The Dossing Times

There will be no Top 6 because frankly I’m tired and drank too much last night. Had there been a list it would have been linked to  this week marking the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. In doing the research I would have spent a good chunk of time browsing the excellent coverage [...]

At a going away party on Saturday night the people were abuzz about one thing – the freakin’ gorgeous dip. People were scraping what they could from the bottom of the bowl. The recipe below comes from Kelly, a Canadian chick, I tried to dance poorly with in Roddys in Rathmines after the dip had gone. I can’t [...]

Each week on Market Kitchen, guests and chefs are offering the definitive way to make some popular dishes. There is to be a list of ten dishes compiled, 7 ‘perfect’ recipes have been agreed so far, namely gravy which I cannot make, gratin dauphinois, hollandaise sauce, bechamel, cream sauce, humus and mayonnaise. Read the recipes [...]

I had a tasty, hangover diffusing breakfast served up on Saturday morning, with my mate announcing ’sausage, egg, toast – done’. Its first worth noting that the breakfast was done without a bit of hassle – a fry up always drives me to a meltdown, and I never tackle fried eggs – so good job [...]

So asking one of the lads how he was going to be spending his weekend a few weeks back he informed me, he and his lady would be doing some cooking on the Saturday. This I felt was a good answer. Of late they have taken up the noble challenge of building on their cooking [...]

My route home sees me passing a decent butcher, an Asian store, the stalls of Moore Street where the ladies are happy to unload discount veg to me. At one point I went to a stall for two tomoatoes and came away with 10 tomatoes, 8 peppers and it being the time of year 3 [...]