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This is so annoying. I hate people! Manchester restaurant group loses £6k on reopening day as 270 diners fail to show up.

I wouldn't have expected much from Perigord truffles from thousands of miles from Perigord. Chinese truffles are a waste of time, too. They do not relocate well.

Coriander Lemon Pork Tomato, basil, red onion and sesame salad with chilli.

I went back to the UK last year as documented here. but the original plan was much older. That got cancelled. I haven't been back to Russia since it was still the USSR.

You grow salsa? Well, if anyone could, it'd be you! 😀

Why ever not? Fish and/or pickles are common breakfast foods around the world.

Reviving this ancient topic to tell anyone interested that Natasha has just become a grandmother! She emailed this morning. I'm finding it a bit difficult to take in. Forever, she will be that young woman whispering into my ear. She also mentioned that she hasn't had cabbage and gristle stew for years, but has fond memories.

Things were decidedly fishy today. I bought a turbot and declined the vendor's offer to clean it, as always. They only ever know one way to cook it and it's seldom the way I want to cook it. So I had to clean and filet it myself. No problem. I quite enjoy getting up to my elbows in fish guts. 4 filets While they rested in the fridge, I made some clam soup using stock made from turbot skeleton and head. Usually clam soup is done here with mustard greens, but I didn't have any. Subbed some Malabar spinach . Steamed the filets (2 at a time) and served with a tomato and basil (first harvest from my balcony this year) salad and some sesame and chilli paste. Ate that then repeated with the second two filets (white side). On the side was a lemony orzo "risotto" for starch. Not photographed.

Jalapeno's what? Just asking.

Nothing very exciting about my breakfast of boiled egg in baguette, but I wanted to share the beautiful colour of the yolk. Fresh chicken's egg.

I would guess so, too, but of course, I've never tried! Why would I?

Read again. @weinoo's post details the filling.

Wontons come in several wrapper shapes, although the ones you have done so well are the classic. Round wrappers are usually reserved for jiaozi. Egg in the filling is very unusual here. Cornstarch or any alternative starch, too.

About 1.4 billion people in China! We eat everything with chopsticks - even soup!

I've been having little luck with poached eggs recently. Ever since Covid struck. What's the connection? I'm guessing the distribution chain has slowed down so the eggs are not so fresh, but even my previously ever-reliable duck egg purveyor has let me down recently. Not only were the eggs unpoachable, half of them were just rotten! Words will be had tomorrow!

You beat me to it!

Chicken with garlic, ginger, chilli, capers and green olives marinated then cooked in wine, thickened with a little potato starch and finished with coriander leaf. Aparagus and Jade Gill Mushrooms (蟹味菇 xiè wèi gū - a type of shimeji). Couscous.

I think I'd need more than one - or at least double ink. Unless you mean a female swan. Tried that that back in the late 1950s. Horrible.

Spicy shrimp over orzo.

Squash blossom soup with pork. Ready for the pot Ready for my mouth Baguette for dunking. Slow cooked beef and cannellini beans with curry spices (freshly roasted and ground fennel, cumin, cloves, bay leaf, garlic, ginger, chilli and pre-ground turmeric) and Malibar spinach and coriander leaf / cilantro. Rice. Mangoes for dessert.

Not my usual sort of lunch, but was too busy to cook. Grana Padano cheese, industrial ham, cornichons (pickled with coriander and onion). tomato, sea salt and black pepper. There was also bread and butter. The plate was reloaded after I ate this lot.

This morning I needed someting from the same store as in the last post. This time I spotted that the same company with the chilli sesame seed sauce has a companion. On the left is the one I bought last time; on the right we have what is labelled as sesame oil chilli. The on-label image suggests it is intended as a dip. Hmmm. Yes I bought that one, too. Will report back.