Rocking Grass Archives: August 2008
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29 August 2008
Irish Soda Bread
Soda bread is one of the most essentially Irish foods that I can think of. Indeed, it’s one of the few foods that both Irish people and the world in general see as Irish, unlike corned beef. I, however, have never really mastered making it. I’ve tried a few times before, and generally decided […]
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29 August 2008
Autumn Cooking Plans
So, as documented last year, autumn is when my interest in cooking starts to rise again. This year is just the same, and possibly more so, since I’ve become more interested in the actual food ingredients as well as the cooking process.
Last weekend, I constructed two pies - one vegetarian, and one with the […]
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28 August 2008
Five Ingredients: Bacon and Yoghurt
Yesterday, I posted about Michael Pollan’s rules from In Defense of Food. Today, I poked around the Tesco in Baggot Street, picking up things I like to eat and looking at the ingredients.
This one is going to be more difficult than I thought, at least if you apply it strictly.
I looked at six different […]
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27 August 2008
Applying Rules from An Eater’s Manifesto
I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, and it’s brilliant stuff. He takes a basic rule: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants“, and expands on it to explain why these things need saying, before breaking down each of those to come up with a list of applicable rules that […]
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25 August 2008
Organic Eggs & Free Range Chicken
It’s very hard to know what you’re buying at the moment, particularly in terms of labels that say “free-range”, “organic”, “added omega-3″, and so on. One thing that has been puzzling me lately is the labelling on poultry - and not just chicken, but also eggs.
The prices certainly indicate something. You can get two white-label […]
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15 August 2008
Baggot Street Sandwiches
I have a new job. And while it’s ten minutes walk from the old one, I’ve gone from the not-very-well-off Pearse Street area to the upmarket business center that is Baggot Street. This means I have to renegotiate my lunchtime routines, and one of these is finding optimal places in which to buy sandwiches. Ideally, […]