Posted on Apr 30, 2010 in Food Events | 4 comments

Dine In Cork? Yes please!

Dine In Cork? Yes please!
Don’t forget – Dine In Cork Restaurant Week starts today, Friday 30 April, and runs until next Saturday, 8 May. A total of 25 restaurants in and around Cork, including Bibliocook favourites Star Anise, Liberty Grill, Fenn’s Quay, Jacques (all in Cork city) and Over the Moon in Skibbereen...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2010 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide by John & Sally McKenna

The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide by John & Sally McKenna
The ninth edition of the Bridgestone Irish Food Guide has arrived and it’s overflowing with smokehouses and bakeries, markets and farmshops, gastropubs and country houses. Packed with, as they say, “all the good stuff and only the good stuff”, John and Sally McKenna, together with their...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2010 in Travel, Work | 0 comments

Silver Circle: A Cook’s Holiday

Silver Circle: A Cook’s Holiday
Stirring tagines in Morocco, making fish cakes in Bangkok or buying the ingredients for Chicken with Apples in Normandy, make the most of your holidays by taking a cookery class while abroad. On SilverCircle.ie Caroline Hennessy gives some ideas for locations where the recipes you learn will last far longer...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2010 in Grow, Work | 0 comments

Silver Circle: Urban Chicks

Silver Circle: Urban Chicks
Forget growing your own vegetables – keeping chickens in the back garden is one of the fastest growing hobbies in Ireland. But how easy is it to make sure you have your own fresh-from-the-hen free-range eggs for breakfast? Caroline Hennessy shows you how on SilverCircle.ie. Fancy having a friendly,...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 2 comments

World Food Media Awards – Other Irish nominees

World Food Media Awards – Other Irish nominees
After I recovered from the excitement of the Foodtalk: Spices nomination in the Best Food/Drink Radio Programme for this year’s Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards – it’s taken a while! – I found a few fellow Irish nominees on the list. Two RTÉ-produced television programmes...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 8 comments

Foodtalk’s Spices up for World Food Media Award!

Foodtalk’s Spices up for World Food Media Award!
There was big excitement at the cottage when I learned that Spices, one of the Foodtalk documentaries that I presented for Newstalk, is a nominee for the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards! These awards celebrate the very best in international food publishing and broadcasting. With a total of 700...
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Posted on Apr 10, 2010 in Food Events | 4 comments

Easter Sunday rambles

Easter Sunday rambles
There was sunshine and crowds at the Mallow Food Festival on Easter Sunday morning, the street thronged with people wandering at the early event before heading home for Easter lunch. I abandoned the Husband and Little Missy at home for a quick zoom in and out as we were heading down to Gort na Nain...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2010 in Grow | 4 comments

Tips for would-be hen owners

Tips for would-be hen owners
With Little Missy turning one on Friday, we thought it was time to get her a few pets. Four pets, specifically, of the clucking, squawking Rhode Island Red variety. Between foxes and disease, we said good bye to the last of our original four hens in November and have really missed having our own delicious,...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2010 in Do | 0 comments

Bibliocook interview on Bizymoms

Bibliocook interview on Bizymoms
I recently did an interview with www.Bizymoms.com, an American information site for mothers who work from home. You can read the piece...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2010 in Storecupboard Specials | 4 comments

Kanturk black pudding

Kanturk black pudding
Any trip to Kanturk is a good excuse to call into McCarthy’s Butchers and see what new treat Jack McCarthy has dreamed up for his many meat-loving customers. I can’t resist the air-dried Sliabh Luachra Beef scattered over big bowls of salad leaves with shavings of parmesan and the North Cork...
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Posted on Apr 3, 2010 in Food Events | 0 comments

Festivals for Easter

The Mallow Food Festival has taken a move this year and will be taking place in the town on Sunday morning as part of Racing Home for Easter. We’ve had a great time at the festival for the last two years (despite last year’s torrential rain!) so will be heading there bright and early, trying not...
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Posted on Apr 2, 2010 in Do | 4 comments

When I was one…

When I was one…
…I’d just begun. Happy birthday Little Missy!
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