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...
Author: Caroline
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...
New kitchen taking shape
It might feel like a long time but thanks to my wonderful builder (on time, on budget, fantastic to deal with), the cottage is finished – all, bar the painting. And the flooring but,...
Sausage and Potato Bake
No matter what the weather – even if it’s a grey and gloomy July day – you can’t go wrong with a dinner that you toss together, plonk into a couple of large baking...
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...