Friday 29 January 2010
Saturday 25 July 2009
Wednesday 8 July 2009
Kilbeggan, Co Westmeath
Kilbeggan is a pleasant little town on the River Brosna situated on the main Galway/Athlone road. Its name is derived from Saint Bacan who founded a monastery in the town in the 6th century. Famous for Lockes Distillery, the oldest distillery in Ireland founded 1757, now a museum.
Friday 26 June 2009
Venue for the meeting
.....Cafe,: Venue for the meeting. The cafe facilities ideal for hosting meetings to a new customer, increasingly demanding. The public demand quality products and services in a warm and welcoming environment. .....Cafe has adapted their management to this new reality, inside and outside.
Comfort, light, Internet, privacy, and parking.
Some of the facilities we provide to our customers. We are positioned as the most radical in terms of services. Indeed, in recent years, the coffee shops have established a niche market itself, becoming a segment that offers many opportunities and we are here to provide.
.....Cafe offers a greater variety of products, with our own techniques, an outstanding menu of coffees combined with a warm musical atmosphere salads, Panini, tonics, novel non-alcoholic beverages, tea loose. and much more.!!!
Monday 25 May 2009
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Monday 18 May 2009
Sample of Menu
Loft Mixed Grilled
Rack of pork, Rack of Lamb, Sausage, black Pudding, grilled red peppers,
ring onions, saute peas
Served with French potatoes
€12.95
Chicken Countryside
Chicken Breast grilled, stuffed with mozzarella and tomatoes topped
with Cream Sauce and strips of ham
Served with vegetables and potatoes
€12.95
Catch of the day
Fresh Fillet of Cod in batter served with chips
€10.95
Steak
Premium Irish Striploin Steak 8 oz
with pepper sauce or garlic butter, Served with vegetables and potatoes
€13.95
Sunday 17 May 2009
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Sunday 3 May 2009
The espresso
From: Pasqualino Marchese
The espresso
The coffee should be of latest generation and preferably manuals. The fully automatic sometimes do not understand some things ...!
Synthetically a good coffee should be obtained when grinding the beans to retain all the aromatic properties. Must have persistent taste and creamy appearance and reddish color bruno body.
Involves a quick little taste, a poor cremita and clear, without a body. Extraction eventually yield results with very bitter taste, but with a poor cremita very dark, almost burnt, with little aroma.
The water temperature of 88 to 92 º C is ideal for working with most of the mixtures on the market. The normal time of extraction is about 25 seconds with the temperature and pressure above a dose of 7 grams for a single coffee or two is 14 to 8 to 10 atmospheres.
Mixtures of different varieties of coffee or a species that takes account of the seller to provide the best taste and aroma and tenor just caffeine, while no point on the price, is their real secret. Are years of research and experimentation for each application and method to extract a good coffee. Taking care of just grinding, fine or coarse, slow or fast, is also a matter of experience, up to date with more or less moisture influences.
Water plays an important and fundamental role in preparing a good cup of coffee: the softener based on ion exchange resin can generally be regenerated with sodium chloride, is essential. Avoid fouling in pipes of the machine, in its boiler and allows the use of water with an adequate hardness. A water softener or cleaner that services a machine that spent about three thousand monthly coffees, it must also be regenerated with the same period, with two kilos of salt.
This whole "story" would not do anything behind the counter is not a taker understood the anger over retunda coffee, which can alter the position of the last server, which is affectionately cup infusion customer is having to endure the evaluations of a novice or a sick parishioner who wants to customize the preparation.
After all that evidence in this small and superficial explanation, concludes that drinking at last, a good cup of espresso is a combination between science and art, or at least craft. Can not enter a sanctuary of light coffee and request an "ordinary cafe. If you are not willing to take a good coffee, order a glass of warm water ... And it!
The espresso
The coffee should be of latest generation and preferably manuals. The fully automatic sometimes do not understand some things ...!
Synthetically a good coffee should be obtained when grinding the beans to retain all the aromatic properties. Must have persistent taste and creamy appearance and reddish color bruno body.
Involves a quick little taste, a poor cremita and clear, without a body. Extraction eventually yield results with very bitter taste, but with a poor cremita very dark, almost burnt, with little aroma.
