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Posted on Jul 28, 2010 in Eating Out, Travel | 5 comments

A food-orientated Saturday: Green Apron, Sage Café, Wild Honey Inn

A food-orientated Saturday: Green Apron, Sage Café, Wild Honey Inn
Between Little Missy, my work as a freelance journalist and the Husband setting up his own business, it’s not so easy to get away these days. As a result, any time we do head off, there’s as much food packed into the time as possible. Last weekend we waved Little Missy off on her holidays to Nana...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2010 in Print, Travel, Work | 0 comments

The Irish Times Failte Kerry supplement: Food fit for a Kingdom

The Irish Times Failte Kerry supplement: Food fit for a Kingdom
Fancy some food in Kerry? Check out the Failte Kerry supplement in today’s Irish Times with Food fit for a Kingdom by Caroline Hennessy. Click on the newspaper below to see it in a larger format. The short version: Out of the Blue, Waterside, Dingle. 066 9150811 www.outoftheblue.ie QC’s Seafood...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2010 in Food Events, Grow, Travel | 1 comment

Blooming all over

Blooming all over
Gardens and food in the sunshine: what’s not to like? The Husband and I – Little Missy landed with the Little Sister for a day’s worth of chasing the dog in my parents’ garden – headed up for the Friday of this year’s Bloom festival. It was a day for sunscreen and...
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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 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 Mar 4, 2010 in Travel | 5 comments

Volcanic pizza

Volcanic pizza
Blue skies plus a good morning’s work under my belt were the perfect excuses for heading off to my favourite farmers’ market in Mahon Point today. It seemed that I wasn’t the only one with that idea as I got stuck in traffic during the lunchtime rush there and our first choice for lunch...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2010 in Travel | 1 comment

Bye, bye Hanoi

Bye, bye Hanoi
And goodbye to all our new friends at the noodle stalls lined up on the roadside just around the corner from where we were staying. A few mornings of breakfasts there and we were regulars. With a choice of Pho Ga (chicken noodle soup), Pho Tofu (noodle soup with, yes, tofu) or Banh Cuon (rolled rice...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2010 in Travel | 1 comment

Vietnamese coffee

Vietnamese coffee
A cup of hot coffee with milk at Café Mai, 79 Le Van Huu Street, Hanoi. Dark, strong and very sweet – there’s a layer of condensed milk at the bottom of the cup – Vietnamese coffee is just the thing to get you going in the morning, and for the rest of the day. The coffee often comes...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2010 in Do, Travel | 3 comments

Goodbye to New Zealand…

Goodbye to New Zealand…
…to blue skies and lakeside walks, to fabulous food (we’ve been truly spoiled by the Husband’s Mother!) and rich, dark coffees, to post-swim fish and chips and bowlfuls of fresh, seasonal fruit, to Little Missy figuring out how to pick the fresh peas from a homegrown pod and lazy bach...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2010 in Travel | 2 comments

New Zealand flavours

New Zealand flavours
Flowers on a feijoa tree at Stafford Lane Estate when we visited on a wine tour of the Nelson area. Feijoas are very popular in New Zealand, I loved them when we were living here, but it’s the wrong time of year for the fruit. You can, however, get a little of the tropical flavour from the fleshy...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2010 in Eating Out, Travel | 0 comments

Fossil Ridge: wine on the doorstep

Fossil Ridge: wine on the doorstep
While in New Zealand, staying with the Husband’s parents, our nearest café is actually a boutique winery called Fossil Ridge. We pass the small vineyard on our daily walk (sometimes several times a day as the Husband tries to balance lots of eating his mother’s fabulous food with regular...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2009 in Kitchen, Life, Lovely Lunches, Travel | 5 comments

Have spork, will travel

Have spork, will travel
Last year, on a trip to London, I picked up a spork – a light plastic utensil which features a spoon at one end, fork at the other and serrated knife edge on the fork side – in a kitchenware shop and I’ve rarely been without it since. The last quarter of 2008 was taken up with train trips...
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Posted on Jun 16, 2009 in Life, Travel | 3 comments

Little Missy in London

Little Missy in London
Tablefuls of tapas, full English breakfasts, bags of cherries, good coffee aplenty, savoury bacon baps and decadent brownies – just a few of the things that Little Missy enjoyed, albeit second hand, while in London at the weekend. After a hissy fit at Cork Airport – yes, we were that couple...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2008 in Do, Travel | 2 comments

Gone to France

It will be quiet around here this week as I have abandoned the Irish summer for some time soaking up the French sun with the Husband, the Teacher and the Tax Advisor. We have taken ourselves camping in the Vendée and Charente-Maritime regions on the Atlantic Coast for ten days, staying in small campsites...
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Posted on May 18, 2008 in Do, Eating Out, Travel | 0 comments

Sunny birth days

The perfect birthday? Take a day off work – this is always nicest if done midweek! – and book a night away in Gort na Nain, a vegetarian guesthouse near Nohoval outside Cork city, run by the welcoming Lucy Stewart and Ultan Walsh, vegetable growers and suppliers of vegetables to Café Paradiso,...
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