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03 May 2012
Making a mini hamburger meal, including fries and cola, using a kit that you just ad water to. It's oddly fascinating. According to the YouTube uploader:
(1) It is edible. No artificial colours. No preservatives. This kit contains pork and chicken ingredients. 96 calories.
(2) It tastes like real hamburger, bread, cheese, ketchup, french fries and cola. It was delicious.
(3) It cost me 258 yen.
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29 Mar 2012
I was in Brother Hubbard, the really lovely new cafe on Capel St (a little further down from Pantibar, on the other side just before the Luas line) earlier today to have a perfect espresso macchiato and a really delicious carrot cake. It only opened last week, and has started slowly, only doing drinks and a sweet menu - scones, cakes, pasteries... the brownies are absolutely sinfully delicious - but they are fully up and running with the savoury menu also from next week. (I saw them test running some colourful and fresh looking salads)
The cafe is the baby of Garret and James (above in the aprons) who after traveling and cooking their way around the world, from South East Asia, to the Middle East, to Australia and decided to open their own place in Dublin. The influence of their travels is evident but not in a heavy handed way - among the carrot cakes and brownies and lemon cakes, there are butter and orange blossom scones, Australian Jammy Lamingtons (sponge squares with jam and cream filling rolled in chocolate and coconut), raspberry & apple & rose homemade lemonade. Mmmmmhhhh!
Anygay, while I was in there today, I was one of a few tables, mostly people on their own, reading the paper or working on something, so it was quiet when a stylish woman came in and started oohing and ahhing over the pasteries and chatting with James behind the counter. She was full of questions. She had an accent and dark looks I couldn't quite place but she was particularly interested in James' Middle Eastern travels and cooking influence so I supposed she must have some connection with that part of the world.
Then she asked, "So are you two actual brothers?" James hesitated slightly, clearly wondering how to break it to her. "Or just good friends?" she asked. Everyone looked up from their coffe and papers. James opened his mouth, but still hadn't quite decided how to answer her. But he didn't need to. Everyone in the place cracked up laughing. In fact, we howled! A business man at the table beside me answered firt: "Oh they're very good friends! Very close they are!" before adding something about this being the 21st century.
It shouldn't have even been that funny but I guess it was the fact that it clearly hadn't even entered her head when you'd think that James and Garrett, in their matching natty aprons, standing proudly over their tray of orange blossom infused scones might have given her a hint.
Anyway, if you are near Capel St, check out Brother Hubbard. And the adorable mop-topped Bruno makes a perfect coffee.
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09 Feb 2012
Even before we opened Pantibar, Capel St was always one of my favourite parts of Dublin. I love the streets livliness and it's great mix. The old traditional Capel St enterprises - the hardware stores, the furniture and upholstry shops, the workwear and uniform shops, the antique and second hand shops, the camping shops and Army & Navy stores, the rubber stamp shop, the model making shop, the tailors, Romano's the great family Italian restaurant, Fuscardi's the chipper... - cheek by jowl with the newer shops, the myriad Asian restaurants, the Eastern European supermarkets, the Polish cake shop, the sex shops... Capel St always feels like a world unto itself. Anything you want is available on the street, and there's a great energy about it.
And while Capel St, like the rest of the city has certainly felt the recession with closures and some empty shop fronts, it never feels defeated or down because new enterprises crop up all the time.
One of the newest is Musashi, a really delicious new Japanese restaurant that opened a few weeks ago a few doors down from Pantibar. And not only is the food great (they do it all - sushi, noodles, tempura, dumplings, katsu, rice dishes...) it's also cheerrfully priced and the interior is really cute. And it's BYOB so you can come out of there stuffed and well watered for €20.
Check it out.
Here's a few pics from when I was there the other night with a large group.
Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough off the mark with the camera before the beautiffuly presented sushi platter was demolished!
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18 Aug 2011
If you are around the Temple Bar area of Dublin this evening there is an open invitation to the official opening of Momma's Place, the new cafe/restaurant in the Filmbase Building on Curved Street. Momma's Place will be helping to support the GCN Forever campaign (which in turn supports Ireland's long-running free gay community magazine, Gay Community News) and has been planned and set up by the people behind the successful Jo'burger and Crackbird restaurants.
Tonights launch kicks off at 7pm, and will feature performances by the reigning Alternative Miss Ireland, Mangina Jones, and her partner in cryme, Chyne Wine. There'll also be free nibbles and wine so sounds like a plan.
And here's Momma's Place on Twitter.
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25 Jul 2011
Is this the best cake ever. Arguably. (Note how the configuration of squares is different in each slice - that's the kind of nerdy detail your average cake nerd would have let slide) If you want to make your own Rubik's Battenburg, here's how.
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27 Jun 2011
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14 Jan 2011
Making croissants, pain au chocolat, danish pastries.... Yum!
(via MeFi)
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07 Jan 2011
Adorable 'cheeky chappie' Korean street vendor shows some German tourists how he makes a lump of honey into 16,000 tiny strings of honey in a couple of minutes, to make a traditional Korean sweet called "honrey skein" or "Kings Desert".
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14 Dec 2010
I did not know that.
(thanks Niall)
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06 Nov 2010
I, like almost every other blogger in the known universe, has at one point blogged about the fact that McDonalds burgers don't rot, as proven by a number of artists and foodies (here, here, or here, for example). It's a good story, and confirms our worst fears about fast food in general, and the biggest of all the fast food giants in particular. See? The burger isn't even real food, and is pumped full of all sorts of chemicals and preservatives.
However, more than a good story, I like real science (even if it doesn't confirm my worst fears), and, shamed as I am to admit it, I also like a cheese burger from my local 24hr McDonalds occasionally when I'm on my way home at 3am after a few beers.
So this makes me feel a bit better.
Turns out McDonalds burgers do rot, and the reason the burgers used in the examples above didn't rot is simply explained and has nothing to do with fake meat or preservatives.
You can read through the fairly exhaustive experiment for yourself, but if you're too lazy, I'll break down the main points for you:
Basically, a small simple burger (as against say, a Big Mac) left out in the open air, dries out very quickly, before it has a chance to begin to rot. If the burger is sealed in a plastic bag that retains the moisture, it will rot. As will a larger burger left out in the air. You will get the exact same results with homemade, organic, no-preservative burgers of similar sizes.
"The burger doesn't rot because it's small size and relatively large surface area help it to lose moisture very fast. Without moisture, there's no mold or bacterial growth. Of course, that the meat is pretty much sterile to begin with due to the high cooking temperature helps things along as well. It's not really surprising. Humans have known about this phenomenon for thousands of years. After all, how do you think beef jerky is made?"
So while I will still be trying to resist the call of that fatty, unnecessary, nutritionally pretty useless, and ethically dubious (that's a whole other issue) cheese burger next time I'm on my way home at 3am, if I do succumb to it's stodgy charms, at least I won't worry about being preserved from the inside out anymore.
(link - via BoingBoing)
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