The water temperature of 88 to 92 º C is ideal for working with most of the mixtures on the market. The normal time of extraction is about 25 seconds with the temperature and pressure above a dose of 7 grams for a single coffee or two is 14 to 8 to 10 atmospheres.
Mixtures of different varieties of coffee or a species that takes account of the seller to provide the best taste and aroma and tenor just caffeine, while no point on the price, is their real secret. Are years of research and experimentation for each application and method to extract a good coffee. Taking care of just grinding, fine or coarse, slow or fast, is also a matter of experience, up to date with more or less moisture influences.
Water plays an important and fundamental role in preparing a good cup of coffee: the softener based on ion exchange resin can generally be regenerated with sodium chloride, is essential. Avoid fouling in pipes of the machine, in its boiler and allows the use of water with an adequate hardness. A water softener or cleaner that services a machine that spent about three thousand monthly coffees, it must also be regenerated with the same period, with two kilos of salt.
This whole "story" would not do anything behind the counter is not a taker understood the anger over retunda coffee, which can alter the position of the last server, which is affectionately cup infusion customer is having to endure the evaluations of a novice or a sick parishioner who wants to customize the preparation.
After all that evidence in this small and superficial explanation, concludes that drinking at last, a good cup of espresso is a combination between science and art, or at least craft. Can not enter a sanctuary of light coffee and request an "ordinary cafe. If you are not willing to take a good coffee, order a glass of warm water ... And it!
A history of coffee II
A history of coffee
From: Pasqualino Marchese
Influences.
In fact you can not talk about history before 1400, because nothing has been written. We can consider that in the West, the marketing and see it today, began with a "Café" opened in London by a so-called Pasqua Rose. In the British Museum there is a curious propaganda leaflet printed by him on the virtues of drinking coffee. "
Coffee Shop: I want to emphasize that this sanctuary was in public life and political transformation of the seventeenth-century England: shaping the parties' Whig and Tory, "the law of habeas corpus, was the era of Hobbes, the philosopher of the restoration, the revival of religion, the formulation of the fundamental principles of modern democracy in the world. In "Greek Coffee" in the "Rainbow" in the "Will" between Bow Street and Convent Garden, the "Saint James", there are destinations discussed political, social, economic, literary, artistic. In the "Pubs" condenses the most diverse society: Oxford and Cambridge students, clergy, nobles, powerful businessman or simply rubicund drunk ....
Unfortunately, after the custom of coffee would be abandoned altogether and replaced by tea. The English Company of the West Indies, to work for their interests, organized an effective propaganda for the introduction of the consumption of tea in Britain. And he succeeded. Tea replaced coffee and also was considered the British national drink. Even our friend Rose Pasqua things started to go wrong. So he moved from London to Holland, a paradise of free ideas, quickly spreading the habit of coffee. A number of establishments were opened in Amsterdam, Harlan, The Hague and elsewhere. A teacher of Dutch painting, he created impressive scenes in his paintings, capturing the inner life of a "Cafe Italiano" at the time. The sudden expansion of coffee to Germany, Italy, Austria, deserves a very detailed story, but ...
Is due to the Company of the West Indies to leave the merit the first outbreaks of coffee in the then French Guiana, which was the basis for future coffee from Brazil.
We already know how people are fun, sighs a home, preparing a revolution in the cafes of the time ... and the coffee was reserved an important role in the history of the emerging nations of the North. John Smith (no other name could be ...), founder of the Jamestown colony and Virginia, was the one who introduced coffee in America, in the early seventeenth century. In the May Flower, the Pilgrims, brought over pylons and mortars to dust grains of toasted Rubiaceae. The Boston riots of 1773, which marked the beginning of the liberation of the colony, had great effects on the growth in consumption of coffee, because people wanted to get back to the tea, drink of the colonizer. The George Washington coffee trade began its golden years, while in 1808, in Boston, the largest stock market rose for the World Cafe at the time: the Exchange Coffee House. " In 1817 this building was given a banquet at James Monroe, known for his doctrine whose motto was: America for Americans. But the first to be reported, emerged in New York, the Exchange Coffee House of New York "and later replaced by the" Merchant's Coffee "in the corner of Wall Street and Water Street. In this building on April 23, 1789, George Washington, first elected president of United States, received the congratulations and greetings from the authorities of the city and its people. In that bag was also installed the first bank and the first New York Stock Exchange. Coffee consumption was an issue and especially when the Patriot Act stamp irritated minds of all Americans, preparing for the uprising and subsequent independence. Constitution signed Pennsylvania and other colonies of New England sisters joined the "boycott" against giving the consumption of tea black coffee with enthusiasm y. .. patriotism. In Philadelphia coffee is fermented movement that culminated in the Declaration of Rights. "
I could go, and I would like, on pages and pages, counting on the impact of coffee on the history of Civilization, but I know that send me to hell ... If you have not already!
