Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
When the Blog Awards Ireland longlist was recently released, I was thrilled to discover Bibliocook nominated in three categories. I’m there in the food/drink category, the popculture list and, most astoundingly of all, in the...
I love pies – beef pies, chicken pies, spinach pies, I’ll take all comers! – but the single-crust sort I make normally falls firmly into the winter warmer category. Not so the traditional Kiwi...
Friday night: end of the week-time, start of the weekend, relaxed dinner – and maybe-a-glass-of-something-time? A few weeks ago, with long-packed boxes finally emerging from the attic at the brewery, I was thrilled to rediscover...
Demos / Do / Irish beer & cider / Work
by Caroline · Published July 31, 2012 · Last modified September 5, 2017
If you’re around West Cork over the August Bank Holiday weekend, you might just want to take yourself along to Liss Ard 2012, a festival of music, literature, drama and (very importantly!) food. I’ll...
Something good just got better. Take your favourite chocolate brownie recipe, dot the brown, cocoa-rich batter with dollops of a simple vanilla cheesecake mixture, swirl and bake. Irresistible? They never seem to last long here....
Do / Eating Out / Food Events
by Caroline · Published July 20, 2012 · Last modified January 10, 2018
Clear blue skies and sunshine + plenty of good food = lots of happy people at yesterday’s opening of the Cork Food Festival in Fitzgerald’s Park. It’s on until Sunday, with admission a reasonable €12,...
Homemade cheese from your own kitchen? Why not! This mozzarella recipe literally takes 30 minutes (or, if you have a couple of small helpers, a shade over the 45 minute side of things) and...
If the Husband were to be asked to name his favourite meal, what do you think it would be? My Roast Chicken with Garlic and Lemon? Spiced Lamb with potatoes from the garden? Perhaps a...
