Dinner tonight

[xiphias]

So, we went out for dinner at the pub in Malden Center today. We got there just about four, so they still had the Sunday brunch menu available, so I had a full Irish breakfast for dinner. It was really good, but I've got heartburn now.

If you're a vegetarian or keep kosher all the time, rather than just at home as we do, you may not want to read this. . . I think just reading the description will raise your cholesterol. . .

Three kinds of sausage (white pudding, black pudding, and sausage), two pieces of Irish bacon (which wasn't strips, but rather sort of rounds), hash brown potatoes, two eggs (sunny side up), baked beans, toast, grilled tomato, grilled mushrooms (which I gave to Lis, 'cause I don't like fungus).

I think the waitress (who is Irish) was a bit surprised to see how thoroughly I cleaned my plate -- it was a LOT of food. And, well, I guess she was a bit surprised that I liked the black pudding so much. It was really, really good. Lots of nutmeg. So now I know that nutmeg goes well with blood.

Comments

[ailbhe]

We're going to have that for dinner (smaller portion sizes, but same items) one day this week. I forget which day though. It's a fairly regular food for us, though we only fry the eggs, and neither of us eats mushrooms.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I just got the eggs fried. Is "sunny side up" an Americanism? It just means "eggs fried on one side without being turned over to cook on the other side."

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

It was only when I spent time with someone who'd been in the States that I discovered there was any other way of frying eggs *than* sunny side up.. over easy was a new concept. Most UK folks just automatically mean sunny side without specifying (*grumble* bloody americans with all their menu choices, even makes ordering eggs a complex task *grumble* ::grin:: What can i say, SubWay scared me with all those options when I first tried one over here! )

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

do they have portable defibrillators at each table?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Naw, but it's RIGHT across the street from a fire station, so response times are good.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I adore black pudding.

[vonbeck.livejournal.com]

That sounds real good. We need to go there together some Sunday.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Maybe Dee, too, if she's in town over a weekend. She's Irish, it's her native cuisine!

"my usual"

[breadd.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it, at a certain cafe around the corner from my house.

I only get there once every few weeks.

And they have lots of other wonderful things on the menu, but I almost
always get the Irish breakfast.

No way I could ever keep kosher.