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Posted on Feb 2, 2012 in Life, Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Spiced (and Slightly Salted) Hot Chocolate

Spiced (and Slightly Salted) Hot Chocolate
A freezing cold afternoon plus one trying-to-avoid-too-much-caffeine-mother and a grumpy-from-her-nap-toddler. The only solution? Two cups of warming Spiced Hot Chocolate. When I was in college, a mug of this – made with lots of Bournville chocolate – plus a croissant was counted as a meal. I got...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 in Eating Out, Storecupboard Specials | 8 comments

Eat Only Irish: Cork buffalo mozzarella and La Cucina’s Irish menu

Eat Only Irish: Cork buffalo mozzarella and La Cucina’s Irish menu
Eat Only Irish? Why of course, when you can pick up the most amazing Irish buffalo mozzarella in Cork’s English Market. The Real Olive Company stall has just started selling the creamiest balls of mozzarella made using raw milk from a herd of water buffalo which are based on the Lynch farm near...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 in Cook, Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Moving time: Sausage and Bean Hotpot

Moving time: Sausage and Bean Hotpot
Moving house is never fun, even if it’s only for a few months while the cottage gets a long-overdue extension and insulation fit out. I know it will be worth it in the end but sometimes it’s hard to see that when surrounded by boxes and a Little Missy determined to unpack as quickly as you pack...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2010 in Grow, Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Winter Warmers: Sloe Gin

Winter Warmers: Sloe Gin
A winter warmer? It’s just got to be Sloe Gin. The first time I tasted it was in 2002 when the then Boyfriend and I were staying with the IT Specialist near Cambridge and an unlabeled bottle was produced late at night. I savoured every last drop and remembered enough the next day to ask our friend for...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2010 in Storecupboard Specials | 4 comments

Kanturk black pudding

Kanturk black pudding
Any trip to Kanturk is a good excuse to call into McCarthy’s Butchers and see what new treat Jack McCarthy has dreamed up for his many meat-loving customers. I can’t resist the air-dried Sliabh Luachra Beef scattered over big bowls of salad leaves with shavings of parmesan and the North Cork...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2009 in Grow, Storecupboard Specials, Work | 0 comments

EveryMonday.ie: In a bit of a pickle

EveryMonday.ie: In a bit of a pickle
If you grow your own fruit and veg, you can turn your garden gluts into winter treats. Caroline Hennessy has some useful tips and a few straightforward recipes for pickles and chutneys on EveryMonday.ie. Growing your own fruits or vegetables is very satisfying. However, you will invariably end up with a...
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Posted on Sep 15, 2009 in Grow, Storecupboard Specials | 3 comments

Going green: Green Tomato and Apple Chutney

Going green: Green Tomato and Apple Chutney
I started growing my own vegetables when I was about 11. After a long winter hording my pocket money, poring over seed catalogues and haunting the seed display in our local hardware shop, I bribed my younger brother to help me dig a few beds in the overgrown back garden. An early adopter of raised beds, my...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2009 in Cook, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

Old Millbank Smokehouse Smoked Trout and Lemon Pasta Salad

Old Millbank Smokehouse Smoked Trout and Lemon Pasta Salad
When we had the Mallow Farmers’ Market taking place outside Urru last summer, I never missed the chance to pick up a pack of Old Millbank Smokehouse hot smoked trout from Geraldine Bass. Saturday mornings in work were always busy so I had to watch for a gap between customers to make a dive out of the...
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Posted on Feb 24, 2009 in Cook, Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Time for pancakes! Irish Pancake recipe

I have loved Pancake Tuesday ever since I was a child, standing on a chair so I could reach the cooker to make stacks and stacks of pancakes. It sometimes took a long time before the family was satiated! Since those crêpe-making days, the thinner the better, I’ve become a fan of fluffy American...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2008 in Cook, Grow, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

A simple salad: Jack McCarthy’s Air-Dried Beef and Parmesan Salad

A simple salad: Jack McCarthy’s Air-Dried Beef and Parmesan Salad
With such fantastic air-dried beef, there’s little need to gild the lily. A simple salad The freshest of salad leaves from your garden or Gairdín Eden A few slices of Jack McCarthy‘s air-dried beef Gabriel or Parmesan cheese A small clove of garlic, crushed A lemon Good quality extra virgin...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2008 in Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Jack McCarthy Meats

Craft butcher Jack McCarthy is a passionate man. Make a visit to his shop in the middle of the main street in Kanturk and be prepared to learn all about his wide range of award-winning meat products. On a quick visit to the town to meet up with the Editor earlier today, I called in to pick up some of my...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2007 in Do, Storecupboard Specials | 3 comments

Moving time

It’s moving week so there’s not much cooking and baking going on, apart from me making loaves of brown bread to try and use up some of the six – yes, count them, SIX! (and that’s not mentioning the few that are down at the cottage, ahem…) – bags of flour that I have...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2007 in Cook, Lovely Lunches, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

Simple Tomato Sauce

This is the most useful recipe to have in your repertoire. I use it – sometimes with the addition of broccoli, chorizo, bacon or chilli – with gnocchi, pasta, cannelloni and polenta, as a topping for pizza and even when baking pancakes. If you can track down some decent Italian plum tomatoes,...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2006 in Do, Storecupboard Specials | 3 comments

EBBP#5 – The Taste of Summer

EBBP#5 – The Taste of Summer
One of the (very) many events organised by fellow food bloggers is a series of regular parcel exchanges. Last year in New Zealand I thoroughly enjoyed participating in Blog By Mail 2 and now I’ve gotten involved in Euro Blogging By Post #5, this round of which is being run by Jeanne over at the...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2006 in Do, Storecupboard Specials, Travel | 4 comments

Moroccan (foodie) souvenirs

Moroccan (foodie) souvenirs
Honey – Moroccan honey is the most un-honey-tasting honey that I’ve ever eaten. We often had it for breakfast, the rich caramel sweetness drizzled across English muffin-styled Moroccan pancakes called beghrir or the flaky, multi-layered rghaïf. Accompanied with a tall glass of freshly squeezed...
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