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My apologies. I have corrected the link. Thanks for letting me know.

I'm not a great pizza eater, but did buy these, mainly for amusement value, but found them ideal for pizza cutting

As promised, Ｉhave updated.

Yes. Nothing if not resourceful. The joys of youth!

This wasn't my dinner but I thought some of you might be interested. The 20-year-old daughter of a friend is studying in university in China. Like almost all college students here, she lives in a dormitory about 30 feet by 12 feet - with 7 other students. They have a bed (bunks), a small space for their belongings and a table for study. There are lavatorial and shower facilities, but there are no cooking facilities. Institutional food in canteens. Last night, she sent me a picture of an illicit hotpot dinner they prepared in their dormitory (one of them having smuggled in a portable induction cooker and an electric pan for rice). I have sent her a message asking her what everything is in those containers, but it is the weekend and she has a part-time job. I'll edit if and when she gets back to me. Edit: I have now been duly informed that the front left bowl, marked below, is chicken and coriander/cilantro. The two bowls top right are various metballs (pork, beef, shrimp, fish). Everything else is vegetables. This is neither meat or vegetable, but looks like fun.

Thick chicken soup with rice, leeks, garlic, ginger, carrot and chilli. Served with a piece of baguette (shop bought) for the holy ritual of dunking. Followed by cheddar cheese and ham sandwich with home-made spicy mango relish and the same baguette.

De-boned a couple or three chicken legs and cut the meat into bite size chunks. Browned them with garlic, ginger and chilli, then bunged them delicately into the slow cooker. I had half a can of anchovies left over from breakfast, so they went in too. At the time I was thinking to have this with rice, local style, but for some reason decided to go with simple boiled spuds. Added some okra to the slow cookering chicken then ate it. Then had seconds. Happy mouth.

Looks great. Stuffed with...?

Scotch Woodcock. (Scrambled duck eggs with anchovies - on toast).

Another roadside dinner. A spicy hotpot stock with pork and bean sprouts. Extras of sliced beef and pork meatballs. Rice.

Simple but satisfying. Penne with tuna, chilli, garlic and ginger.

I don't need a calendar to know where in the year I am. Right now, it's hotpot season and this shows in this month's leaflet.

I love me a good sausage roll, but can't find them here. Chinese sausages aren't what I want, so I have to make my own sausage meat from fatty pork. But then I have the spicing problem. The spices and herbs I want just aren't available here, so I just use black pepper, sometimes chilli powder, maybe some nutmeg. If I'm feeling industrious I may make pastry, but usually buy frozen (not easy to find - I only know one shop which carries it, but they take forever to restock when it sells out, so I usually buy tons of it (which is why they run out!)) I never pre-cook the meat. Bake from raw. They only get minimally greasy and fat is flavour! Sausage rolls need grease! Flavourless, dry sausage meat in pastry is not what I want.

I always make mapo doufu with ground beef. That is the more traditional way in Sichuan.

Here is another recipe for coca cola wings, written by a Chinese teenager as a college exercise.

Yeah. Winged it. I've been flapping for years!

Pork marinated with garlic, ginger, chilli and Shaoxing wine. Stir fried with mushrooms, spinach and scallions and finished with a little soy sauce and sesame oil. Rice.

I haven't decided if this was a watery fish stew or a thick fish soup but it was lunch.

I had a fairly substantial, if uninteresting lunch today, so this evening a spinach omelette (duck eggs) and chips sufficed. With a beer, so all four food groups are covered. Protein, carbs, veg and alcohol.

This tasted a lot better than it looks. It's a sort-of Maghreb inspired dish of chicken with lentils, garlic, ginger, coriander seed, cumin, lemon zest and scallions. With rice and garlicky spinach.

Indeed it is, but I've never seen so much being used, and I spent a lot of time in Ireland when I was younger.

Way too much sugar.

Steak, kidney and mushroom pie without the pie, because of the much mourned decease of my oven. Still, an OK dinner. Added chilli and Thai fish sauce. Once again, I neglected to photograph the side dish - cauliflower. I was too hungry to hang around taking pictures for your gratification while everything got cold!

My freezer is literally, 100%, completely, without reservation EMPTY! Time to start working towards overfilling it again, I think.

It's certainly common. All my local supermarkets have it, both fresh and frozen. I only buy the fresh. I guess it's Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus).