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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 in Cookery Books, Do, Food Events, Read | 2 comments

Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland: A Celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin

Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland: A Celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin
If you’re a cheese fan, watch out for the forthcoming Farmhouse Cheese and Craft Beer Weekend which is taking place across the country during the October Bank Holiday weekend. There is more information on the events and, if you’re interested in participating at home, some beer and...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 in Do, Food Events | 4 comments

Blas na hÉireann winners 2011

Blas na hÉireann winners 2011
I was sorry that I didn’t make it to this year’s Blas na hÉireann National Irish Food Awards at the Dingle Food and Wine Festival – the Small Girl‘s late arrival put paid to that! –  but delighted to see that fellow blogger Gillian O’Leary of Chocolate Here won two...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2011 in Do, Food Events, IFBA | 4 comments

Irish food photography workshop

Irish food photography workshop
Ask food bloggers to bring something sweet to have with coffee and just look what you get: a mouthwatering array of beautifully baked and lovingly packaged treats. And they were just the icing on the cake during a day of food photography organised by the ever-helpful Maeve Desmond at Bord Bia. Between...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2011 in Do, Eating Out | 2 comments

Berlin: Bashful dining with the Shy Chef

Berlin: Bashful dining with the Shy Chef
An email conversation with Aoife at I Can Has Cook about her forthcoming trip to Berlin reminded me of the time I spent there with a six-month-old Little Missy while the Husband did his brewing course at VLB Berlin. The undoubted highlight was the night that the Sister and I spent at a Shy Chef dinner...
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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 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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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 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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Posted on Jun 16, 2011 in Do, IFBA | 7 comments

Eating my way around Dublin

Eating my way around Dublin
How much eating can be packed into one day in Dublin? Well, if you take the earliest bus there, as I did last Thursday, quite a bit. A need for late breakfast/early lunch took myself and Kristin of Dinner du Jour – make sure you check out her fantastic new blog at Edible Ireland –  into the The...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 6 comments

Bloom 2011 – and beer

Bloom 2011 – and beer
Howling Gale Ale from Eight Degrees Brewing, TJ Crowe‘s pulled pork rolls and Ed Hick‘s bacon jam: good things to drink, eat and take home from Bloom 2011. It was a weekend of appreciating good food and, from my homebase in the beer tent (or Bloom Inn, to give it its correct name) lots of great...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2011 in Do, Food Events, IFBA | 2 comments

A taste of Spain: Campo Viejo Tapas Trail

A taste of Spain: Campo Viejo Tapas Trail
The best thing about travel is the opportunity to eat new things. I’ve gone to Morocco with visions of sweet-savoury tagines dancing in my head, a stop over in Kuala Lumpur means devouring plates of roti canai with mugs of teh tarik and, when I went to Barcelona with the Sister, I did plenty of tapas,...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2011 in Cook, Demos, Food Events, Food for Friends, IFBA | 4 comments

Seomra Blog Bia at Totally Tipp: Inch House Black Pudding and Caramelised Onion Tart

Seomra Blog Bia at Totally Tipp: Inch House Black Pudding and Caramelised Onion Tart
The Totally Tipperary Food Festival, a weekend packed with food from the Tipperary Food Producers, cookery demos and workshops will be taking place in the grounds of Cloughjordan House at the end of June. As part of the festival, Seomra Blog Bia, which is based on the very successful Salon du Blog Culinaire...
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Posted on May 30, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Cook, Do | 0 comments

Eight Degrees Brewing at the Kildorrery International Food Fair

Eight Degrees Brewing at the Kildorrery International Food Fair
There might be some Sunday mornings when it feels like a good idea to take ten kilos of lamb mince and turn it into enough burgers to feed 400 people but I’m not sure if last Sunday was the one. The Husband was jet-lagged to the eyeballs after arriving back from China the day before, I was wrecked...
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