Posted on May 27, 2010 in Bake, Food for Friends | 9 comments

Pizza for lunch: Pizza dough recipe

Pizza for lunch: Pizza dough recipe
In our house we really like pizza, especially when the parents aren’t about and the cottage turns into the Sunday lunch stop for the Sister, Little Sister and Small Brother. It’s easy to make the dough and sauce ahead of time, leaving the final assembly for when everybody turns up. That way they...
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Posted on May 21, 2010 in Food Events | 9 comments

Pork and bloggers *

Pork and bloggers *
It was (almost) pig all the way at Bord Bia‘s Irish Food Bloggers Event yesterday as 30 people – some strangers in the flesh, yet already intimates online – gathered together for a day of demonstrations, discussions, and attempts at matching faces to personalities. As the ripples from...
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Posted on May 20, 2010 in Food Events | 0 comments

Bloom 2010

Bloom 2010
If you’re interested in gardening, food – or both! – make tracks to Bord Bia‘s Bloom 2010 festival, which is taking place in Dublin’s Phoenix Park over the June Bank Holiday weekend, from 2 to 7 June. Alongside the show gardens and an expanded artisan farmers’ market, Bord...
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Posted on May 19, 2010 in Food Events | 0 comments

Bord Bia Irish Food Blogger Event

Bord Bia Irish Food Blogger Event
Donal Skehan, over on Good Mood Food, has been putting a list of Irish food bloggers together in advance of tomorrow’s Bord Bia bloggers event and there are now – count ‘em – more than 40. It’s a long way from the empty slate in March 2005 when Bibliocook took its first...
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Posted on May 18, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Tana’s Kitchen Secrets by Tana Ramsay

Tana’s Kitchen Secrets by Tana Ramsay
Simple, accessible recipes are Tana Ramsay’s hallmark and that hasn’t changed in her latest book, Tana’s Kitchen Secrets. Unlike her superchef husband, Ramsay’s family-orientated recipes – she has four children to cater for – are all of the easily achievable,...
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Posted on May 17, 2010 in Life, Travel | 2 comments

Un voyage à France

Un voyage à France
Just picture the scene: an ancient chateau set amidst vineyards in the heart of the Bordeaux countryside, guests from all over the world gathering together on the terrace to celebrate a wedding, May sunshine breaking through the clouds as the couple stand in front of friends and...
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Posted on May 5, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 5 comments

Irish Seaweed Kitchen by Prannie Rhatigan

Irish Seaweed Kitchen by Prannie Rhatigan
How do you make seaweed sexy? Take a passionate woman who happens to be an expert forager and cook, add a strong sense of place – the Sligo coast – scatter with a selection of recipes from well known (Domini Kemp, Hugo Arnold) and local Irish chefs (Brid Torrades of Sligo’s Tobergal Lane...
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Posted on May 4, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 3 comments

No win for Foodtalk at Media Awards

No win for Foodtalk at Media Awards
So, we didn’t win last night – but, as my producer said, that doesn’t mean that we aren’t great! An Australian show – The Main Ingredient: New Years Day, which was presented by Kelli Brett and produced by ABC Radio – took the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Award...
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Posted on May 3, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 2 comments

World Food Media Awards

World Food Media Awards
Today’s the day when the results of the 2010 World Food Media Awards will be announced in Adelaide. Fingers crossed for Foodtalk: Spices and the other Irish...
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