Just arrived
Meaty stews and wholesome soups, egg-in-an-eggcup for breakfast and mid-afternoon hunks of cheese with apples: my latest long-term cooking project came to an end early last Thursday morning and now it’s feed-me-up time. Our...
Author: Caroline
The Ginger Pig Meat Book by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde
Tim Wilson started off keeping a few rare breed pigs; 15 years later he heads up a successful business with four busy London butcher’s shops, under the name The Ginger Pig, which are supplied...
Wild Damson Vodka
When we bought the cottage we were lucky enough to acquire an old damson tree. The trunk and branches were mossy and gnarled and, come autumn, it turned out that the fruit wasn’t great...
Irish food photography workshop
Ask food bloggers to bring something sweet to have with coffee and just look what you get: a mouthwatering array of beautifully baked and lovingly packaged treats. And they were just the icing on...
Berlin: Bashful dining with the Shy Chef
An email conversation with Aoife at I Can Has Cook about her forthcoming trip to Berlin reminded me of the time I spent there with a six-month-old Little Missy while the Husband did his...
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...
Almost baked
She’s growing up fast. Not so long ago Little Missy was taking her first adventures into food, relishing an early taste of wild blackberries; now she’s getting stuck into baking and, as you can...
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...