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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.

Road kill grouse were a staple in my family when I was a kid. There were a lot of suicidal grouse where I grew up in Scotland.

Last night, I was invited to a preview of a new restaurant owned by a friend of a friend. Basically, it is a simple 快餐 (kuài cān) or Chinese fast food restaurant. Simple stir fries for the working man or woman. However, this one has a gimmick. No chef! No cooks! Everything is cooked by this. It's a programmable robotic cooking machine with hundreds of recipes already installed, but which can be tweaked to the user's satisfaction. A couple of people were preparing ingredients which were then loaded into a tray at the top, the door closed and shortly later it 's ready to serve. We ate: Chicken with green and red bell peppers peppers and wood ear fungus. Mixed vegetables Soup Different chicken with bell peppers Stir fried cucumber Pork and Tofu Fried rice noodles Passion Fruit Wine The verdict. No thanks! The food was bland, underseasoned and boring, but then most fast food is. Bell peppers!! On the plus side, it wasn't greasy like so much of this food can be. We sent for a bowl of the local specialty from next door - Duck and snails in a spicy soup. Great stuff! Still, it was a fun and interesting experience, but not one to be repeated. I like my food to be cooked by someone with taste buds.

Bought a large pile of mixed dried wild mushrooms today. These will go in the emergency store. Oyster mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, chanterelles, almond mushrooms, cèpes, cordycep militaris, morels and bamboo pith mushrooms. All foraged in Yunnan province.

Yes. That's typical. Horrible.