tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708497571920727182024-03-11T03:24:33.794+00:00Consumed: Adventures of a Dublin FoodieAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242414122994786881noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-23688615699141374042015-07-16T02:38:00.000+01:002015-07-16T14:30:24.819+01:00Basil Wood Fired Pizza and Café
Although I love pizza (who doesn’t?!), I’m still a long way
short of trying a lot of the purported best pizza spots in Dublin. I mean the
Independent Pizza Company and Da Mimmo are at least close by, but I’ve yet to
try the likes of Di Fontaine’s, Manifesto or Paulie’s. Shocking, I know!
Especially since all I’ve been dreaming of lately is up and flying to Naples so
I can finally try the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-13394569179547674572015-03-09T22:01:00.001+00:002015-03-09T22:28:45.710+00:00Shakshuka
At first glance, shakshuka might look like the result of a jolly
in kitchen after a heavy night of drinking. Not that great things don’t come
from cooking after a night out, but this particular dish (also spelled
shakshouka) is in fact a one that’s much beloved across most of Northern Africa
and the Middle East. Literally meaning ‘a mixture’ in Arabic Tunisian, it’s a
simple combination of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-15350637611320988692015-03-07T22:20:00.001+00:002015-03-09T22:30:19.234+00:00A Very, *Very* Belated Japanese Food Adventure
Shortly after I went on, er… ‘hiatus’ in 2011, I travelled
to Japan to visit my brother who’s been working there for a good three years
now at least (I’ll have to check up on him with that, it’s been so long!). It
was a two week trip that was unfortunately punctuated by the Tōhoku earthquake but luckily we ended up being nowhere
near some of the worst affected areas. I went there with grand Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-52346712059485331782015-03-01T20:11:00.000+00:002015-03-01T20:41:38.349+00:00Smoke Potion Hot Sauce by the Chilli Alchemist
I’ve gotten used to receiving food related gifts at
Christmas by now, but this year I got something from two of my friends that I’d
never heard of before; ‘Smoke Potion’ hot sauce from a company called ‘the
Chilli Alchemist’. No, it wasn’t anything to do with mysticism or Fullmetal Alchemist tributes. Rather, it’s a sauce made and sold by a chilli expert from Bristol.
I was waiting for an excuseUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-74280395731358564782015-02-21T23:27:00.001+00:002015-02-22T15:42:13.160+00:00Pitt Bros BBQ Project
I’ve always dreamed about opening a restaurant. It seemed
like a natural way for things to unfold what with me spending so much time in
them, the joy of cooking and so on. Of course, I lack both the experience and
vast funds necessary so I chose the only realistic alternative: keep on eating
and become a blogger! *triumphant fanfare*
Not that I didn’t have a plan for if I did open a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-68092223072624845702015-01-24T13:22:00.001+00:002015-01-24T13:22:36.412+00:00Just a Quick Update
Hi everyone!
