Difficult to find ingredients

buckytom said:
Indian restaurants here often have a dish by the front door of candied fennel seeds. It's great as both a breath freshener, a digestive, and just a pinch of a little dolce to end the meal.
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I often put a spoonful of fennel seeds in my home made soups - absolutely delicious.
 
morning glory said:
You probably can find most ingredients in NYC as I can here in the UK. But certain fresh vegetables or types of fish/meat are not possible. Mostly I can obtain ingredients on-line but if I want Morning Glory leaves (yes really) I don't think I'm going to find them here (although @Yorky might be able to get them).
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Morning Glories! May be a very simple reason behind it.
 
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classic33 said:
Shop I mean is within cycling distance of Bolton. Last time there I walked back to the town centre.
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Now you have me baffled. Of these three links you provided:

classic33 said:
http://www.castlebankbutchers.co.uk/shop/category/45/British-Rose-Veal/

http://www.farmersfayre.co.uk/shop-restaurant/

http://www.heavesfarmveal.co.uk/Heaves_Farm_Veal/Home.html
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And of which you said:

classic33 said:
One of those links should have been for the farm shop mentioned. Should have been the first one.
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The closest to me is near Kendal.


There are two farm shops that I found within reasonable cycling distance of me, but both would be a bit much to walk. The only place I can think of that might fit your location is a place near Smithills with a certain renown for the ice cream it sells. Maybe it sells rose veal, but as far as I can find it doesn’t have a website. Anyway, I’ll check it out quite soon.
 
Ken Natton said:
Now you have me baffled. Of these three links you provided:



And of which you said:



The closest to me is near Kendal.


There are two farm shops that I found within reasonable cycling distance of me, but both would be a bit much to walk. The only place I can think of that might fit your location is a place near Smithills with a certain renown for the ice cream it sells. Maybe it sells rose veal, but as far as I can find it doesn’t have a website. Anyway, I’ll check it out quite soon.
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I'm working from the centre of Bolton. Thought I'd got a link to the farm shop, so I posted three that sold it. First link wasn't for it, it seems.

Bury is an hours walk from Victoria Station, Manchester, to give an example. Done it both ways, many times.

Found the shop whilst cycling. Last time there it was on foot, from Bolton.
 
buckytom said:
I can only speak from experience with Italian American dishes having never been to Italy. However, a specific type of what is called "sweet Italian" sausage here almost always has fennel seed in it. You have to look around to find it without the fennel. I think it's also called luganiga.

There are lots of fresh Italian sausages, of course, like cotechino, fontanini, and so on which do not have fennel seed.
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What is Fontanini? I've never heard. Luganega is widespread here, in the North of Italy: Lombardia ( particularly renowned at city of Monza), Veneto. Is a fresh meat long narrow and rolled up "spiral". Excellent grilled and roasted or cooked mostly stewed as well as being the main ingredient of risotto "alla monzese". Cotechino is a type of sausage eaten cooked. Tradition is that cotechino is consumed on the first day of the year accompanied by lentils. A similar product is Zampone di Modena (Emilia Romagna).
 
classic33 said:
Bury is an hours walk from Victoria Station, Manchester, to give an example.
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All I can say is if you are walking from Manchester to Bury in one hour you must be walking at a hell of a speed. It takes the train (or these days the tram) half-an-hour to make that journey.

In any case, the only other possibility of where you are talking about that I can think of is Rivington. It's a bit of a touristy spot and there are some interesting and unusual cafes and shops up there. Maybe one of 'em sells Rose Veal. Don't know...
 
Ken Natton said:
All I can say is if you are walking from Manchester to Bury in one hour you must be walking at a hell of a speed. It takes the train (or these days the tram) half-an-hour to make that journey.

In any case, the only other possibility of where you are talking about that I can think of is Rivington. It's a bit of a touristy spot and there are some interesting and unusual cafes and shops up there. Maybe one of 'em sells Rose Veal. Don't know...
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No guarantee on this one, but worth a try as the claim to stock local produce. Less than two hours out, on foot. And I went there in it's previous guise.
Provenance Food Hall
01942 812 398
 
classic33 said:
Provenance Food Hall
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Ah ha! Westhoughton. More west than north, but still not at all far, and as irony would have it, I drove within a few hundred yards of the place on Saturday morning. I was headed to Wigan. If I'd known... Anyway, maybe I'll get there this Saturday - or even sooner. Looks a good restaurant actually, but just a bit too far, a bit too expensive for Joe Baxi to take us. And you know what my wife would say if I suggested walking: "What? In these shoes?! ..."
 
Ken Natton said:
Ah ha! Westhoughton. More west than north, but still not at all far, and as irony would have it, I drove within a few hundred yards of the place on Saturday morning. I was headed to Wigan. If I'd known... Anyway, maybe I'll get there this Saturday - or even sooner. Looks a good restaurant actually, but just a bit too far, a bit too expensive for Joe Baxi to take us. And you know what my wife would say if I suggested walking: "What? In these shoes?! ..."
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You could phone beforehand. They've kept the old shop number though. Shop is downstairs. Keep a look out for the stone carvings on the outside. There's an interesting story behind one of them. See if the staff know.
 
Ken Natton said:
Ah ha! Westhoughton. More west than north, but still not at all far, and as irony would have it, I drove within a few hundred yards of the place on Saturday morning. I was headed to Wigan. If I'd known... Anyway, maybe I'll get there this Saturday - or even sooner. Looks a good restaurant actually, but just a bit too far, a bit too expensive for Joe Baxi to take us. And you know what my wife would say if I suggested walking: "What? In these shoes?! ..."
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Did you ever get there?
 
Chervil. Couldn't find it anywhere until recently when buying tomato plants from a specialist online supplier. The missing ingredient from my fines herbes breakfast omelettes. The plug arrived, and was duly planted in a pot alongside an oregano bush. Two days later and it had completely disappeared. Not sure if slugs or birds were responsible, but back to square one.
 
epicuric said:
Chervil. Couldn't find it anywhere until recently when buying tomato plants from a specialist online supplier. The missing ingredient from my fines herbes breakfast omelettes. The plug arrived, and was duly planted in a pot alongside an oregano bush. Two days later and it had completely disappeared. Not sure if slugs or birds were responsible, but back to square one.
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Yes chervil - chefs on TV are always using it! Why don't Waitrose stock it? Does if go limp quickly or something once cut, I wonder?
 
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