Posted on Feb 26, 2008 in Bake | 9 comments

Experiments with another No-Knead Bread: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Experiments with another No-Knead Bread: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
There’s always a new one, isn’t there? No sooner have you mastered Bittman’s No-Knead Bread and played around with jars of starter for your own Sourdough than another intriguing bread recipe comes along. I discovered this one through the NZ FoodLovers Forum, found the recipe, and...
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Posted on Feb 25, 2008 in Food for Friends, Grow | 0 comments

Racing time: Roasted Squash and Puy Lentil Salad

Racing time: Roasted Squash and Puy Lentil Salad
It’s not exactly salad time yet but, when a gloriously sunny Sunday coincided with the local point-to-point races and the family coming round for a pre-race lunch, I couldn’t resist poking out an old bag of puy lentils (still working my way through two kitchen’s-worth of ingredients!) to...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2008 in Cook, Grow, Lovely Lunches | 0 comments

Leeks from the garden: Minimalist Leek and Potato Soup

The veggie garden is looking a little sad at this stage in the year. Just a few scraggly kale plants, as-yet-unformed purple sprouting broccoli – but we still have some leeks, when we remember to cook them! We’ve recently been having a cold snap so I’ve been making lots of soups and, one...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2008 in Bake, Do, Radio | 3 comments

RTÉ Radio 1: Baking and breadmaking on Mooney

I was on RTÉ Radio 1‘s Mooney programme yesterday talking about baking and breadmaking – if you’re interested, you can listen here (I’m on after the 4pm news!) and here are some links to recipes that I either mentioned, or intended on mentioning, during the show. My ever-popular...
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Posted on Feb 17, 2008 in Cook, Kitchen | 0 comments

Valentine’s Night – delayed: Simple Irish Cheese Fondue

Due to a car battery failure, our Valentine’s treat got put on hold until Saturday night but the fondue was definitely worth waiting for. I didn’t make the traditional Gruyere/Emmental fondue but I did put together a variation of Myrtle Allen’s Ballymaloe Cheese Fondue, using local...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2008 in Cook | 2 comments

Valentine’s Night Fondue

Happy Valentine’s Day! Be you romantic or not, there’s just no way of avoiding it. But you can make it easier on yourself. After hearing too many tales of horrendous evenings in restaurants from my waitress sister, I’ve always avoided restaurants on Valentine’s Night in favour of...
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Posted on Feb 13, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

Guerrilla Gourmet: Kevin Thornton

Kevin Thornton‘s Guerrilla Gourmet evening at the Rock of Cashel is now online here for any fellow television-less fans of the...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2008 in Food for Friends | 7 comments

Chocolate Orange Bread and Butter Pudding

Sunday was family dinner day. One of the advantages of living in the countryside in North Cork is getting to spend more time with my family – and getting to try out lots of new recipes on them! This time round I decided to go with something very simple – Roast Chicken with Garlic and Lemon....
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Posted on Feb 8, 2008 in Do | 2 comments

“There’s more to a meal than steak…”

A quote from one of satisfied customer’s at Denis Cotter’s Guerrilla Gourmet evening, when he cooked a vegetarian meal for adamant beef-eaters at Bandon Mart. Watch the whole programme and access recipes online at the RTÉ Guerrilla Gourmet website – note: the programmes are only available...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2008 in Cook | 3 comments

Waitangi Day

If you’re in New Zealand at the moment, you’re probably celebrating Waitangi Day on the beach or with a picnic. You could do something similar in Ireland but you wouldn’t last long on a wind- and rain-swept beach and picnics really need to be at home in front of the fire! This wintery...
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Posted on Feb 5, 2008 in Do | 6 comments

Blog Awards 2008

Congratulations to all those who are on the longlist for the Best Food and Wine Blog 2008 – it’s great to see so many old favourites there, including Val’s Kitchen, Italian Foodies, Ice Cream Ireland, Martin Dwyer, The Humble Housewife and Eat Drink Live. There are also plenty of new blogs,...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2008 in Do | 2 comments

Pancake Tuesday

Don’t forget Pancake Tuesday tomorrow! I’m looking forward to trying out a new product that I’ve been sent:  two organic pancake mixes from Sowan’s Organics, one with unbleached white flour and a spelt variation, which I’m particularly interested in. Both come fortified with...
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