#bagún

[bjfinn]

BAGÚN (IRISH BACON)

Irish bacon is different from American bacon -- it's usually made from the loin, and isn't traditionally smoked (German immigrants are credited with introducing the idea of smoking meats to Ireland).

It's usually served whole as a roast or cut into chops, or boiled like ham.

This recipe was cobbled together from various sources.

1.8kg (4lb) pork loin roast, fat cap left on

160g (¾ cup) brown sugar

80g (½ cup) Diamond Crystal kosher salt

15g (2 tsp) honey (or maple syrup)

8mL (½ heaping tbsp) peppercorns, crushed

8mL (½ heaping tbsp) juniper berries, crushed

2 bay leaves, crumbled

2-3 whole cloves, crushed

Part One

Wash pork thoroughly in cold water; pat dry with paper towels and place in a large plastic zipper bag.

In a small bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients to combine; add dry brine mixture to pork, rubbing to coat evenly. (I did it on the board for the sake of the photo, but it's easier and less messy to do it in the bag.)

Seal the bag, removing as much air as possible; refrigerate for one week.

After the second week, remove meat from the bag and rinse lightly; wipe dry with paper towels and place on a rack over a pan or foil in the refrigerator for about 24 hours.

After one week, rub meat again with dry brine mixture and turn over; refrigerate for another week.

Part Two

Cut into chops, if desired, or may be cooked whole as a roast.

[nuelangblr]

Breakfast vocab as Gaeilge

bricfeasta - breakfast bricfeasta milis - sweet breakfast bricfeasta leasaithe - savoury breakfast

cupán tae - a cup of tea cupán caife - a cup of coffee gloine uisce - a glass of water gloine sú oráiste - a glass of orange juice coffee le bainne - coffee with milk tae gan siúcra - tea without sugar mála tae - tea bag duilleoga tae - leaf tea tae seasmaine - jasmine tea bainne bearrtha - skimmed milk bainne coirce - oat milk bainne almóinní - almond milk smúdaí - smoothie cacó - cacao

iógart - yoghurt iógart sútha talún - strawberry yoghurt leite / brachán - oatmeal babhla leitean / babhla bracháin - a bowl of oatmeal gránach - cereal tósta - toast slisín tósta - a slice of toast ceapaire - sandwich ceapaire tóstáilte - toasted sandwich arán - bread brioscarán - crispbread arán bainne - soft milk bread arán banana - banana bread im - butter im piseanna talún - penaut butter cáis - cheese liamhás - ham ubh - egg ubh bhruite - boiled egg bagún agus uibheacha - bacon and eggs cúcamar - cucumber tráta - tomato úll - apple péitseog - peach fraocháin - blueberries subh - jam síoróip mhailpe - maple syrup vaiféal - waffle pancóg - pancake

Cad a itheann tú don bhricfeasta? - What do you have for breakfast? Ithim tósta do mo bhricfeasta - I have a toast for breakfast Cuirfidh mise im agus subh ar an tósta - I’ll put butter and jam on the toast

[britneyshakespeare]

is your child texting about DUOLINGO BEGINNER IRISH?

DDAS = dia duit, agus slán

IFM = is fear mé

LDT = le do thoil!

ISC = itheann sé ceapaire

TBA = tá bagún agat

LAFG = labhraíonn an fia gaeilge

[caodhanthecelt]

My new friend, Caoimhín Bagún (at Southampton) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4fQ67vHAmZ/?igshid=1mi4n2n34n26r

[fixaidea]

Itheann sé fíon agus ólann sé bagún.

...Tá sé aisteach.

[gaeilgechicago-blog]

Irish Crash Course and Irish/Gaeilge

I’m always on the lookout for more tools to help me learn Irish. Can you have too many? I don’t think that's possible, so I’m always scouring the web looking for books, CDs, tapes, and video to help me get ahead in my study.

I recently found a set of CDs, developed for US Government personnel, that are a good tool for practicing both vocabulary and pronunciation. And I need all the help I can get with pronunciation!

Back in the mid 1980s, Educational Services Corporation released a series of language courses, under the title Language/30. One of the courses was Irish/Gaeilge, which I’ll talk about a bit later. Flash forward to 2013, and Language/30 released a revised and expanded edition named Irish Crash Course.

Irish Crash Course

I found a used copy of Irish Crash Course on Amazon for about $10. A new copy will run you about $25, although you may find it cheaper on other sites.

The packaging says that the course, “will have you conversing after just a few 30-minute lessons! “ and that it has an introduction by World Famous Linguist Charles Berlitz.

The course is comprised of two CDs packed in an doubled-sized DVD case (the size of which seems a bit of overkill to hold two CDs). Disc 1 contains a printable PDF booklet (including the introduction by Charles Berlitz) as well as all of the tracks as MP3 files (so there’s no need for you to convert them yourself). And, if you still have a CD player in your vehicle, good news, you can just plop them into your player because they work that way, too.

