Posted on Oct 29, 2008 in Read | 0 comments

Leon: Ingredients and Recipes

Leon: Ingredients and Recipes
Working my way through Leon: Ingredients and Recipes, Allegra McEvedy’s fantastic cookbook from the London-based restaurant chain at the moment. As there was a big bunch of lovely dirty parsnips sitting around from the last Mallow Farmers’ Market – like carrots, they always keep better when...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2008 in Lovely Lunches | 5 comments

Warm Chickpea Salad with Parmesan

Warm Chickpea Salad with Parmesan
One of my major perks, on days I work from home, is having the opportunity to make myself something really good for lunch. If those days also happen to feature me making chicken stock or reconstituting a big bag of dried pulses – these things happen in the kitchen without me having to think about them –...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

Slow Food Dublin: Winter Roast

If you’re around Dublin on Sunday 14 December, Slow Food Dublin are planning a pre-Christmas, open air roast at Meeting House Square in Temple Bar with chestnut-stuffed roast pig on a spit, mulled wine, hot cider and live music. They will also have a number of stalls from food producers around the...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2008 in Do | 2 comments

Kilmackillogue mussels

Kilmackillogue mussels
Tuesday was not a nice day. As I drove down to Kilmackillogue pier in Kerry in the morning, the rain rarely stopped beating against the windscreen as the wipers battled to give me a view of the road. It was not the perfect day to go out on a boat yet that’s exactly where I was heading, off harvesting...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2008 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Cornucopia at Home by Eleanor Heffernan and the Cornucopia team

Cornucopia at Home by Eleanor Heffernan and the Cornucopia team
During my first couple of years in Dublin, I worked on Great Denmark Street, just off the top of O’Connell Street. At that stage, there weren’t many lunch-friendly places around the northside so, if catching up with friends for lunch, the usual thing was to meet outside Trinity (cue Caroline...
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Posted on Oct 6, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

National Irish Food Awards/Blas na hÉireann winners

National Irish Food Awards/Blas na hÉireann winners
Any excuse is a good one to visit Dingle and when it involves a Food Festival and an invitation to participate in the judging of the inaugural National Irish Food Awards, also known as Blas na hÉireann, how could anyone resist? Certainly not me and Saturday found my tastebuds at the ready to sample some of...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2008 in Do | 0 comments

Dingle Food Festival

Who would have thought that garlicy guacamole ice cream could possibly equal gorgeousness?
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