I suppose at this stage Christmas and New Years is a distant memory for most, but I hope everyone had as nice a festive season as I had. Back to reality with a bang there on Monday and back to business as usual with the blog. I am loath to use the ‘D’ word […]
There, I’ve said it… I’ve dropped the C word! If there is any bit of a Grinch about you, you might want to avoid this little bit of the internet for the next few weeks. I have plenty more festive recipes coming up.
A friend recently gave me a lovely gift of her homemade blackberry jam. I have to confess some evenings I have been just having bread with this jam as my dinner! We were chatting about picking blackberries and I said I got a notion to make a blackberry crumble. She gave me a tip to […]
I like making tapas. It’s a lot of work but I think it is worth the effort. I like eating them even more! After doing the Tapas Trail and then going on holidays where we had tapas several evenings, I decided it was time to get a patatas bravas recipe I was happy with. I […]
I have decided that I need to do more chocolate recipes – any excuse! So my new aim is to do one chocolate recipe every month. This is my most recent fix for my chocolate habit. I was hoping to do Tom Kerridge’s mousse from his Proper Pub Food but it required the use of […]
I had a full punnet of strawberries in the fridge that were about to turn and was looking for something to do with them. Also, it was Great British Bake off evening so I needed to have cake!
The trouble with watermelon is that when there are only 2 of you, it’s hard to get through a whole one! Even though I managed to buy half a watermelon in the English Market for €2.50, I still had plenty left over after making a lovely feta and watermelon salad. Then I remembered seeing a […]
In case you have not had enough chocolate over Easter, I’m bringing you another chocolate recipe! If you have leftover Easter eggs and are not sure what to do with them you could make this pie. It is another recipe adapted from Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen. It is a very decadent but so easy, […]