Just a quick update; I know it’s been roughly four years
since I last posted anything so before I jump back in, I’d just like to reaffirm that yes, I am alive
and (mostly) healthy, and have neither forgotten about this place or how much I
enjoy talking/writing/thinking about food. Also eating it, minor detail! I may
have tried to forget at times, but thankfully my long Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-10255792317896552362010-09-05T03:19:00.002+01:002015-02-22T13:01:29.246+00:00Hell (closed)Kris Kristofferson once said that “the Devil haunts a hungry man”. He may not have delved into the specific food types that Satan uses to tempt us, but everybody has their own preferred indulgence; for some it’s chocolate, others a plate of curly fries. One dish you can expect to find its way into almost any list of sinful comfort foods is pizza, truth be told perhaps the most popular food in theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-32931710850059677712010-08-17T19:03:00.004+01:002015-02-22T13:01:45.085+00:00Da Enzo (and the Musings of a North Sider) (closed)For somebody who aims to eat out as often as I do, you’d think I grew up surrounded by restaurants and visiting them from the day I could walk! As it happens, this couldn’t be any further from the truth. For one, I only began trying new places to eat in for a hobby some five years ago. It’s a good enough time-span in which to build up an appreciation for cooking and the restaurant industry but Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-23341349981180844342010-08-08T01:08:00.017+01:002010-08-08T01:55:10.798+01:00Black Food ColouringUp until the last couple of days, black food colouring - and how to get it - was something of a serial enigma to me. I knew it existed, but always presumed you could only obtain some in a Fallon & Byrne-esque eclectic food market or from catering suppliers. Infrequent expeditions to find it always ended one of two ways: failure and presuming I’d have to resort to Ebay (ala liquid smoke), or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-25054899499617115042010-08-02T03:50:00.002+01:002010-09-05T03:21:21.370+01:00HerbstreetOver the past month I’ve discovered two of the pitfalls involved in blogging. The first is that if your internet breaks down then you’re altogether screwed. Well, unless you have the time or money to spend an extra seven hours in your local internet café or can cope with posting entirely via an iPhone, neither of which I’m able to! The second is that getting back into the flow of writing and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-84313737165346120972010-06-13T21:45:00.000+01:002010-06-13T21:45:33.335+01:00Taste of Dublin FestivalAs any or most Dublin foodies will know, the talk of the past four days will have been dominated by one thing and one thing only: the Taste of Dublin Festival. For the last five years it has landed itself in the Iveagh Gardens, playing host to some of the biggest names in the British and Irish celebrity chef circles, many of Dublin’s finest restaurants and innumerable food related companies from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-91463966413754455872010-06-08T15:30:00.008+01:002010-06-09T03:12:54.147+01:00Free Burrito Day at Boojum Fresh MexicanA couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of being amongst Boojum's first customers. They arrived without so much as a whisper on the Millennium Walk, serving up burritos on the spot and other Mexican fare in keeping with the 'fast casual' style of catering that the US is so familiar with. The emphasis was squarely on fresh ingredients, and everything was made from scratch on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-61791579192339852032010-06-07T20:58:00.001+01:002010-06-08T01:59:58.426+01:00A Quick and Simple Spicy Barbeque MarinadeEven though there's a deluge falling outside as I write, it's fair enough to say that the weather hasn't been too bad so far this summer. Well, comparitively I mean. Normally, May tends to be a bit of an annual wahsout in Ireland; this time around we actually managed a week or two of sustained sunny weather! The measure of which in this country is - typically - Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-37028207358737960282010-06-06T14:57:00.004+01:002010-06-09T03:24:01.479+01:00World Cup Consolation with Authentic BobotieThe sunshine’s been (for the most part) rolling in, I’m off on a week’s holiday with the Taste of Dublin Festival inclusive, my laptop is back from its own little excursion and in general, the summer’s turning out to be an almost perfect one! Well, I say almost perfect for a reason, one that almost everybody in Ireland no doubt understand over the next month. That’s right, it’s time for the 2010 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-54029495536112748472010-05-29T21:32:00.001+01:002015-02-22T13:02:13.138+00:00Shakes (closed)As far as weeks go, it definitely could’ve been a more productive one where all things blog related are concerned. First of all, it turns out my beloved laptop (we shall call her Kerrigan) must remain I the shop for another short while. Then if that weren’t annoying enough, any spare laptops that were at my disposal have closed up and gone packing down to Kerry for the weekend! In a way I’m glad Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-53814600783074250042010-05-23T01:10:00.001+01:002010-05-29T21:36:47.544+01:00Irish Food Bloggers Event, Bord BiaA few weeks ago, Donal Skehan of the Good Mood Food Blog decided to update his blogroll. He was aiming to create a list of the most regularly updated Irish food blogs; something that I hadn’t as of then come across in any of the internet’s many corners. If that wasn’t enough, he also planned - with the help of Bord Bia – an ‘event’ to facilitate this update that would see a whole host of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-89860641670936416562010-05-20T00:25:00.001+01:002010-05-20T00:26:24.606+01:00Cola Flavoured Yop: a Blast of Validation from the 1990s‘You’re a liar’, ‘it was just a dream’, ‘don’t be stupid, they’d never mix yoghurt with cola’ and ‘my, haven’t we an active imagination?’; all replies I got to my recent suggestions that a Yop that was cola flavoured could be found on supermarket shelves at one stage during the early nineties.
