Posted on Jul 28, 2011 in Cook, Food for Friends | 8 comments

Sausage and Potato Bake

Sausage and Potato Bake
No matter what the weather – even if it’s a grey and gloomy July day  - you can’t go wrong with a dinner that you toss together, plonk into a couple of large baking tins and land into the oven. When it uses some of Ed Hick‘s superb fat, meaty sausages, all the better. I was a fan of...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh at Mitchelstown Cave

Lyric fm: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh at Mitchelstown Cave
If you haven’t been able to get your hands on tickets for the sell-out Cork Opera House Cave concerts in Mitchelstown Cave, you can get a feel for the event from this piece I did for Lyric fm’s Culture File. Both concerts may be sold out but you can catch Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh touring in...
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Posted on Jul 21, 2011 in Brewing and beer | 3 comments

Howling Gale in the news

Howling Gale in the news
Saturday was a red letter day for the Eight Degrees Brewing boys. Bright and early I got a Very Excited phone call from the Husband who had just arrived at the cottage – we’re onto the painting stage now, undercoating upstairs while the carpenter does his final sawing and fitting downstairs (and my...
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Posted on Jul 15, 2011 in Do, Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Paddle your own canoe

Lyric fm: Paddle your own canoe
Last month, during the Lismore Festival Of Travel Writing, I interviewed author Jasper Winn on the Blackwater. Jasper is the author of Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland, in which he writes about his experiences of circumnavigating the  Irish coastline by sea-kayak – during what just happened to be...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

Trish’s French Kitchen by Trish Deseine

Trish’s French Kitchen by Trish Deseine
For years, Belfast-born Trish Deseine was probably better known in her adopted country of France than over here, winning many plaudits for books like Je Veux du Chocolate (well worth picking up online) and Ma Petite Robe Noire. But she’s got plenty to offer to an Irish audience, and it all comes with a...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 4 comments

Savouring beer, food – and clouds

Savouring beer, food – and clouds
Cloud spotting and craft beer? It’s all about savouring the moment – and savouring the flavours – according to the Eight Degrees Brewing Husband at the start of the beer and food matching event, which was held in Skibbereen last week to raise funds for the Irish Cloud Festival. Our aim, and this...
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Posted on Jul 4, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 6 comments

Cloud spotting – and beer: Thursday 7 July

Cloud spotting – and beer: Thursday 7 July
Just back from some down time near Union Hall – but I have a good excuse to head west again this week. The Husband and I will be at the West Cork Hotel in Skibbereen on Thursday, 7 July, for a craft beer and food matching evening. The event is being organised by Sally McKenna of The Bridgestone...
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