Posted on Sep 3, 2008 in Do | 2 comments

Terra Madre Ireland in Waterford this weekend

Terra Madre Ireland in Waterford this weekend
For anyone interested in food, particularly Slow Food, it cannot have escaped your attention that Terra Madre Ireland will take place this week in Waterford. It all kicks off on Thursday, with a National Organic Food Conference, then on Friday there are a series of workshops – from Irish Food Production:...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2008 in Bake | 1 comment

Sweet treats for work: Chocolate Hazelnut Squares

Sweet treats for work: Chocolate Hazelnut Squares
Sometimes you start with one particular recipe and end up going off on a slightly different tangent. That’s what happened with these Chocolate Hazelnut Squares. After a comment by Sarah on my Lemon Traybake, I wandered over to Val’s Kitchen and took a look at the Hazelnut Caramel Slice that she...
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Posted on Oct 10, 2007 in Ballymaloe Cookery School | 4 comments

Ballymaloe Cookery Course: Week 4: Wednesday

Up at the crack of dawn on Saturday – well, at 6am it’s still pretty dark this time of year – to work on the Ballymaloe stall at the Middleton Farmers’ Market. As well as the compulsory practicals and demos at the Cookery School, we can also volunteer for other experiences. Last...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2006 in Do, Return to Ireland | 0 comments

Rachel’s return

Rachel’s return
For all those Rachel Allen fans out there – and I know that there are lots of you! – she returns to RTÉ One next week with a new television series called Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home. A hardback cookbook to accompany the series is published by HarperCollins and it’s difficult to...
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Posted on May 4, 2006 in Do, Eating Out, Food Events | 0 comments

Tasty Dublin

Tasty Dublin
Watch out next month for Taste of Dublin 2006, running from 22 June to 25 June in the gardens at Dublin Castle and described in the press release as Dublin’s “first outdoor gourmet food and drink festival”. Ha! There’s a reason why there aren’t more outdoor events in Ireland...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2006 in Food for Friends, Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Emergency soup for a bleak winter’s night: Storecupboard Lentil and Tomato Soup

Seeing as both Darina and Rachel have recently been assuring the readers of their cookery books that it’s become very fashionable to entertain at home instead of going out – that, and the fact that the Boyfriend and I finally have somewhere to call home – we had some friends round last week...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2006 in Read | 0 comments

Easy Entertaining by Darina Allen ****

Easy Entertaining by Darina Allen ****
Coming back from New Zealand, I keep getting told that “staying in is the new going out” and this would seem to be borne out by the publication of both Darina Allen’s Easy Entertaining and her daughter-in-law Rachel Allen’s Favourite Food For Friends within a few weeks of each other...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2005 in Do, Return to Ireland | 4 comments

Rachel Allen on RTÉ

Rachel Allen on RTÉ
After all the debate about Rachel Allen, I felt that I just had to watch her show! Last night I was home alone at my lovely friends’ house (being a bag lady makes you realise how good your friends are) and I decided I was going to take the plunge and actually turn on the television for myself. I tuned...
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