Posted on Apr 29, 2008 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas by Craig Priebe

Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas by Craig Priebe
I love experimenting with and learning different cooking techniques, especially if they involve playing with yeast. No Knead Bread? Yes please! Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Made that. Sourdough from my own starter? Still bubbling quietly away in the fridge. But grilled or barbequed pizza? Not yet...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2008 in Bake | 2 comments

Anzac Biscuits

Totally forgot Anzac Day – which was on Saturday – this year. In case anyone else is also in the same boat, but still wanting to mark the date with some baking, here is my tried-tested-and-true Anzac Biscuit...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2008 in Do, Grow | 0 comments

Sprouts ahoy!

Sprouts ahoy!
Although there has been lots of salad planted in the garden on recent weekends, including mustard greens, rocket and mizuna (at least I’ll be able to distinguish between the plants after cramming in Ballymaloe for the salad leaves and herbs exams!), it’s going to be a while before any of the...
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Posted on Apr 21, 2008 in Bake | 0 comments

Sweet treats for work: Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies

Sweet treats for work: Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies
Lacking my once-easy access to a variety of shops, providing me with a large assortment of ingredients to play with, these days I tend to concentrate on the products available in Urru and have also become a habitué of my local health food shops. After finding some cacao nibs in The Granary (Mallow) and...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2008 in Do | 4 comments

Bibliocook in The Irish Times

Woo hoo! Bibliocook got a brief mention in Marie-Claire Digby’s Webwatch in the food section of yesterday’s Irish Times Magazine. Unless you have a subscription, you can’t view it online so here it is (told you it was brief!): Webwatch www.bibliocook.com Read about the culinary adventures...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2008 in Bake | 0 comments

Sweet treats for work: Apricot Date Cake

Sweet treats for work: Apricot Date Cake
Always read the recipe before starting, always read the recipe. That’s an instruction that’s been drummed into me for years, whether in Home Ec class, while studying in Ballymaloe, or just from experience on many occasions of getting half-way through baking something only to discover that an...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

Slow Food Cork: An Crúibín

Slow Food Cork has an event coming up this Thursday, 17 April, at a new bar called An Crúibín on Union Quay. Before it was revamped and made over, the venue was known as the Lobby Bar, site of many a night of musical madness and commemorated by inimitable Cork musician John Spillane in his nostalgic Magic...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2008 in Do | 2 comments

Pig as performance piece: Waterford Food Fair 2008

Pig as performance piece: Waterford Food Fair 2008
Hog roast from Gubbeen was on the menu at the Waterford Food Fair farmers’ market in Dungarvan yesterday. Cooking started on Grattan Square at 5.30am so appetites were well-stimulated by the time Fingal Ferguson and his staff started serving blaas stuffed with roast pork to a hungry crowd around...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

Mallow Farmers’ Market on TG4

There’s a video report on the first Mallow Farmers’ Market on TG4 – go to Cúrsaí Reatha – Cartlann, scroll down to Nuacht TG4 – 05/04/08 and the piece is third on the Nuacht, 6.38 into the clip.
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Posted on Apr 10, 2008 in Do | 2 comments

Waterford dates for your diary

Waterford Festival of Food – this weekend! 11 to 13 April in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. Food trails, cookery demonstrations and a Sunday farmers’ market that I’m planning on visiting. I hope they’re going to be serving those delicious soft floury white bread baps, unique to Waterford,...
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Posted on Apr 8, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

Sweet treats for work: Nutty Chocolate Squares

Sweet treats for work: Nutty Chocolate Squares
Some weeks things work, at other times my attempts to fill the tins with sweet treats for work falls flat. This time I have a not very successful variation on Almond Honey Squares from a neat little Woman’s Weekly Simple Slices book that the Husband ordered for me recently. I think he’s trying...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2008 in Bake | 2 comments

Trish Deseine online

Trish Deseine online
For those of you who are, like me, without television – or simply without Irish television – you can watch Trish Deseine‘s first programme, Trish’s Paris Kitchen, online from the RTÉ website. Although the first show includes lunchtime cooking classes at L’Atelier des Chefs, a...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2008 in Do, Eating Out | 0 comments

Taste of Cork

With Irish cheeses and handmade terrines, fresh-shucked oysters, champagne and plenty of spiced beef, the launch of the Taste of Cork festival took place last Thursday in the English Market and it’s shaping up to be something well worth checking out. Although I was rather underwhelmed with my...
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Posted on Apr 3, 2008 in Do | 7 comments

The revolution will not be pasteurised

Gradually getting through the Observer Food Monthly – it’s like very good chocolate for me, not something to be gobbled down but, rather, to be slowly savoured – and just came across a feature on Bill Hogan and Sean Ferry of the West Cork Natural Cheese Company, makers of the superlative...
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Posted on Apr 2, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

Trish’s Paris Kitchen

Trish’s Paris Kitchen
Trish Deseine is a familiar name in the food blogosphere – particularly to anyone who reads Chocolate and Zucchini – and this Ulster-born food writer is also very well known in her adoptive France. Last year’s publication of Nobody Does it Better: Why French Home Cooking Is Still the Best...
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