Rocking Grass Archives: July 2006
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18 July 2006
Review: Harry’s Polish Menu
For some reason, when I think of Harry’s Bar and Café in Dun Laoghaire, my mind attempts to insert a projected image of Rick’s Café Americain from Casablanca. The difference here being that as much as I would like to think of Harry’s as the gathering den of the Polish expats in Ireland (which it […]
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14 July 2006
Making Tourteletes in fryture
These are the little fig pasties/pies/call them what you will that I made as part of the Medieval feast I cooked last weekend.
I was amused when I saw the recipe for these on Godecookery. These are, essentially, fig rolls. So therefore we deduct that fig rolls are decidedly Period and not even the snottiest SCA-head […]
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14 July 2006
A Simple Medieval Dinner - or Feast
A couple of years ago I dabbled in the SCA for a while. Although it didn’t work for me in the long term, it did leave me with a realisation that yes, it was perfectly possible to cook food in a Medieval way and yes, it is delicious and even reasonably healthy (if in many […]