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It's not related to dandelion, but to sunflowers. But yes, mildly peppery.

Here's one I knew about but only saw in the supermarket for the first time today. Simplified Chinese 一点红; Traditional Chinese 一點紅 (Mandarin: yī diǎn hóng; Cantonese: jat1 dim2 hung4). Emilia sonchifolia, lilac tasselflower or cupid's shaving brush. Mostly used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), but the leaves and shoots are edible. Note: The literal meaning of the Chinese is "one spot (of) red", which is blatantly untrue, as the 280 grams of greenery I bought contained not one, but two reddish flowers.

Thai / Vietnamese inspired stir fried beef with garlic, chilli, mint, coriander / cilantro, Thai fish sauce, soy sauce, scallions and fresh straw mushrooms. Rice.

Squid with fermented black beans, garlic, ginger, chilli, oyster sauce and snow peas - a local traditional pairing. Served with orzo - a not at all local or traditional pairing. But it worked.

Jiaozi with "Super Hot" Sriracha. The sauce wasn't that hot - to my ravaged palate.

Comfort food, although I wasn't feeling uncomfortable. Pork cutlets, buttery fork mashed potatoes and asparagus. With an elegent side of HP Sauce.

Spicy shrimp with shallots, chilli and hothouse garlic chives. Black pepper. Rice.

Chicken and Chips.

This picture is not of my dinner last night. Although dinner worked out just fine, photographing it was a disaster, which is a pity because the dish actually looked good. This is a steamed sea bass and last night I steamed another. If you try to imagine the cucumber in the picture is steamed shrimp, you may get an inkling of how last night's version looked. The chilli and green onion on the fish was the same, but I used ginger in the slashes instead of the garlic shown here. I also omittted the soy sauce, only using Shaoxing wine. I served the fish and prawns with asparagus and rice. I forget what I served the the one pictured with - it was August 2016.

Chicken with garlic, shallots, chilli, capers, olives and asparagus in white wine. Chardonnay. Served with rice and a slurp or two of the same wine.

Yes. Just a relatively rough sea salt. "Koshering salt" would be a more logical name, but...

Here it is on YouTube. Easier to get to.

I have a huge collection of photographs of "No Photography" signs I have taken all around the world!

It might be that, too.

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Rather disappointed the article only mentions a short reference to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake rather then the chapter of Ulysses where Leopold Bloom not only makes his wife breakfast in bed, but also feeds the cat then goes shopping for his own, returns and cooks and eats it. It is by far the best description of a breakfast I know. The full passage is here.

Pad Ped Pla Duk? ผัดเผ็ดปลาดุก?

Lazy food. I just didn't want to go shopping, so store cupboard dinner. Pasta with sausage, garlic, chilli, Chinese chives and coriander leaf / cilantro. Lazy but hit the spot.

I generally only use this simple one. As you can see it is well-used. Like so many others, it has a magnet to attach to the fridge or can stand on the counter. Loud of enough for me. If I need to use more than one timer at once (extremely rare), I also have one on each of my two cell phones.

How many wifes do you have? 😂

There was one road near my home where your car was almost guaranteed to be hit head on by a suicidal grouse every time you went that way. One of my earliest memories was of my father slamming on the brakes and telling me to run back and get the critters. They aren't the brightest of creatures, but sure are tasty.

Incidentally, this was my first meal out since early January. The street we were on has many restaurants and they were all packed.