This set was released in 2013 by Language/30. Cóilín Owens, Ph.D. is listed as the Irish editor and the audio was recorded by Evan Haning, Cóilín Owens, and Caitríona ÓDrudy with poetry translations by Dr. Cóilín Owens.

There are audio recordings covering a wide variety of topics and objects including…

The Irish Alphabet, Sounds of the Irish Language, Salutations, Everyday Expressions, Visits and Introductions, Food and Drink, At the Restaurant, Leisure, The Body, At the Hotel, Shopping, Communications, Numbers, Times, Colors, Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Seasonal Festivals, Transportation, Geography, Placenames, Animals and Birds, Weather, History and Government, Religion and Education, Folklore, Mythology, Old Sayings, Formal Forms and Addresses, Male Celtic Names, Female Celtic Names, Male Christian Names, Female Christian Names, Irish Poetry, and Social Customs and Polite Expressions.

You’ll get a lot of practice going through each of these sections. My favorite, of course, was food and drink, and I couldn’t help getting hungry reading and repeating arán prátaí, cabáiste, bagún, and ispín. Tá ocras orm!

Both Owens and ÓDrudy have pleasant voices and the longer phrases are spoken slowly enough for an Irish language novice.

As mentioned, a PDF booklet is included on the first CD and includes a few words from Charles Berlitz as well as an Introduction which gives both a brief background of the Irish language as well as pronunciation hints before the providing the English, Pronunciation, and Gaeilge for each of the audio sections detailed earlier. It clearly maintains an ‘80s vibe as you can see below.

Níor mhaith liom toitín! Is fuath liom toitín!

Following that are sections on Basic Irish Grammar, Important Signs, and a Vocabulary Index. 

A major downside of the PDF booklet is that it is not searchable! It’s simply a collection of scanned images taken from a previous printing.

So, is it worth it? If you’re looking for more practice with Irish words and phrases, it absolutely is. Each word or phrase is introduced in English, then repeated twice in Irish and there is just enough time to for you to repeat the Irish before announcer moves onto the next word.

Several of the audio sections are simply lists of words which are useful for practicing your vocabulary. It’s fun to try to say the Irish word before or at the same time as the Irish speaker. 

Irish/Gaeilge

I actually found this edition first while searching Abe Books for anything that would help my Irish learning. This edition contains two cassette tapes and was available for an incredibly reasonable price. The only problem is I no longer have a cassette player to listen to them.

But that ended up being okay. My local public library offers a do-it-yourself cassette-to-digital conversion that is simple and easy to use. For the price of free, I was able to transfer the content of the cassettes to MP3 files. My only cost was the time to do it myself.

This set was produced in 1986 by Educational Services Corporation under the title LANGUAGE/30 - Irish GAEILGE. It was developed by the same Cóilín Owens of the Irish Crash Course at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virgina and recorded by Cóilín Owens, Caitríona ÓDrudy and Dave Lerbs (Owens and ÓDrudy provide the Irish voices in the Irish Crash Crash Course while Evan Haning replaced Lerbs). It also proclaims that it was developed for U.S. Government personnel and contains a standardized introduction by Charles Berlitz (the difference here being that the introduction is part of the audio). It comes with two double-sided cassettes and a phrase dictionary and study guide.

The cassette and study guide are broken down into fifteen sections: General Expressions, Visits and Introductions, Everyday Expressions/Personal Needs, Time/Seasons/Numbers/Colors, Communications, Transportation, Geography, Placenames, Animals and Birds, History and Government, Formal Addresses, Religion and Education, Folklore/Mythology, Old Sayings, and Social Customs and Daily Expressions.

Much like the Irish Crash Course, the study guide and cassettes are meant to be used together but can be used separately as the guide contains columns for English, Pronunciation, and Irish (Gaeilge). Here’s the same section from the Irish/Gaeilge study guide as seen above in the Irish Crash Course. 

One versus the other

The Irish Crash Course definitely has more sections than its predecessor. But it also has most, if not all, of the same content. It moves some of the sections around and also moves some of the audio into different sections but had I not listened to the original, I wouldn’t have known.

Gaeilge/Irish has the advantage of having a printed booklet. The Irish Crash Course is certainly easier to use as the MP3 files are already on the disc. But I kind of dig Dave Lerbs ‘80s industrial voiceover.

Unless you’re a completist, I think the Irish Crash Course is a good value and you don’t have to convert cassette tapes!

[elfybacon]

self promo hoho!

Bagún's-TeaCorner

because I'm going to be working on it a lot tomorrow >.>

Follow. it's going to be my original post stuff. mind you it will most likely not be wow related. but its my life, thoughts, how my brain works.. you know.. shift like that :P

[bjfinn]

NEW & IMPROVED MASTER LIST

GUARANTEED TO WORK OR YOUR MONEY BACK!