Turn to the important thing: having an idea, a reference, a parameter of what we call a coffee and how to do it at home or in a cafeteria. Not everything is black is oil or coffee ... This may be another long story, but I will do the impossible to be brief.
From: Pasqualino Marchese
Influences.
In fact you can not talk about history before 1400, because nothing has been written. We can consider that in the West, the marketing and see it today, began with a "Café" opened in London by a so-called Pasqua Rose. In the British Museum there is a curious propaganda leaflet printed by him on the virtues of drinking coffee. "
Coffee Shop: I want to emphasize that this sanctuary was in public life and political transformation of the seventeenth-century England: shaping the parties' Whig and Tory, "the law of habeas corpus, was the era of Hobbes, the philosopher of the restoration, the revival of religion, the formulation of the fundamental principles of modern democracy in the world. In "Greek Coffee" in the "Rainbow" in the "Will" between Bow Street and Convent Garden, the "Saint James", there are destinations discussed political, social, economic, literary, artistic. In the "Pubs" condenses the most diverse society: Oxford and Cambridge students, clergy, nobles, powerful businessman or simply rubicund drunk ....
Unfortunately, after the custom of coffee would be abandoned altogether and replaced by tea. The English Company of the West Indies, to work for their interests, organized an effective propaganda for the introduction of the consumption of tea in Britain. And he succeeded. Tea replaced coffee and also was considered the British national drink. Even our friend Rose Pasqua things started to go wrong. So he moved from London to Holland, a paradise of free ideas, quickly spreading the habit of coffee. A number of establishments were opened in Amsterdam, Harlan, The Hague and elsewhere. A teacher of Dutch painting, he created impressive scenes in his paintings, capturing the inner life of a "Cafe Italiano" at the time. The sudden expansion of coffee to Germany, Italy, Austria, deserves a very detailed story, but ...
Is due to the Company of the West Indies to leave the merit the first outbreaks of coffee in the then French Guiana, which was the basis for future coffee from Brazil.
We already know how people are fun, sighs a home, preparing a revolution in the cafes of the time ... and the coffee was reserved an important role in the history of the emerging nations of the North. John Smith (no other name could be ...), founder of the Jamestown colony and Virginia, was the one who introduced coffee in America, in the early seventeenth century. In the May Flower, the Pilgrims, brought over pylons and mortars to dust grains of toasted Rubiaceae. The Boston riots of 1773, which marked the beginning of the liberation of the colony, had great effects on the growth in consumption of coffee, because people wanted to get back to the tea, drink of the colonizer. The George Washington coffee trade began its golden years, while in 1808, in Boston, the largest stock market rose for the World Cafe at the time: the Exchange Coffee House. " In 1817 this building was given a banquet at James Monroe, known for his doctrine whose motto was: America for Americans. But the first to be reported, emerged in New York, the Exchange Coffee House of New York "and later replaced by the" Merchant's Coffee "in the corner of Wall Street and Water Street. In this building on April 23, 1789, George Washington, first elected president of United States, received the congratulations and greetings from the authorities of the city and its people. In that bag was also installed the first bank and the first New York Stock Exchange. Coffee consumption was an issue and especially when the Patriot Act stamp irritated minds of all Americans, preparing for the uprising and subsequent independence. Constitution signed Pennsylvania and other colonies of New England sisters joined the "boycott" against giving the consumption of tea black coffee with enthusiasm y. .. patriotism. In Philadelphia coffee is fermented movement that culminated in the Declaration of Rights. "
I could go, and I would like, on pages and pages, counting on the impact of coffee on the history of Civilization, but I know that send me to hell ... If you have not already!
