Carvery Food

Funnily enough I worked in a Pub when doing my undergraduate in Dublin which was and is famous for it's carvery and it was nothing like the poster in post #166's fantasy (it is a satirical account, I know).

Primal cuts were delivered by a local butcher, fish was delivered by a well known fish mongers who used to have a shop on Baggot street, vegetables were delivered by a catering suppliers based in Smithfield and dry goods and sundries were delivered by Pallas Foods.

A team of about 5 chefs worked from about 8am baking fresh brown bread and deserts, prepping double breasted chickens, crowns of turkey, legs of lamb, shoulders of ham, whole sirloins of beef, filleting and portioning while salmon, cod, plaice, hake, etc. Making gigantic pots of beef, vegetable and chicken stock, making two fresh soups, one vegetable and one "soup of the day" which could be anything from tomato to mushroom to chicken, cutting fresh chips on a big lever operated "press" thing, peeling carrots, potatoes, onions and whatever other veggies needed prepping.

Everything they did was fresh, they even made their own biscuits to use as the base for the cheesecakes.

Still go there for grub the odd Sunday afternoon and watch whatever sport is being sported by sportsters.

Hey, I like to think of myself as a refined savage, thank you very much!

But in all seriousness, people on After Hours seriously like to be divisive on such absolute trivialities and paint 'the other side' into the most extreme charicature they possibly can. This thread is pretty endemic of the attitudes that are prevalent across AH as a whole, there is seemingly no middle ground and everyone is assigned one extreme or the other. What I'm trying to say here is that you folks wouldn't know nuance if it came up and bit you in the face!

Now I'm probably not the most refined person in the world when it comes to my tastes, but I adore Japanese, Indian, and Thai food especially. A good tandoori with some nice naan bread is hard to beat, and katsudon is just about the ultimate comfort food for me, it just doesn't get any better. I could waffle at length about all the awesome stuff I ate when I was in Japan, best food I've had in my life. I also love to cook, and I can do a good roast too, my girlfriend absolutely hated roast beef until I cooked it for her, because every other time she had it, it was overcooked and dry as a bone. I also had loads of people rave about my dark rum-basted ham that I cooked for Christmas dinner. Anyway, my point is you can appreciate loads of different foods and still appreciate a good carvery, it's not either or. Likewise, I can understand people not liking carvery and that doesn't make them a stuck-up hipster or whatever.

MrWalsh wrote: »

Far more importantly, you can enjoy a bit of Dan Brown while fully understanding its not great literature.

Or indeed, you can enjoy the north of Ibiza and it doesnt make you a beer swilling neanderthal who thinks he is experiencing exotic culture in the local Irish bar.

Certainly. I never read the books, but saw the Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons movies, they were some damn entertaining fluff for sure.

Links234 wrote: »

Hey, I like to think of myself as a refined savage, thank you very much!

But in all seriousness, people on After Hours seriously like to be divisive on such absolute trivialities and paint 'the other side' into the most extreme charicature they possibly can. This thread is pretty endemic of the attitudes that are prevalent across AH as a whole, there is seemingly no middle ground and everyone is assigned one extreme or the other. What I'm trying to say here is that you folks wouldn't know nuance if it came up and bit you in the face!

Now I'm probably not the most refined person in the world when it comes to my tastes, but I adore Japanese, Indian, and Thai food especially. A good tandoori with some nice naan bread is hard to beat, and katsudon is just about the ultimate comfort food for me, it just doesn't get any better. I could waffle at length about all the awesome stuff I ate when I was in Japan, best food I've had in my life. I also love to cook, and I can do a good roast too, my girlfriend absolutely hated roast beef until I cooked it for her, because every other time she had it, it was overcooked and dry as a bone. I also had loads of people rave about my dark rum-basted ham that I cooked for Christmas dinner. Anyway, my point is you can appreciate loads of different foods and still appreciate a good carvery, it's not either or. Likewise, I can understand people not liking carvery and that doesn't make them a stuck-up hipster or whatever.

Katsudon sounds very nice, is there anywhere in Ireland that makes a good one? I live near Dublin so travelling in is no hassle.

Huntergonzo wrote: »

Katsudon sounds very nice, is there anywhere in Ireland that makes a good one? I live near Dublin so travelling in is no hassle.

I don't know about Dublin, but there's a place in Galway called Kappa-Ya that makes an absolutely amazing katsudon, very authentic and as good as I've had in Japan. It's also something I cook myself the odd time, though not quite as good as I'd get it in the restaurant, it's still pretty damn tasty. Here's a good video if you wanna try:



Dashi stock and panko breadcrumbs can be picked up pretty cheap in most asian food shops

Dial Hard wrote: »

Jaws being one of the exceptions. The most boring book about a semi-sentient vicious man-eating shark I've ever read.

I've also heard people say that The Godfather was a much better movie than it was a book.

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