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Posted on Feb 8, 2012 in Grow, Print, Work | 0 comments

Slugs, snails and carrot fly tales: Jean Perry of Glebe Gardens, Baltimore

Slugs, snails and carrot fly tales: Jean Perry of Glebe Gardens, Baltimore
With the weather getting a little warmer – and wetter – this cottage dweller’s thoughts turn to the garden. Every morning, as Little Missy and I feed our hens, I try to incorporate a few seasonal jobs: weeding around the blackcurrant bushes, poking at the pots of perennial herbs to see if...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2012 in Print, Work | 0 comments

Food producer profile: Declan Ryan of Arbutus Bread

Food producer profile: Declan Ryan of Arbutus Bread
Artisan baker Declan Ryan of Arbutus Bread, and winner of the first Michelin star in Ireland, talks to Caroline Hennessy for SilverCircle.ie about the resurgence of interest in good quality bread and his grandmother’s recipe for brown soda bread. First published in 2009. Head along to Middleton Farmers’...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2011 in Bake, Brewing and beer, Demos | 2 comments

RDS cookery demo: Caramel Ale Sauce

RDS cookery demo: Caramel Ale Sauce
When I first developed the recipe for this sauce I was looking for a way to use the seasonal beers that appear in the run up to Christmas.  And then Eight Degrees Winter Ale, made with a specially fragrant spice blend from Green Saffron, turned out to be so popular that there wasn’t even a random...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2011 in Bake, Brewing and beer, Demos, Work | 6 comments

RDS cookery demo: Chocolate and Knockmealdown Porter Brownies

RDS cookery demo: Chocolate and Knockmealdown Porter Brownies
Rich dark chocolate + full-flavoured malty porter = the most lusciously moist brownies. Enjoy! Chocolate and Knockmealdown Porter Brownies A dark, full-bodied beer is a good balance to the chocolate in these brownies. I use Knockmealdown Porter here but Dungarvan Black Rock Irish Stout, Porterhouse Plain or...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2011 in Bake, Brewing and beer, Demos, Work | 9 comments

RDS cookery demo: Cheese and Herb Beer Bread

RDS cookery demo: Cheese and Herb Beer Bread
Last week I was up in Dublin for the National Crafts & Design Fair in the RDS, doing a couple of demonstrations on the Cooks Academy stage  in the Food Emporium. The title of my demo was Baking with Irish Craft Beer and I had a lot of fun using beers from Eight Degreesto develop recipes for Cheese and...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: The art and the business of bees

Lyric fm: The art and the business of bees
We eat a lot of honey at the cottage. The Husband is a particular fan of it on toast for breakfast and Little Missy always loves to get her fingers sticky with a corner of what he’s eating. We know better than most where that honey comes from. On a good, warm day we’re normally lucky enough to...
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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 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 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 May 12, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Foraging

Lyric fm: Foraging
When the first faint scent of wild garlic wafts through the spring air, many people’s thoughts turn to foraging. And this year there is more of an interest in wild food than ever before, as Copenhagen’s Noma – the menu of which has foraged food at the heart of its menu – has been named as the...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: The Sacred Harp and Dinner-on-the-Grounds

Lyric fm: The Sacred Harp and Dinner-on-the-Grounds
Somehow I can manage to get food into most reports that I do for Lyric fm‘s Culture File! Ireland’s first Sacred Harp Convention took place in University College Cork over the first weekend in March. I was there, recording and enjoying the singing – but also asking people...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 in Do, Print, Work | 0 comments

Irish Coffee past in The Irish Times and present in L Mulligan Grocer

Irish Coffee past in The Irish Times and present in L Mulligan Grocer
On the eve of St Patrick’s Day, one’s thoughts turn – quite naturally – to Irish Coffee, especially if you’ve been at all following L Mulligan Grocer‘s search for the best of the best of Irish Coffee. During the Eighties I worked in a hotel restaurant (which shall remain...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 in Bake, Print, Work | 0 comments

The Press, Christchurch: No-fuss comfort food

The Press, Christchurch: No-fuss comfort food
With all that’s happening in my former home of Christchurch, New Zealand at the moment – victims of the earthquake still being named, constant aftershocks some up to 4.1 in magnitude, work continuing on restoring electricity, drinking water and sanitation systems, damaged buildings having to be...
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Posted on Feb 18, 2011 in Radio, Work | 8 comments

Lyric fm: Going underground for dinner – underground dining in Ireland

Lyric fm: Going underground for dinner – underground dining in Ireland
My Culture File report on underground dining in Ireland, featuring Lilly Higgins’ Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and the Clonakilty by Candlelight pop-up restaurant events, is now available as a Lyric fm podcast. Thanks to all my interviewees for their help, especially the Queens of Neon, Ted Berner...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 in Print, Work | 0 comments

Irish Examiner: Welcome to my world – 10 Irish bloggers

Irish Examiner: Welcome to my world – 10 Irish bloggers
The profiles of these 10 Irish bloggers were first published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 22 January as part of the Welcome to my world feature. POLITICS Who: Suzy Byrne, MamanPoulet.com What: With a beady eye always cocked for politicial contradictions, the sharp insight and thoughtful commentary on...
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