Posted on Aug 30, 2006 in Food for Friends | 4 comments

Dukkah by post

Dukkah by post
For the last round of European Blogging by Post, I decided to make some Dukkah to include in my parcel for Petula in Italy. An Egyptian blend of coarsely ground nuts, spices and salt that you eat with pieces of crusty bread dipped in olive oil, I had never come across Dukkah before going to live in New...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2006 in Read | 0 comments

US blogger nominated for Quill Book Awards

US blogger nominated for Quill Book Awards
Congratulations to New York-based blogger Julie Powell whose book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, has just been nominated for two Quill Book Awards. The book – based on the online diary that Powell wrote, documenting her attempts to cook her way through Julia...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2006 in Read | 0 comments

US blogger nominated for Quill Book Awards

Congratulations to New York-based blogger Julie Powell whose book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, has just been nominated for two Quill Book Awards. The book – based on the online diary that Powell wrote, documenting her attempts to cook her way through Julia...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2006 in Return to Ireland | 3 comments

Good things from Cork

Good things from Cork
Life – in the form of friends’ weddings, new babies and house buying – has gotten in the way of updates here in the last while but, even though I haven’t been cooking or baking very much recently, it hasn’t stopped me from either eating or investigating interesting new food...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2006 in Bake | 5 comments

Birthday brownies: Caroline’s Chocolate Brownies

As a child, I was an avid cookbook reader and collector. Of course, growing up in a small town in the middle of the countryside, there weren’t too many opportunities to actually buy many new cookbooks so the few that I did have were well-treasured. One of my most loved books, judging by the...
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Posted on Aug 10, 2006 in Do | 2 comments

Hay Hay, It’s Donna Day news

Things have been a bit mad around here lately so I unfortunately haven’t been able to participate in last two Hay Hay, It’s Donna Day events – Snap Cookies and Brilliant Bruschetta, hosted by Clare at eatstuff.net and Bron Marshall respectively. Due to a traffic accident, Clare...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2006 in Do | 9 comments

EBBP#5 – the parcel arrives…with a warning!

EBBP#5 – the parcel arrives…with a warning!
Being the last day at work before a Bank Holiday weekend, Friday was terribly busy – but considerably brightened up by the arrival of my Euro Blogging By Post parcel from Sweden! Once goods inwards got round to delivering it to my desk, I resisted the temptation to open it immediately and tucked it...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2006 in Do, Storecupboard Specials | 3 comments

EBBP#5 – The Taste of Summer

EBBP#5 – The Taste of Summer
One of the (very) many events organised by fellow food bloggers is a series of regular parcel exchanges. Last year in New Zealand I thoroughly enjoyed participating in Blog By Mail 2 and now I’ve gotten involved in Euro Blogging By Post #5, this round of which is being run by Jeanne over at the...
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