chance!

Not a full appliance, but I've never used that attachment on the right. Supposedly for peeling garlic. I only use single headed garlic the skin of which just falls off if you so much as give it a sideways glance.

I use the chopper bowl attachment (left) of this setup to grind meat all the time. No problems. Used it while preparing last night's dinner.

It is freezing here (or very nearly) - 2°C today. It's supposed to be tropical. So dinner ain't tropical. Mince and Tatties. HP Sauce.

Just came across this. It's somewhat cickbaity, but some amusing gifts. 25 amazing gifts for your favorite bacon lover

Please excuse ill-lit photographs, but it's 3°C here in the tropics and I want my dinner at least a bit warm!

Much as I like finnan haddie, they are very different from Arbroath smokies. The are cold smoked and require cooking, unlike the smokies which you can eat straight from the smokehouse.

Everyone does it. No permission required. Yeah. Roast them.

Arbroath smokies are butterflied haddock cooked/hot smoked hanging in exactly the same way and I've seen carp being cooked this way in China, too. Not unique. They are also often eaten by hand.

As I said, I haven't grown them yet, but will do so in the spring. I don't foresee any problems with roots. I've grown them before successfully.

Home made wontons (with shrimp, pork and shiitake) in chicken broth (also home made) and spinach.

Purely for the record, I love beets. Totally unavailable here, so I smuggled a pack of seeds in last year to grow some on my balcony this spring. I'm now laughing at all the people who mocked my perfectly sensible aversion to c@rn! 😂

Well, it amused me.

Pork and shiitake fried noodles - with garlic, ginger, Shaoxing, soy sauce and scallions.

Not really a word that should be banned, but a pronounciation. I twitch uncontrollably when I hear people who should know better pronounce "restaurateur" with an "n" in the middle. Yes, Mr. Ramsay you are a prime offender!