LWIBloggies2016: Best Food Experience Blog
Eleven years blogging. Love it! A five word acceptance speech doesn’t let you get many thank yous in but it does concentrate the mind. Just as well we were told to be short and sweet last Thursday at...
Author: Caroline
Listen: Chef Takashi Miyazaki celebrates all the 7s
The stars are underground… At 7pm on the seventh day of the seventh month, Cork-based Japanese chef Takashi Miyazaki cooked a meal to celebrate the festival of Tanabata. A star festival that’s based on...
Read: Best cocoa birthday brownies
First published on Irish Country Living. Ten years ago, the Kiwi turned 30. The night beforehand, we booked a corner in a pub on Wexford Street in Dublin, just 20 minutes’ walk from where we...
Finalist! 2016 Littlewoods Ireland Blog Awards
Delighted to discover that Bibliocook is a finalist in this year’s Littlewoods Ireland Blog Awards. Some great people on the list in my category – the Food Experience blog – so well worth checking them...
Read: Irish Examiner | Fabulous fictional food – Part 2
First published in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, 10 August 2016. As the feature I submitted was a little longer than necessary (it was the recipes, honest!), I’ve broken it into two for the blog. Part 1 –...
Read: Irish Examiner | Fabulous fictional food – Part 1
This was first published in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, 10 August 2016 but – as I got so carried away when writing about fabulous fictional food in children’s books! – there wasn’t quite enough space for all...
Read: Growing and cooking with kids + Strawberry halloumi salad
First published on Irish Country Living. One day while collecting the Small Girl from preschool, a teacher stopped me with a question: “would you like some lettuce?” For the last term, the preschool class had...
Listen: Ballymaloe Litfest 2016
We came, we learned, we loved every minute of it. The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest 2016 was an absolute corker, from Francis Mallman’s 4am fire vigal, the Claire Ptak-Jeremy Lee comedy duo /cookery demo, Irish cider...