If you’ve come to these pages in search of a recipe let me direct you towards one that I published last year for Mother’s Day. An indulgent treat, a sublime concoction in the form of a chocolate orange mousse cake. I do my cooking, baking, recipe experimentation and photography at the weekends but last weekend [...]
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Something for the weekend…
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Inchydoney Island Lodge & Spa, West Cork on March 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Irish Cheese Board
Posted in Dinner Party, Special Occasion, tagged Cashel Blue, Glebe Brethan, irish Cheese, Knockrinna, Milleens on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The next time you need to stock a cheese board, you can smugly load it with these goodies in the knowledge that they were good enough for HM Queen Elizabeth II. These 4 Irish cheeses were selected by Ross Lewis of Chapter One (Michelin Star restaurant in Dublin) to serve at the State Dinner held [...]
Pancake Tuesday
Posted in Baking Day, Special Occasion, tagged Fat Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday on March 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Mardi Gras, literally translated as Fat Tuesday is also known as Shrove Tuesday or Tuesday of Carnival around the world but in my house it’s always been known as Pancake Tuesday and will be celebrated on the 8th of March this year. The build-up and anticipation has begun. In fact there’s been a lot of practicing [...]
New Year and a Kir Royale
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Kir, Kir Petillant, Kir Royale on December 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thankfully it has to end sometime and midnight on the 31st December is when the excesses shall halt. The endless flow of wine and supply of chocolate will come to an end and we’ll gladly squeeze into our running gear and hit the roads and beaches on the 1st January 2011. There is a tradition [...]
Christmas 2010 (and the leftovers…)
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Christmas Leftovers on December 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
So, how was it for you? I can honestly say that for us, as a family of 8, this was the best Christmas yet. With so much build up to the meal, it is nice to be at a stage where they can all cut their own meat and mash their own spuds and this year [...]
Mulled wine by an open fire..
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Minced Pies, Mulled Wine on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As I type my fingers are moving in a chunky, slow motioned, semi frozen state, like half thawed out sausages. Yes, the boiler is on the blink again and the house is freezing. Luckily, we’ve got a service guy clanging away downstairs and sausages crossed that he’ll get it going again today. If not we’ll [...]
Icing on the cake.
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Christmas Cake Icing, Christmas Chutney on December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I sat down to watch Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s ’Christmas Fayre’ last night and much as I tried to relax and just enjoy the programme I couldn’t help but grab my pen and scribble down his Chutney recipe. (500g onions, 1kg apples, 500ml cider vinegar, 400g demerera sugar to which he added figs, cranberries, zest and juice of orange and glug of port then [...]
Christmas Table
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Boulevard Interiors, Christmas Table, Hampton Villa, Meadows & Byrne on December 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you stick to tradition you’ll probably be choosing gold, silver and red to dress your Christmas table. Daring to be different you might splash out with fuchsia, turquoise, purple or minimalist winter white but whatever you pick, bring it all together with a centre piece that will underpin your colour scheme. This could be [...]
She’s making a list…
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Christmas Dinner Plan, Christmas Lists on December 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The Lists: Going from being ahead of myself, all organised and daring to mention Christmas and making the cake in September, to approaching mid December with the countdown well underway and finding that not much else has been done is causing occasional twinges of anxiety. So it’s time to start writing lists. #1. The Pressie Shopping [...]
The Indoor Picnic
Posted in Special Occasion, tagged Breheny's Bellish, Comte, Gubbeen, On the Pigs's Back, Picnic on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What do you do when it’s lashing rain outside but too hot, heavy and humid to cook? You have an in-door picnic. It couldn’t be easier. You’re at home so there’s no danger of a forgotten corkscrew although on this occasion one wasn’t required as a bottle of bubbles had waited long enough for an [...]
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