Blogosphere Finds: Fun Foodies
Today I’ve a quick roundup of some of my favourite finds from the ever-expanding foodie blogosphere. I’ve mostly my younger, cooler and thoroughly more fun little brother to thank for the headsup re...
View ArticleOdlums Cake Club
It’s not often I extol the virtues of the advertising department of a large corporate entity, (in fact, I’m often the one calling them out) but hey, I’m in one of those moods. And before the cynics...
View ArticleThe Great Irish Bake-Off: Call for Applicants
If food is the new rock and roll, cakes are the new Elvis. Since the roaring success of the Great British Bake Off (now on Season Three and over 4.5m viewers), the baking star is on the rise, evident...
View ArticleKildare Cookery: Le Creuset Cooking Demonstration, Kildare Village
Yes, yes I’m banging on about Kildare stuff again, but hey, it’s my home for a couple of days a week, so I have to get my foodie fixes somewhere! This particular foodie event caught my eye the other...
View ArticleFree Rachel Allen Recipe E-Book
As a self-confessed cookbook addict, I love the freebie ‘tasters’ that do the rounds when there’s a new one on the publisher’s list. Sometimes they take the form of little booklets slipped into...
View ArticleWeekend Plans: Limerick’s Georgian Winter Market
Set in the beautiful Georgian Quarter overlooking People’s Park, No. 1 Hotel & Spa & Pery Square will this weekend play host to Limerick’s Georgian Market Christmas Market, running from 23rd to...
View ArticleFood and Wine Magazine Christmas Show: With Half-Price Tickets!
This year’s three-day Food and Wine extravaganza kicks off at 4pm tomorrow, Friday 30th November and rolls right through until 7pm Sunday 2nd November 2012. It promises to be a heck of a way to start...
View ArticleGood Friday? How ‘good’ will you be?
So good (mostly) Catholics of Ireland, I’m intrigued – how will you be spending Good Friday? It’s an argument that will be thrashed out all across the airwaves this week and leads me to wonder is the...
View ArticleFree Stuff Alert – New Knorr ‘Highly Versatile’ Range
Monday’s post brought a household tax demand, a TV licence reminder and, curiously, an offer for a free hearing aid. At 28. But for once, this avalanche of Harp-marked envelopes was accompanied by...
View ArticleTop 5 Nuclear-War Foods….y’know, just in case, like….
I recently read a book called “The Things That Keep Us Here”. As this isn’t a book-reviewing blog (yet!), I’ll keep it simple. Bird Flu hits. Birds die. Bird Flu mutates. People die. The end....
View ArticleTourist Menu Horrors – the Dos and Don’t of Ordering in Ireland
Recently, the OH and I had the pleasure of wandering around Dublin one evening looking for a simple bite to eat. It is the height of tourist season, and everywhere we turned the streets were heaving...
View ArticleNew Year, New Me
So in this time of big plans, pious declarations and diet torture I’ve made a few resolutions myself. One is to take a deep breath and let go of the old in order to step into the new. A big part of...
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