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[agoodwinsmith]

See, the thing about cooking is not the cooking.  No, I love cooking; it's fun, and I'm good at it.  The thing about cooking is the washing up and the grocery shopping and the lugging things home and the throwing out the garbage.  And, did I mention the dishes.

I made colcannon (hi, ruthi - btb - *why* is it pronounced coal-kenny?  hmmm?[1]) tonight, which is very tasty because we love cabbage, and what's not to love about potatoes and cream and butter?  But the pots and the pans and the knives and the spoons and the stickiness and the gooeyness, and the eeeeeyeeeewww.

I like eating out.  Somebody else cooks, cleans, and deals with all the yuck, AND, I don't have to eat my meal under the pitiful gaze of ravenous cats who are only fed bread and water ever other week.

But you can't get colcannon in a restaurant.

[1] - I dunno.  I've never pronounced it in my life; I just make it and say, "here, eat this."  This is what one of the recipes I googled said it should be pronounced as.  Other interpretations welcome, remembering that I have a North American west coast ear, and think that caught, rot and bought all rhyme, not only with each other, but also with fought, not, knot, hot, wraught, and grot (as in: grotto and grotty).

Comments

[rpdom.livejournal.com]

Well, I for one enjoy the cooking and the shopping aspects, but will do almost anything to put off the washing up.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I googled the recipe for this and it sounds suspiciously like a posher version of Bubble 'n' Squeak to me.

But it also sounds like something Rob might enjoy, so thank you :-)

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

Bubble and squeak is good!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

"coal-kenny"? I've always heard it pronounced "kol-cannon" and Wikipedia says it's from the Irish "cál ceannan - white head" ... though to be honest, even though my mother was born in Cork and we'd go over to visit the grand parents often, I'd never heard of it until three or four years ago ... probably because living in London we get bubble'n'squeak.

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

It's pronounced however the Irish tell you, because it is the Irish name of the dish. I pronounce it like I read it, with the benefit of centuries of English (British) colonialism.

Possibly you could get colcannon in a restaurant. Or bubble and squeak. Or the chef's incorporating cabbage into the mash she usually makes.
On the other hand- mashing the potatoes, mixing in the cooked cabbage, heating the lot - is historically a dish made of leftovers: The Sunday Roast is served with roast potatoes, and with vegetables, and the left overs have to be heated and eaten somehow. Restaurants may be less likely to serve leftover dishes. Maybe.

Which part of Canadia are you in? I could google for a restaurant that looks likely to have colcannon.