Friday Food
 

As this is the canteen, I'd thought we'd have some food. At lunchtime myself and the stressed out secretary Marguritte are heading off for an Indian.

We'll probably have the following:



as a starter.

With:



as a main.

What are you having today? Stick em up or just talk about it!!!

going to chinatown

or parnell st as it used to be known

place called "Charming noodle"
they do two course lunch for between 7 and 9 euro - proper chinese noodles - delicious


this is shocking timewasting btw


but since i'm here i'm saying good luck to Athenry FC in the final of the FAI Junior Cup tomorrow
how many towns could produce club all-ireland finalists in hurling AND soccer within a year of each other.... legend

I'm going to Havana on Grantham street. My last day at work before getting married and we are going to Cuba on honeymoon... seems like a good choice. I'm gonna eat whatever and drink mojitos!

for that real mexican lowlife in Dublin try the Hacienda off Capel st towards the fruit markets.

A wonderful choice, that place is awesome.
Im drooling thinking of their chorizo stew :D

Can i just congratulate Sandraoh on her big day, and hope that she dosnt have to get to an airport by train on monday!!!!

Heard a rumour that they want Athenry FC's pitch for a major park and ride when the WRC opens.:)

As for lunch yesterday, I had a very nice slap up in Ardee, Co. Louth. It was comprised of roast beef, mash, roast potatoes, carrotts and cabbage! yea seriously, cabbage. A load of gravy on top and bobs your uncle. It was more like 4 O'Clock really.

Tonight I had Rendang Chicken. Ordered it from my Malaysian friends down the road. (Now they can cook) Its a Malaysian curry, but its a dry curry. No sauce as such, more like a paste. They offer it in the restaurant and hardly anyone touches it. Its not on the take away menu, but when your in the know.....:D I have it with sticky rice. Thats the way its meant to be served. Its fantastic.The customers in this particular restaurant think chinese food is chicken curry and chips or a fried noodle basket filled with a spicy chicken dish, if you think you're cool. The chef has his own specialties on the menu, (bean curd is great) but my man Chea says nobody is trying it except me and a few die hards:D

Celtic Tiger Ireland is not as sophisticated as we'd like to think.

Thank you for your contibutions everyone.

Join me later this week for more Friday Food!

Eh.....Thomas, if this was live TV, you're late for your slot and we've had to put out a cheap russian cartoon instead.

For me, today ended up being a no lunch day. But I've been informed by Louise thats its pancakes for breakfast tomorrow. (but that would be Saturday food)

Had a very nice nasi gorang (I've probably spelt that wrong) in the Indonesian restaurant around the corner from the office. Yummm.

Due to prior committments Friday food was handled by some wonderful guest presenters this week. Normal service next Friday where i shall be mostly eating Chinese. (the food, not the people. Actually Cannibalism with Tom would make a good thread on a rail users lobby message board)

Someone in the office has a birthday over the weekend, so we all got treated to sausage rolls this morning.

Yummm!

Every Friday we take it in turns to collect the Friday fry

Bacon & Fried Egg on thick toast dripping with butter and a little red sauce

I'm sure my arteries will suffer at some future point :p

Made major sale in the office today so we're all heading out for expensive lunch and beer not to return hopefully :D

And what a day to spend in a beer garden

I'm so there, in the biggest beer garden in Dublin, The Pav in TCD. Food service has been suspended to facilitate beer sales:D

Looking at 23 degrees

Today I shall be having..........................



washed down with................



and at 2.00pm i shall be pissing off!!!

I'll be all over the Pav today. And I'm not even in Trinity. Pah!

Just a leg of fish for me, the canteen always makes an effort for friday!:o

in honour of the world cup tonight I'm raiding Lidl for the following:



and



and

Noiw with recipies....
 

Just to hep all of ye who live in bedsits and that doodling on maps of dublin with Crayons and dreaming up the "diamond-shaped undergound, sometimes overground, along the canal and under the liffey metro/Very light rail" schemes i'd thought I'd take the time out to teach cooking.

Today, Scrambled Eggs.

