Friday Food

[Thomas J Stamp]

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!!!

[Donal Quinn]

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

[sandraoh]

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!

[CSL]

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

[Mark Hennessy]

Originally Posted by sandraoh

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!

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

[Thomas J Stamp]

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

[Derek Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Donalq

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

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..... 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

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

[Thomas J Stamp]

Thank you for your contibutions everyone.

Join me later this week for more Friday Food!

[Derek Wheeler]

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)

[James Shields]

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

[James Shields]

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

Yummm!

[Kevin K Kelehan]

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

[colmoc]

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

And what a day to spend in a beer garden

[Mark Gleeson]

Originally Posted by colmoc

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

Looking at 23 degrees

[Thomas J Stamp]

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



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



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

[bigjim]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

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

Looking at 23 degrees

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

[Thomas J Stamp]

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



and



and

[Thomas J Stamp]

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.

[colmoc]

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


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

[PaulM]

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.