Feast: Slow Cooked Lamb with Cider and Pomegranate
When you wake up in the morning and there’s snow on the ground, it’s a good time to put on the oven. A few Sundays ago we had guests coming for lunch, but I...
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Buttermilk Pancakes
Pancake Tuesday is almost upon us and my pair of smallies have decided that they’re having pancakes for breakfast, in their lunchboxes, for afternoon, after-school snacks and dinner. That’s their plan. So far. I’m...
City life: Belfast
A fabulous, feel-good beer festival in a deconsecrated Methodist church. Crunchy whitebait cichetti at Coppi. Instagram-perfect weekend brunches at Established Coffee, that taste even better than they look. Belfast, in 2017, was an exciting, fun, friendly, food-filled city...
Feast: Spanakopita in New Zealand
The Kiwi has four sisters. Each of them is married. Each couple has two children, ranging in age from our eight-year-old Little Missy down to the newest addition, a sleepy, snuggly sausage of a...
City life: Cork with The Gannet
When you get an email from The Gannet, asking you if you’d be interested in taking a couple of people on a tour of Cork city, with a particular focus on pubs and microbreweries,...
Gingerbread House 2017
It’s a wrap! Gingerbread House 2017, a tradition that I started when the Small Girl was a babe in arms and Little Missy a determined two-and-a-half year old toddler, has been completed. Made from...
Cookbooks for Christmas 2017
I never can resist a new cookbook. I love the thrill of cracking the spine so that I can lay it out on the table to read over breakfast. I can let the morning...
Slow cooker apples + apple sponge
When life hands you apples, it’s time to make stewed apples, and apple-glazed pork ribs, and – most importantly – apple sponge. The girls and I went for a walk down the fields on...