Up until two years ago, Google went at least some way toward backing me up with a few sporadic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-17066252014649484602010-05-17T04:47:00.003+01:002010-06-07T20:42:49.042+01:00Rebecca's Tuxedo CookiesOne of the many things Rebecca, my wonderful girlfriend, is good at is baking. Particularly cookies; I discovered this one evening upon arriving home from a bad day in work to a plate of wholesome, chocolate chip delights were waiting for me. Yes, they were made from a dough that both of us had mixed up a couple of nights beforehand, but her way of forming them produced a much more satisfying, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-51752665512666567542010-05-13T00:46:00.001+01:002010-05-14T05:42:30.556+01:00Meeting Extreme Pizza's Philip MartinA few weeks ago, Rebecca and myself had lunch in Rathmines’ newest restaurant, Extreme Pizza. Any of you who are following Consumed will remember that I was excited about finally trying out the menu I’d read so much about prior, but ultimately left disappointed with what had been served up. There’s no need to elaborate, the pizza we ate on that day just didn’t live up to our expectations. I wroteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-28394265074176739262010-05-07T02:40:00.007+01:002010-09-05T03:28:18.623+01:00The CounterWorking full time in Xtravision is not exactly what you’d call difficult. Thorough, yes but hard it most certainly ‘aint. Then again, I’d like to bust the myth that all we do is sit around and watch movies when nobody’s visiting during the day; they’re lies, and you’ll be very disappointed if you aim to build a nonchalant career based on them (especially once the local skangers pay you a visit!) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-78923720319220982832010-05-04T18:02:00.003+01:002010-05-05T02:30:50.831+01:00Corks Café and Wine BarWine bars are something of a little pet fear of mine. Just a tiny one. I see them, look at their menus, might be very interested in what they’re actually serving but ultimately hesitate to step through the door if I do actually decide I want to go in. The reason behind this is, of course, that I still amn’t the world’s biggest fan of wine. When I do order it, Rebecca tends to come home with me onUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-83022847549499769012010-04-30T04:47:00.002+01:002010-06-07T00:28:29.249+01:00Taste of Ranelagh Festival
It may have taken a bus journey from Ashbourne, a brand new coat for Rebecca and a borrowed umbrella to combat the wettest day in several weeks, but the destination made our travels on Sunday more than worthwhile. That’s right, it was time for the very first ever Taste of Ranelagh Festival! And, in fact, my first visit to a food festival in Dublin outright. Bearing this in mind, writing about Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-87303766427511087252010-04-24T00:41:00.004+01:002010-06-07T00:28:39.075+01:00Taste of Ranelagh Festival Preview
I said it at the beginning, in that little 'about me' paragraph to the right and I will say it again: this blog is as much about my own foodie learning experience as it is yours, if indeed those of you who read it have any learning left to do! I make no pretences to being able to cook effortlessly, and I have a long way to go in terms of exploring the rich tapestry of Dublin's epicurean scene. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-22169506787647092542010-04-23T23:35:00.003+01:002010-04-24T00:53:48.391+01:00Tesco Finest Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice Ice LolliesI have a confession to make: I'm a slave to Tesco. Yup, it's where the majority of my had earned money that isn't being spent in restaurants goes, on an almost nightly basis at this stage! Whilst other Dublin foodies are off buying fresh ingredients from the various markets and high quality food halls dotted around the city in their ample spare time, I walk the aisles at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2370849757192072718.post-5674712985438050812010-04-20T23:40:00.003+01:002010-06-13T21:13:59.323+01:00Taste of Dublin Festival Preview
It's the one event of the year that every Dublin foodie should have penned in on their calendar: the Taste of Dublin Festival. Now in its fifth year, you'll find it held annually for several days in June at one of the city's most picturesque locations, the Iveagh Gardens. What normally is one of Dublin's more quiet and secluded parks will, for four days, play host to a collection of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1