Posted on Aug 29, 2011 in Life | 8 comments

Almost baked

Almost baked
She’s growing up fast. Not so long ago Little Missy was taking her first adventures into food, relishing an early taste of wild blackberries; now she’s getting stuck into baking and, as you can see, no bowl is safe from those helpful little hands. She was my first long-term baking project and I...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Cloud Festival

Lyric fm: Cloud Festival
When I travelled to the first Irish Cloud Festival which took place in Skibbereen at the end of June, I was wearing two hats. The car was loaded up with cases of Sunburnt Irish Red from Eight Degrees Brewing for delivery to the West Cork Hotel, where we had held a beer and food matching event earlier that...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011 in Life | 13 comments

Granny

Granny
My Granny, my father’s mother, was always the Christmas cake queen. Her cake was always dark with promise, richly laden with dried fruit, plump with cherries – a big favourite of ours – and well fed with whiskey. It would turn up at our house in mid-December, with the rest of what we called...
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Posted on Aug 4, 2011 in Do, Kitchen, Life | 17 comments

New kitchen taking shape

New kitchen taking shape
It might feel like a long time but thanks to my wonderful builder (on time, on budget, fantastic to deal with), the cottage is finished – all, bar the painting. And the flooring but, due to funding issues, that’s not likely to happen for a while. After all my agonising over what to do about the...
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