Posted on May 25, 2006 in Do, Travel | 0 comments

Bibliocook à Maroc

Bibliocook is on tour! The Boyfriend and I travelled to Casablanca last weekend to meet with a friend – the Australian – and spend a couple of weeks travelling around the country. It’s a good opportunity to practise the languages that we’ve been learning, French for me and Arabic in...
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Posted on May 18, 2006 in Do | 0 comments

Táim ag blagadóireacht

A wee while ago, Sinéad over at Sigla sent me a link to a piece on Irish language podcast blog An tImeall on Cócaireacht agus Filíocht (Cooking and Poetry). My prowess as gaeilge not being what it should be, I had to get a friend to translate it for me – many thanks to the Schoolteacher – and...
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Posted on May 16, 2006 in Cookery Books, Read, Return to Ireland | 6 comments

Monica’s Kitchen by Monica Sheridan

Monica’s Kitchen by Monica Sheridan
Cookbook sections in secondhand bookshops can be a little hit or miss. There’s always a pile of microwave cookbooks – no one, for some reason wants to hang onto these dodgy and dated texts – a scattering of horrible diet books and often lots of ancient Family Circle publications, with their...
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Posted on May 14, 2006 in Food for Friends | 4 comments

Couscous to accompany a Moroccan-style meal: Spiced Squash and Couscous Salad

Couscous to accompany a Moroccan-style meal: Spiced Squash and Couscous Salad
The Boyfriend and I are about to head off to Morocco in a week’s time so I thought I should use up my last year’s supply of Moroccan spice blend ras el hanout on a meal for the Writer – who brought me my first taste of spices from Morocco – and her husband. I decided to make my...
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Posted on May 12, 2006 in Bake, Food Events | 9 comments

Sugar High Friday: Ginger Crunch

Sugar High Friday: Ginger Crunch
I’ve often intended to but never quite got round to getting involved in Sugar High Friday. It’s a reoccurring blog event that was originally, once-upon-a-long-time-ago, started by Domestic Goddess Jennifer. This round is being hosted by Ruth, who is physically situated in Toronto –...
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Posted on May 9, 2006 in Do | 0 comments

Food and music: Alex Kapranos

Food and music: Alex Kapranos
Watch out for the idiosyncratic food columns by Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos in The Guardian newspaper. After tip-off from my workmate about Kapranos being about to publish a collection of the columns, I went searching for them online. They’re pieces about the foods that former Glaswegian...
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Posted on May 7, 2006 in Lovely Lunches | 2 comments

Salad lunches for work: Puy Lentil Salad with Balsamic Dressing

Salad lunches for work: Puy Lentil Salad with Balsamic Dressing
When the days get brighter and longer, a girl’s thoughts turn to salad lunches. Based about 15 minutes walk away from any shops or cafés and blessed/cursed with a sloppy canteen, I bring my lunch to work year-round. Brown Bread and a fridge in the office are my lifesavers – the bread for...
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Posted on May 4, 2006 in Do, Eating Out, Food Events | 0 comments

Tasty Dublin

Tasty Dublin
Watch out next month for Taste of Dublin 2006, running from 22 June to 25 June in the gardens at Dublin Castle and described in the press release as Dublin’s “first outdoor gourmet food and drink festival”. Ha! There’s a reason why there aren’t more outdoor events in Ireland...
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Posted on May 2, 2006 in Do, Return to Ireland, Travel | 4 comments

A wander round the west

Our first weekend of the year under canvas couldn’t exactly be called an unqualified success. We did actually remember to pack the sleeping bags (and Anzac Biscuit morale) but, despite such forethought, it wasn’t exactly the weather for camping in the west of Ireland. The heavens opened early on...
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Posted on May 1, 2006 in Do, Eating Out | 3 comments

A new shopping experience: Fallon & Byrne

A new shopping experience: Fallon & Byrne
A new arrival on the Dublin grocery scene is the gorgeous-looking Fallon & Byrne, a classy supermarket along the lines of Donnybrook Fair, on Exchequer Street in the city centre. They’ve been renovating the building for a while and, seeing it opened at last, I just popped in for a few minutes last...
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