(TERMS & CONDITIONS APPLY 😜)

Since my first attempt at a Master List seems to have gone completely on the fritz now (probably because I changed my URL after doing the links!), I've made a new one.

I've also added the title of each story in its own tags in case this sort of thing should happen again -- that way you can just look for the one you want to read by searching for the title in the hashtags, or to find all of them together: #bjfinn writing or #bjfinn poetry.

Also, I'm starting to draw again! You can find my art at: #bjfinn art

STORIES

Beetlejuice

1. Three Ghosts and a Baby (AU)

2. Imaginary Friends (AU)

3. Hellhound

4. Beej on a Hot Tin Roof

5. Demons Have Feelings, Too

6. Birds of a Feather

7. How to Train Your Demon

8. Shadow Work

9. A Day at the Beach

10. Star Light, Star Bright

11. Movie Night

12. Turkey Day

13. Tango Argentino

14. Midnight Musings

15. Mommy Dearest

16. Spores

17. Shutterbug

18. Misinterpreted

19. Harry's Quest

20. Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

21. Mother's Day

22. Rampage

23. Truth or Dare

24. Goth and Ghoul

25. Father's Day

26. Lily

27. Healing Circle

28. Petey

29. The Trial of Otho Fenlock

30. Alphabet Soup

Foul Play

1. The Egg-Man

2. PopChat

School of Rock

1. 'Tis the Season

2. Something Special

3. Double Date

Spamalot

1. The Horned One

Crossovers

1. One Last Chance (BJTM/SoR/Deadbeat)

2. High Noon at the Gardner Hotel (BJTM/Deadbeat)

3. The Ghost and Mr Finn (BJTM/SoR)

4. Book of Shadows (BJTM/SoR/TWoE)

5. Holiday Plans (BJTM/SoR)

6. Chaos and Candy Canes (BJTM/SoR)

7. The Great Christmas Potato War of 2023 (BJTM/SoR)

8. Candid Confessions (BJTM/SoR)

Candid Confessions (Version 2.0)

9. Together Forever (BJTM/SoR)

10. Somebody to Love (BJTM/SoR)

11. Beej, Book and Candle (BJTM/TWoE)

12. Partners (BJTM/Deadbeat/SoR)

13. Ghost in the Museum (BJTM/Deadbeat/SoR)

14. The Babysitter (BJTM/TWoE)

POETRY

1. Deck the Halls

2. An Cú Dubh (The Black Dog)

3. To Sleep

4. The Supermarket Blues

5. The Ides is Nigh

6. The Senators' Picnic

7. The Might of the Fight

8. Holes

9. Summertime

10. Bang in the Night

TV COMMERCIAL PARODIES

1. That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles

2. You're Not You When You're Hungry

PLAYLISTS

Beetlejuice

1. Beetlejuice's Playlist (#1)

2. Lydia Deetz's Playlist (#1)

3. Adam and Barbara Maitland's Playlist (#1)

School of Rock

1. Dewey Finn's Playlist (#1)

2. Dewey Finn's Playlist (#2)

3. Dewey Finn's Playlist (#3)

4. Dewey Finn's Playlist (#4)

5. Dewey Finn's Playlist (#5)

6. Rosalie Mullins' Playlist (#1)

7. Rosalie Mullins' Playlist (#2)

8. Rosalie Mullins' Playlist (#3)

ANECDOTES

1. Salad Days

2. One is the Loneliest Number

3. Big Tipper

4. Yes, We Have No Bread Today

5. Under Pressure

6. A Cashier's Life: Shopping Etiquette

7. Shelter from the Storm

ADVENTURES IN COOKING

1. Pua'a Kālua (Hawaiian Pulled Pork Shoulder)

2. Bagún (Irish Bacon)

FOOD REVIEWS

1. Zagnuts

[elfybacon]

:3

[elfybacon]

it means "lazy" in irish (well. according to google it does at least...) but the cat.. literally.. i walked super far from it. and it just sat there like "sup" ._.

[elfybacon]

you know I had to wait for this before i slept tonight.

[elfybacon]

XD everyone trying to jump for blingtron

[elfybacon]

voodoo panda...?

[elfybacon]

I know its stupid but this is literally one of the biggest WoW related achievments I have obtained. I find leveling boring.. and never do it.. This is why my only 90 is Bagún. Thanks to my amazing friend I recruited (Kórra) and 2 of my awesome Guildies (Chelt and Rangeslayer) I have a character that is only 5 away from level cap :) 

I LOVE YOU GUIS :P

[elfybacon]

im invisible. MWAHAHAHAA seriously though can I look like this always.

[elfybacon]

and then i realized... that quest item in my bag is the trainee weapon i got at level 1 ._. I'm level 83