Rocking Grass Archives: June 2007
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20 June 2007
Tasting Beer, Tea & Chocolate
Everyone’s tastes change over time, and mine have been no different. Ten years ago I drank cider (hard cider for the Americans in the audience), drank only “ordinary” tea, and if I was inclined toward chocolate at all, preferred a sweet milk chocolate, most like Cadbury’s or thereabouts. I was only starting to distinguish between […]
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15 June 2007
Irish Stew
I’m not sure how the Irish Stew came to be labelled with “Irish”. At home, it was just stew, and it rather confused me later on to find references to it by nationality, as though stews elsewhere were different. Stew is also a winter sort of a dish, or at least autumn, but it’s a […]
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14 June 2007
Yeast
Those who have been monitoring my various online adventures and/or who know me in real life know that yeast cookery is one of my taller hobbyhorses. In the past, this used to mostly concern its (lack of) availability in Ireland. Understand: yeast baking to me very nearly represents the pinnacle of comfort food. When I […]
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11 June 2007
The Search For Anchovy Essence
Searching for a given obscure ingredient in Ireland can be a very difficult proposition. Dublin isn’t a big city, and there are a limited number of shops, but going through all of them on foot, searching the shelves, and asking shop assistants who don’t necessarily recognise what you’re hunting for, would probably take weeks. Given […]
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6 June 2007
The Desirous Pie
Pies were not something I was much exposed to, growing up. There were apple pies, of course, or apple tarts as they were called, rhubarb tarts, and occasional forays into other fruit pies, but generally speaking, the only savoury one I knew of was steak and kidney, and I thought I didn’t like kidney. So […]
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6 June 2007
Herbs
Tesco’s in Dundrum has, in the recent months, considerably improved the spice and herb selection. Historical foods aficionados such as myself will be delighted to note that amongst the jars there I have seen dried asafoetida [1] and galangal - dig out those medieval and Classical collections! If it’s fresh galangal you’re looking for, you […]
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5 June 2007
How Irish Food Has Changed
Irish food has changed, to an incredible degree, over the last twenty years. This is a topic I’ll be returning to often, because it fascinates me. I was brought up with what seems to have been an unusually large range of food, probably because my mother had a respectable collection of cookery books, and collected […]
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5 June 2007
Return
Rocking Grass has finally undergone its long-awaited redesign, so things should now be clearer and more eye-pleasing to all. More structural changes will take place once we get around to them - I am hoping to add a page of links and a listing of suppliers I like in Dublin. You will also notice advertisements […]