Holiday eating with kids
Long, lazy lunches, enormous post-beach ice creams that threatened to melt down our arms, strolling down to the local bakery to get chocolate croissants for breakfast, popping out for café con leche and freshly...
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5 kitchen essentials for a self catering holiday + a simple lentil salad
We’re off on holidays next week and kitchen decisions have to be made. Normally we drive to France, bringing all manner of cooking paraphernalia (just short of the kitchen sink) and tins full of...
Killarney Beerfest: beer and food
This year’s beer and food event at Killarney Beerfest was a little different; I got to work with Chad Byrne, head chef at The Brehon, who cooked on site and presented a selection of...
Ballymaloe Litfest 2017
We came, we learned, we ate, we caffeinated ourselves (regularly), we danced our legs off, we were challenged, inspired, motivated: #Litfest17 or, more precisely, A Food and Drinks Literacy Festival at Ballymaloe, was a...
LitFest 2017: A Food and Drinks Literacy Festival at Ballymaloe
Five years. Five years of learning and cooking and growing and inspiration and bringing the best of the world’s food writers to East Cork. Five years of the Ballymaloe LitFest. That’s where I’ve been moved by René...
Cookery Demo + Greek Yoghurt Chocolate Pots
That brief spurt of sunshine earlier in the week had us all digging out the shorts and flip flops and lighter recipes for warmer times. The girls thought that it was summer. They plotted to have...
St Patrick’s Day Bake: Irish Stout Blackcurrant Cheesecake Brownies
Putting a dash of blackcurrant in a pint of stout was a tradition I was introduced to when I first started drinking. I wasn’t a stout drinker initially (it took several gigs at the...
Local Enterprise Week 2017: Taste Cork – Brand Storytelling
If you’re interested in storytelling around brand building, particularly if you work in the food industry, Taste Cork is holding a free half day conference in Kinsale tomorrow from 9am. It’s part of Local...