The Dossing Times

Chicken and Leek Stroganoff
It feels a bit of a cheat to even call this a recipe, instead its moreso a suggestion of a tasty combination of flavours to create a nice dinner inexpensively.

Take a washed leek, slice and chop, then add to a pan with warming olive oil, a sliver of butter and a small [...]

Exclusive Review: Star Trek released Friday May 8
Through work on TV and the big screen JJ Abrams has been touted, whether accurately or not, as a Hollywood golden boy, who can market, produce and direct profitably. The announcement last year that Abrams had been handed the reigns of a new Star Trek movie was met [...]

The Sunday Telegraph ran a story on Sunday about
The Solar Orbiter will be the size of a family car and will be equipped with a suite of instruments designed to map the Sun’s surface while also measuring the chemical and magnetic environment around it.
It will use a two-metre-wide heat shield, made of layers of coated [...]

From the London Times
Emerick wasn’t the engineer on the track – the recording didn’t begin at Abbey Road – but he was called in to fix problems caused by technical deficiencies at Trident Studios.
He notes that when he listened to the mix, in the third verse:
Right between the lines “The minute you let her under [...]

What a silly but cool little site. Each new day brings a new sandwich, its cross section showing its fillings – distinctly American, with lots of layers, cured meets and cheese aka the stuff of great sandwiches.

‘Subway’ is the closest you can get to these types of sandwiches in Ireland without paying artisan food shop [...]

Thanks to Nylers for bringing this to my attention.

The motivation for this list is the new show ‘The Mentalist’, which began showing on RTE 1 last week. The show seems to be going for ‘Murder She Wrote’ style complexity, with the murderer easily identifiable from the first 10 minutes. ‘The Mentalist’ is played by Simon Baker, who you may know from ‘The Guardian’ [...]

Honest.

Tuathals comic above looks somewhat like the scenario I was in last Friday night, in that I was talking to a friend of mine Aoife in a club in Cork while we looked down over the dance floor. Of course the comparison ends there because I wasn’t trying to have a crack off Aoife and [...]