The weekend involved the requisite drinking and traditional Irish music, but as this is a food blog, I thought I should share the trip's "culinary highlights":
- Dinner in Knightstown on Saturday. One of the menu items in the newly-opened restaurant was 'Surprise Fish steamed in a bag'. The Editor asked the waiter what the fish was, assuming this was just a cute way of describing the fish of the day. Turns out the dish really is a surprise and requires a small leap of faith from the unsuspecting diner. Ed ordered the lamb.
- Dinner in Dingle on Sunday evening. The seafood chowder, delicious and generously portioned, came with a bonus wad of kitchen paper (?!) hovering near the bottom of the bowl. The maitre'd was unfazed by this. I ordered a lobster which arrived at the table lopsided and with 2 mismatched claws (one was huge and the other tiny) so that it looked like Frankenstein's aquatic monster. The Editor had 'crab au gratin' which was coated in small pieces of kitchen sponge masquerading as breadcrumbs. You would have thought we'd learnt our lesson by now, but Ed dared to order dessert - a 'tiramisu' which was in fact a trifle made with coffee and served with a side of jam. Why? Who cares - by that point we were utterly beyond caring.
- Breakfast in our Dingle B&B this morning. Our friendly host believed on starting the day the Irish way ... a bowl of porridge drenched in Balileys. Certainly one way to get your heart started. And where do you go from booze at breakfast...??
Plumpcious over and out.
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