You will need:

2 Eggs.
1 oz of Buttler
1 Bowl
1. Saucepan
1 Cooker


Method:

1. Crack open the eggs.
2. Discover that you cant and that you need a knife.
3. Amend list of things you will need to include a knife
4. Crack open the Eggs, remembering to empty them into the bowl
5. Add 1oz of butter.
6. Discover that you dont have a weighing scales
7. Decide that a teaspoon of butter is just about right.
8 Find out that you cant get the butter off the spoon
9. Use your finger to get the butter off the spoon into the bowl
10. Listen to your wife shouting at you for making a mess
11. Glimpse knife at the end of the table
12. Add some more butter using steps 6,7,8 just in case
13. Pick out bits of eggshell that are in the bowl
14. Wipe hand in trousers
15 Repeat steps 10 and 11
16. Discover you dont have a whisk, decide to use fork
17. Add fork to list of things you need
18 Mix in a vigourous manner, spilling the mixture on the table
19 Repeat steps 10 and 11, again
20, Kick the cat
21 Pour the mixture into the saucepan
22 Heat at the top number on the dial
23 Remember to keep stirring
24 Lose fork into the saucepan.
25 shout a lot, kick cat again if if comes near.
26 retreve fork, burning fingers
27 repreat steps 10,11 and 20
28 Endure wife telling you that you're useless
29 Sulk
30 Realise that the saucepan is burning
31 Get everything out of the saucepaan qucikly
32 Stare in disbelief at thge bottoom of the saucepan
33 repeat steps 10,11, 20 28 and 29
34 Shout at child you asked if you're cooking "like mammy now"
35 Shout at wife who shouts at you for step 34
36 throw Scrambled Egg and plate into bin
37 Say "satisfied now? Maybe i should be in the f@@@in pub like the rest of your family"
38 Watch as Wife storms out of house with children
39. Open can of beer, watch world cup
40 Smell burning.
41 Notice that the cooker is on fire, you put the saucepan back on it, didnt you?
42 Discover what a mess those poxy fire extingusers you get in Lidl make
43 Row with wife when she comes home discovering you've burned down the kitchen
44. Fill out insurance forms
45 endure ridicule from mother in law


So that's scrambled eggs.

If anyone else has a recipie they would like to contribute, please fell free to do so.

The poor cat.
Is this a first hand experience by any chance.
It sounds very vivid to be made up.
:D:D:D

Oh and I'm having an over priced BBQ salmon salad for my lunch

I'm off work with the plague. For lunch today I am having a bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese and chives. Pruchased from 'The Bakery', 3 Pudding row, temple bar. It promises to be the highlight of my day.

EDIT: I just read your scrambled eggs recipe now. There is definitely an easier (though less amusing) way to make them.

After last weeks lunch on a client unfortunately it is back to the liquid variety this week :(

The microwave method? That involves a structural engineer to be on-site and I thought it would be more of an advanced level of fine cuisine.

Don't put eggs in the microwave, CD's are much more spectaculer:cool:
(make sure the missus is watching big brother)

So whats for lunch today

I'm trying to steer clear of food for the day.
Had one or two too many pints last night and am sitting here with a pint of milk for the day :eek:

Will my secretary please collect the loot for my Bacon & Egg sandwich I collected them last week

Well, today I have an official engagement with the minister for justice (opening a courthouse). So today I'm teaching you all how to do a fry-up, as I will need one afterwards.

You will need:

1. Four Eggs
2. A packet of Rashers
3. A ring of Black Pudding
4. A ring of White Pudding
5. A packet of Sasauges
6. A packet of mushrooms
7. A frying pan
8. A cooker
9. A knife
10.Some oil

Method:

