A few weeks back I entered a competition over on The Good Mood Food Blog (check out his new book!) and I won the Carribean Food Made Easy with Levi Roots cookbook. Delighted was I. I had invited my sister and my dad over for a Sunday dinner – Mum was out of town and […]
Ay Carumba. Thanks once again to Jamie At Home and the Temple Bar Food Market, I enjoyed a delicious lunch this afternoon. Had to share it with you. I picked up these incredible mushrooms from Denis Healy’s Organic Farm stall this morning. The ones on the left are shittake and the ones on the right […]
Pic swiped from The Guardian website. Sorry veggies – bit gruesome! Excitement!! Thanks to the fabulicious Good Mood Food Blog and @Octopus_books, I am now the delighted owner of Carribean Food Made Easy with Levi Roots. I’ve never won anything before in a competition and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my Ma, […]
On Friday night, we were treated to a wonderful evening by Alan & Colette in our second Come Dinw With Me evening. I won’t say too much as the scores are all secret and I don’t want to give too much away. All I can say is that it was slightly more subdued than my […]
And so, my quest of producing edible pastry continues. I made this wee tart last Friday night following the same pastry recipe that worked for me last time. Pastry is peculiar. In fact, it’s about as peculiar as my insistence on trying to master it when I can buy perfectly acceptable ready to roll stuff […]
I love risotto. Love, love, love it. Butttt….it does have three little downsides: 1) It’s not exactly calorie/heart attack proof, what with all that delicious melted butter and oodles of oozing Parmesan cheese…*ghfffhhslobbergfffhh* 2) It’s not a difficult thing to make once you know how but it is hard on the feet. You have to […]
Phew. Had a great weekend at The Electric Picnic. Still don’t feel normal at all today. Although the above dinner helped to replenish some lost vitamins from three nights spent in a muddy field with a crate of beer as a pillow. Check out Niall’s coverage of The Picnic over here and over here. You […]
When Squash met Cashel. So. I did it! I faced my pastry demons and came through victorious, like some sort of baking Joan of Arc, battling the murky, tempestuous world of flour, butter and water. Maybe that’s going slightly too far. I managed to make a fairly kicking savoury tart the other night, and yes, […]
Although I’m getting close, I’m still not quite over my pastry fail a few months back. I have invested in a food processor which I really think will solve my clammy-pastry-kiss-of-death hands problem. I’m going to give it a go this weekend and see if I can’t make myself a nice, savoury tart. I’ll let […]
The spoils from The Daily Spud’s back garden – on the left are the Colleen spuds and the big one at the front of the pic is a Duke of York (or a King York as I insist on calling them) The Daily Spud sent me an email yesterday asking me if I wanted some […]