Archive for December 9th, 2007
90-L-1944 attempted to murder my family today
Posted on December 9, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork.
The savage at the wheel of 90-L-1944 came within a hair’s breadth of killing me, all my children, my mother in law, all of those in an oncoming vehicle and everyone in his own vehicle 10 minutes ago.
This cretin who clearly rates his own life as worthless carried out a suicidal overtaking manouvre of my car just before Bandon with a stream of cars bearing down on us. If I hadn’t seen him in my side mirror and swerved into the road margin at the last second, there would have been a fatal three car collision.
This imbecile then immediately got stuck in 20 MPH town traffic.
If you spot this old grey Honda Prelude in West Cork, give it a wide berth, he may try to kill you too.
You may ask why I didn’t call the police. Do you think they would have done anything?
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Love food blogs? You’ll adore Gastronom.ie
Posted on December 9, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Food.
I have to apologise to Damien for not blogging this until now. He has put together one of those simple, beautifully executed ideas called Gastronom.ie. It collects all of the food writing from a set of Irish bloggers into one place. So if you are sick of bouncing around from blog to blog to blog and you really aren’t into this whole geeky RSS idea, then you’ll become addicted to this site.
It looks lovely and the development was done by the brilliant John Blackbourn who I would recommend to anyone who needs web development or design done. He has LouderVoice as very happy customers too.
Some of us are having a wee non-serious argument about wordplay on ie domains. Some think that only geeks get them and that a mainstream audience will always pronounce the dot. How would you say the following?
I’ll be honest, I never spotted the first wordplay but I did see it in the second two. You?
In any case, get yourself over to Gastronom.ie and check out some top class food writing.
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Tapenade Bistro on N7/N8
Posted on December 9, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Restaurants, Reviews.
This newish place is in the Midway FoodCourt, Portlaoise and is nearly successful in its attempt to do something a bit different.
I had to drive up to Dublin recently (having become over-used to the train) and stopped at Midway on the N7/N8 interchange to grab something to eat. I had spotted a newish place in there the last time I’d stopped for coffee and I thought I’d give it a try. They call it a “healthy bistro” which may actually put a lot of people off since there is plenty of “normal” stuff to eat.
The main things that they serve are three hot dishes, lots of salads and a variety of drinks including smoothies. Unfortunately the hot dishes did not look appetizing at all. They had meatballs in tomato sauce, sausages in gravy and burgers in gravy sitting in standard catering kitchen bain-marie trays. But they also had rice and mashed potatoes in the same setup. All looked untouched for hours. Having said that, the meatballs sounded nice so I went with that. No pasta, so I picked rice.
With that you get two salads and I went for a carrot one and a potato one. I also ordered a raspberry and mint smoothie and a latte. €18.50 all in.
The meatball and sauce was very nice (not as good as my own obviously 
) but as expected the rice was a dried up horror. The salads were extremely good and the smoothie was genuinely the best I have ever had. The background taste of mint was just perfect. Decent machine-based latte.
They could easily fix the carb problem by doing what I do at home. Cook up the rice (or pasta), drain and then run under an ice cold tap for several minutes until all heat is removed. Then when person orders (or kids arrive in), you pour boiling water over a portion in a sieve. No more claggy, shrivelled up, dried up carbs. I know there is a danger if you don’t do it properly with rice but it’s never been a problem for us.
This place really is a good idea. I still query the “healthy” marketing given the target audience and they have to fix the way they do carbs. I hope it succeeds because I’d happily make it my default stop on the Cork-Dublin route.
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