1. Place frying pan on cooker and add oil. Heat on top setting.
2. Open packet of rasers. It's an easy-open pack.
3. Discover "easy open" is some sort of wicked joke
4. Get sissors to open rashers packet
5. Add sissors to list
6. Take rashers and place them carefully on pan
7. Jump away from pan as you are hit by hot spitting oil
8. Open sasauge packet with sissors, cutting one sasuage in two
9. Cut sausages into eight and empty them onto pan
10. Notice that rashers have shriveled away to nothing.
11. Turn on Grill
12. Reply to wife asking how the mushrooms are going.
13. Lie
14. Get pot
15. Add pot to list of things you need
16. Rip open mushroom packet, cut mushrooms
17 Empty mushrooms into pot.
18 Put pot on cooker at high heat
19. Smell burning
20. Open grill
21 Observe fire in grill as there is another pan stored in there on fire
22. Say "jesus" at top of voice
23 Stare at hands
24 Notice that there is smoke also coming from pan on Cooker
25 Get yourself together, open window
26 Throw pan from Grill out of window.
27 Throw pan from cooker with rashers and sausages after it, decide on a grill
28 Go outside, get second pan back, put back on cooker, low heat.
29 Pick dirt off sauages
30. Crack open eggs onto pan
31. Relax.
32 Smell burning
33 Notice Mushrooms are burnt
34 Pour oil on mushrooms, swirl pot around a bit
35 Attempt to open rings of pudding
36 Cut top of packets, peel away outside plastic
37 Kick cat, who has just come in
38 Cut pudding into even slices, add to pan
39 Turn sausages and puddings regualrly
40 Retrieve burnt rashers from under eggs and place in grill
41 Get plates out and set table
42 Endure pityfull look from wife
43 Smell burning
44 Notice that the rashers are on fire, waft them whilst standing in wifes line of sight
45 turn off everything
46 Evenly dispense the food onto plates
47 Kick cat out of the way
48 Serve
49 Wife notices that the inner plastic is still on the pudding
50 Row with wife
51 Throw food into bin, along with plate

So that's the traditional fry.

Let's be carefull out there.

I see now where you went wrong.
There's not enough saturated fat in oil. You needed to use butter.
Or lard.

Or throw a few of last nights Burdocks chips in that kills em every time :D

Now with a real recipie.....
 

Veal with Blackened Sage Butter.

A very simple quick and stylis dish served a Jacket Potato and some Onion Relish.

Ingredients
Veal Steak, Thinly cut, about 4oz per person
Fresh sage leaves
Butter 200 grams
1 lemon.
Salt and white pepper

Place your veal on a piece of clingfilm and cover with another, bash it good with your weapon of choice until its about the thickness of say 2 pound coins. You don't have to be precise.

Heat up, a tablespoon of olive oil in a non stick frying pan on high. Place your seasoned veal in the pan and immediately turn off the heat, leave for 45 seconds and then turn it over. leave for 1 minute, then set aside under some foil.

Use the same pan and turn up the heat to high, when its really hot add the butter and sage leaves, when they are starting to brown add the lemon juice. BE CAREFUL! it will sizzle and spit, this process should take no more than 1 minute.

Add the juices from your meat to the sauce and nap the sauce over the meat serving immediately.

This dish really does benfit form keeping it simple and using only the best ingredients. If you like cook your veal a bit longer, but I like it rare, and more than 90 seconds a side will ruin about €7 worth of veal.

Speaking of food: I found a great pizza place: Apache's pizza. There's one on bachelors walk, they're a franchise.

What, and the cat doesn't get kicked even once?

I don't think they let cats into apache.....

Err ... no I think they forgot that part :D

There are loads around Dublin. There is one 5 minutes walk from me (Dame St - facing Georges) they never answer the phone there so I have to walk all the way there and all the way back. Good pizza though.


I've never had veal. I would imagine it tastes great but I can eat baby cows. It's like eating bambi in cow form with less muscle.

would you eat lamb Paul? I mean lambs are so much cuter than calves. and so mucher nicer than mutton.
Chickens are cuter and tastier than hens..

baby animals are just nicer.

i had indian in maloti on st william st, EUR 9 for starter main coffee, but I wanted some of what Thomas cooked. sounds delicious.

except foals. but we don't eat horse so I don't know if this backs or disproves my point.

[quote=colmd]would you eat lamb Paul? I mean lambs are so much cuter than calves. {/QUOTE]

It's the way veal is raised that puts me off. I eat lamb but I'm not mad on it. Too much like every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday of my childhood. Lamb kebab / indian rules though.

I know someone who has eaten dolphin. He is going to hell. :D

The brother eats strainge and interesting things when he buggers off around the world. surprised he hasnt admitted to canibalism yet.

I will scour the internet for some really offensive recipies for next Friday. Something with monkeys or gorillas, you know, illegal.