Turn to the important thing: having an idea, a reference, a parameter of what we call a coffee and how to do it at home or in a cafeteria. Not everything is black is oil or coffee ... This may be another long story, but I will do the impossible to be brief.
A history of coffee
-text translated into English-
From: Pasqualino Marchese
Legends
The fable of the shepherd Ethiopian Kaldi, opens the legendary home of coffee. The idyllic boy was with his flock, in wetlands, refreshed by the stage, watching the wanderings of each of your kids. But some were more anxious than others ... spent so many nights tormented by the fact, until you said one day, the servants of God, some monks from a nearby monastery. The wise men came quickly to the conclusion that the fruits of some branches which were eagerly eaten by animals caused a state of euphoria. To see the monks took the risk to develop an infusion with the fruits and branches of the shrub in question and noticed with great pleasure that the long and tedious vigils were transformed into joyful and pleasant duty.
The Muslims in turn awarded the discovery of the virtuous qualities of coffee a legendary founder of the town of Moka, Omar doctor, who sentenced to exile in Ousab, together with his followers, who knows by whom misdeeds. By not allowing starvation tried to eat the fruits of a tree that was abundant in the region. The miracle did keep alive Omar, that years later, returning to their land, causing much wonder that it has not been killed, not only it, but what worshiped as a saint and coffee while he conquered the city and the country.
Christians could not be left behind, with its legend divinized, being nothing less than Christ ... Fruit of the caféLento and tired, thirsty and mocked, carrying the heavy wood of the cross, climbing Golgotha, on the side of the road there were some facilities that are not used to anything, not giving fruit. But its leaves large, dark green and concave, had stored the dew of last night ... A slight breeze brings the branches of the Nazarene to the face and splashed water on his wounds and mouth, alleviating the pain and thirst. But a sheet back with three drops of blood, which were transformed into fruit to soften the hearts and palates of the inhabitants of the earth. The soldier was a whiplash of the continuing ordeal of the Messiah, but all parties did a miracle: the wretched bushes and stood cheerful and full of beautiful fruits ... It was the coffee that was being shown to the world!
From: Pasqualino Marchese
Legends
The fable of the shepherd Ethiopian Kaldi, opens the legendary home of coffee. The idyllic boy was with his flock, in wetlands, refreshed by the stage, watching the wanderings of each of your kids. But some were more anxious than others ... spent so many nights tormented by the fact, until you said one day, the servants of God, some monks from a nearby monastery. The wise men came quickly to the conclusion that the fruits of some branches which were eagerly eaten by animals caused a state of euphoria. To see the monks took the risk to develop an infusion with the fruits and branches of the shrub in question and noticed with great pleasure that the long and tedious vigils were transformed into joyful and pleasant duty.
The Muslims in turn awarded the discovery of the virtuous qualities of coffee a legendary founder of the town of Moka, Omar doctor, who sentenced to exile in Ousab, together with his followers, who knows by whom misdeeds. By not allowing starvation tried to eat the fruits of a tree that was abundant in the region. The miracle did keep alive Omar, that years later, returning to their land, causing much wonder that it has not been killed, not only it, but what worshiped as a saint and coffee while he conquered the city and the country.
Christians could not be left behind, with its legend divinized, being nothing less than Christ ... Fruit of the caféLento and tired, thirsty and mocked, carrying the heavy wood of the cross, climbing Golgotha, on the side of the road there were some facilities that are not used to anything, not giving fruit. But its leaves large, dark green and concave, had stored the dew of last night ... A slight breeze brings the branches of the Nazarene to the face and splashed water on his wounds and mouth, alleviating the pain and thirst. But a sheet back with three drops of blood, which were transformed into fruit to soften the hearts and palates of the inhabitants of the earth. The soldier was a whiplash of the continuing ordeal of the Messiah, but all parties did a miracle: the wretched bushes and stood cheerful and full of beautiful fruits ... It was the coffee that was being shown to the world!
