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Surf ‘n’ Irish Turf

My recipe at Open Source Food.

Perfect dinner

Steamed cod, pepper, fleur de sel, lemon juice, knob of butter. Crushed new potatoes with olive oil, crema di balsamico, salt, pepper and parmesan cheese. Took less than 15 minutes to prepare (I nuke the spuds in the microwave). Tasted like heaven. What's your favourite simple meal?

‘Hoi Tjie Fan Dai’ at A-Fusion

Anyone speak Chinese? I've checked tons of dim sum menus online, but I cannot find out what 'Hoi Tjie Fan Dai' means. That's what this pork (?) dish was called on the Dutch/Chinese menu. Tjie = Jee / Gee = Pork A-Fusion is a really nice place stuck between the mostly grisly ...

Dim sum at home

I bought a bamboo steam basket and a couple of trays of (frozen) dim sum from Toko Dun Yong on Gelderse Kade. Sieu Kaui, Ha Kau, Won Ton and Char Siu Pao. I'll pretend it's healthy. What beautiful days we're having. Long walks by the Amstel, sushi in Zuid, crazy voicemails ('Vy aren't ...

Udon and fish ball soup

I was unwell for most of the day, but once I recovered (having obtained my life saving Maxalt tablets from the chemist) I legged it into town for a trip to the chinese toko. Not because I needed anything. Just by way of entertainment. I bought fish balls and frozen ...

England just around the corner

Guess what I had for dinner? Pork pie. With a dab of brown sauce on the side. Guess what's in the fridge? Blackpudding and Kerrygold Irish butter.No, I didn't fly to London or Dublin today after work. I jumped on my bike to pick up something from the Hardware.nl shop ...

Order two sushi, get one for free?

My friends told me they went to Moshi Moshi, our new favourite sushi restaurant, yesterday and staff asked: 'Where's your friend?' Bwah! The chefs at Zushi, a sushi bar I frequent on weekends, usually say 'See you next Sunday'. I wonder if I can get a discount if I increase the frequency ...

Dog’s dinner

Hungry before going into the Stade de France in Paris, I stopped at one of the many, many food stands outside the stadium. They all looked the same and served the same food, none of it very healthy: French bread with assorted sausages and chips. You couldn't just get a bag of chips, ...

Corrigan says

Top chef Richard Corrigan (in between the ubiquitous swearing): 'C'mon, out some olive oil on it, yeh? They look as dry as a hoor's heart.' 'This is wild (rabbit) meat. It's... happy! Until somebody takes it...'

Sesame chocolate

I had black sesame ice cream at a Japanese restaurant here in Amsterdam the other day and though it had a hint of chocolate, unlike the white sesame and the green tea ice cream in the dessert. Mikan Moblog has some info on Japanese style choclates with a sesame filling.

November 19th 2008
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Bookmarks for November 18th through November 19th

These are my links for November 18th through November 19th: 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - MySpace.com - Tony Christie - UK - Pop / Rock - www.myspace.com/tonychristie - I really need to learn to prettify myspace pages properly. This looks really good. Facebook ...
November 19th 2008
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I’ll punch a donkey in the streets of Galway

Cast - Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Barbican Theatre, November 13, 14, 15 review to follow
November 18th 2008
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Bookmarks for November 17th through November 18th

These are my links for November 17th through November 18th: Ginger Anyhow: Text Messages - Embroidered text messages, mapping a relationship Marco Grob - Photographer - Beautiful portraits Steven Wells: Indie music could learn a lot from American Idol | Music | guardian.co.uk - "In real pop, pretty people who can't sing get ...
November 13th 2008
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Bookmarks for November 11th through November 13th

These are my links for November 11th through November 13th: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US Elections 2008 | 'Secret' Obama code name revealed - But known as POTUS to the rest of us. e-solex - want BBC NEWS | Health | 'Love handles' raise death risk - Ah well at ...
November 11th 2008
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Proudly presenting zie.nl

Zie.nl, the new Dutch video sharing site that I (and our team) have been working on for the last 4 months has just gone live. We had cake to celebrate. www.zie.nl Yes, we realise it's teal. No, we're not that keen on it either. Yes, we'll work on it.

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