Category: Shop Reviews
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Shop review: Davey’s, Rialto, Dublin 8
In today’s Irish Times Pricewatch, you’ll find my article on value (or lack of value) outside the main supermarkets. One local shop that I didn’t mention is Davey’s, a small, independent convenience store right beside a Centra in Rialto, Dublin 8. The friendly owner, Davey, has been in business for almost 30 years, drawing in…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Paratha Recipe
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Parathas are really delicious little flat breads, which are plain or stuffed with potatoes, herbs, spices, paneer, mint, etc. Paratha Recipe Ingredients 2 cups wholewheat flour Water Pinch salt 1 cup veg/sunflower oil (2 tbsps to knead dough and the rest to fry the parathas) Stuffing…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Part 2
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Earlier this week, I took you on the first leg of my spin around Eurasia Supermarket in Fonthill. My Indian friend, Radha, a food scientist with two kids, is showing me what she puts in her trolley. This week we’re diving into the freezer dept first.…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Vegetable Biryani & Chana Masala
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Radha’s Vegetable Biryani Ingredients Garlic and ginger paste Cassia bark Cardamons Cloves Javantry (flowers) Cumin seeds Kala jeera Bay leaves Black cumin seeds Cashews Green chillies Carrots, green beans, baby corns, etc (the packaged selection of baby veg in supermarkets is a quick option) Sliced onions.…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Part 1
Our writer Julie asked an Indian friend to show her around Eurasia, an Asian mega-mart in Liffey Valley and give her some expert tips. She got such a wealth of information that we”re giving this whole week over to Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour. Follow the blog all week for some great tips and recipes. jean…
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Save on meat
As a kid, I sneered obnoxiously at other people’s Christmas dinners. “We,” I lorded in the boastful voice of a nine-year-old boy, “have turkey, ham, and roast beef.” Surprisingly, my face went relatively unpunched. Even though my folks would have been far from flathulaich, the rules of reason went out the door for the Christmas…
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No more Moore Street?
I’m a born and bred southside boy, but no stranger to the mean streets of Dublin north. Back in the 70’s and early 80’s – when, like today, money was a scarce commodity – my dad made a weekly trek through ten feet of snow, volcanoes, solar flares, heatwaves, and floods to pick up fruit…
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Recipe: Baked Amaretti and Vin Santo Plums with Mascarpone Cream
You have to try this Italian dessert, it’s Baked Amaretti and Vin Santo Plums with Mascarpone Cream – outrageously good. It is from the recipe book ‘Falling Cloudberries’ by Tessa Kiros. With a really rich, full-bodied taste, it’s a winner if you’re looking to impress. I went all out and bought the ingredients from The…
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Teddy’s ice cream
While in Dun Laoghaire, join the queue for Teddy’s ice cream. Teddy’s has been around since forever, and it really is the sweetest, creamiest and freshest whipped ice-cream you’ll ever taste. Sometimes, whipped ice cream can have an artificial or even metallic taste. Teddy’s, however, tastes as though it’s gone from cow to ice cream…
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Shop/ Off License Review: O’Neills, South Circular Road
Students at Griffith College are probably familiar with the great selection of beers across the road in O’Neills, but for the rest of you, I think this place is worth mentioning. It’s an unusual off-license, also selling various cheeses, biscuits, milk, and newspapers. There’s always some specials on. On Monday, I saw: – 6 cans…