Summer Recipes: From Pasqualino Marchese
Chicken salad Sour --
Ingredients - The amount of meat equal to a whole chicken, boned and chopped, 3 slices of fresh or canned pineapple, 50 grams of raisins, 1 diced tomato salad, carrot 1: small grated, 2 lettuce leaves clean and finely chopped, 1 stick of celery chopped fine, 100 grams of olives
Preparation - In a large salad bowl, place the pieces of chicken, slices of pineapple cut into small cubes, raisins, cubes of tomato, seeded, grated carrot, lettuce leaves into strips, cutting celery, olives black whole. Season with olive oil and Aceto Balsamico. Salt to taste. Mix well. Keep in refrigerator until serving.
http://www.pasqualinonet.com.ar/Entradas.htm#Tomates%20rellenos
Ingredients - The amount of meat equal to a whole chicken, boned and chopped, 3 slices of fresh or canned pineapple, 50 grams of raisins, 1 diced tomato salad, carrot 1: small grated, 2 lettuce leaves clean and finely chopped, 1 stick of celery chopped fine, 100 grams of olives
Preparation - In a large salad bowl, place the pieces of chicken, slices of pineapple cut into small cubes, raisins, cubes of tomato, seeded, grated carrot, lettuce leaves into strips, cutting celery, olives black whole. Season with olive oil and Aceto Balsamico. Salt to taste. Mix well. Keep in refrigerator until serving.
http://www.pasqualinonet.com.ar/Entradas.htm#Tomates%20rellenos
Monday 20 April 2009
Sunday 19 October 2008
Tuesday 30 September 2008
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Discover Cafe
Coffee Menu
Freshly Ground Filicori Coffee -
A classic blend of Italian coffee beans.
Espresso - black & strong! Espresso, which means
“coffee made on the spot”, has a concentrated taste
and intense aroma. €1.50
Cafe Americano
A single or double shot of espresso with a cup of hot
water. A great alternative to brewed coffee. €2.00
Cappuccino - a thick, creamy coffee, with a dusting
of chocolate, smooth, full of rich taste and savoury
creamy flavour. A combination of espresso and
steamed and foamed milk originating with the
Cappuccino Monks who wore white hooded robes
€2.80
Espresso Mocha - A dark blend of espresso coffee,
hot chocolate & hot milk, rich in flavour and aroma,
full body and moderate acidity in perfect subtle
balance, served in a tall glass. €2.90
Cafe Latte - a tall glass of hot milk topped with a
collar of strong, black coffee. €2.60
Irish Cream Cafe - (non alcoholic) we take the Cafe
Latte And add the Irish Influence €3.30
Any of the above Cafe Latte can be flavoured
with Vanilla, Cranberry, Amaretto Almond.
Monday 21 July 2008
To the sense of smell it offers an intense and delicate fragrance. To the sense of taste, the flavour got a good degree of body and a consistent roundness, yet its delicacy is supreme. Amongst the describers, sweet prevails with very high ratings, mildly balanced by bitter. Acid taste is medium-low value and astringent is almost non-existent. The aroma is complex and delicate, giving out interesting nuances of bitter chocolate, vanilla and roasted cereals, lingering in the long lasting aftertaste, with a good degree of finesse.
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River Shannon
River Shannon
The River Shannon (Sionainn or Sionna in Irish) is, at 386 km (240 miles), the longest river in Ireland, and indeed the whole of the British Isles.[1][2] It divides the west of the island of Ireland (principally the province of Connacht) from the east and south (Leinster and most of Munster). County Clare, being west of the Shannon but part of the province of Munster, is the major exception. The river represents a major physical barrier between east and west, with fewer than twenty crossing-points between Limerick city in the south and the town of Carrick on Shannon in the north.
The Shannon has been an important waterway since antiquity, having first been mapped by the Graeco-Egyptian geographer Ptolemy. The river flows generally southward from the Shannon Pot in County Cavan before turning west and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean through the 113 km (70 mi) long Shannon Estuary. Limerick city stands at the point where the river water meets the sea water of the estuary. The Shannon is unaffected by sea tides east of Limerick.
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