Interesting how attitudes and businesses change over a relatively short period of time. I remember when I was growing up the milkman was essentially a part of the community, we all knew him and, from time to time, he’d let us ride along in the milk float. Times change and that’s no longer the case [...]
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Home Made Burgers
With the recent spell of nice weather the BBQs have been dragged out and fired up. I found that home made burgers don’t really mix well with the BBQ grille as they can fall apart, the trick is to cook them in the pan and then transfer for a minute or two at the end [...]
Buy local and get it delivered.
Maybe the continued eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland and its impact on air travel should also make us think a bit about air freight and how far some of our produce, which could be sourced in Ireland, has traveled thousands of miles to get to the shelves. Irish farmers have been marginalised by big supermarkets [...]
Win a Barry’s Tea Gift Pack
‘The Irish are a nation of tea drinkers’ is a phrase you hear from time to time on the radio or in the papers and its not an untrue statement, just as true as saying the English or the Chinese are tea drinkers but saying it makes the Irish feel unique and special about our [...]
Diago launch Guinness Black Lager
Interesting to read that Guinness (Diago) are launching a “black lager” which they describe as having “a unique taste which is an evolution in lager making”. Whether this is a good or a bad thing remains to be seen as it will initially only go on sale in Northern Ireland for the next six to [...]
Knife skills … for cooking
Nothing gangsta to be seen here, a four minute video on how to become a kitchen ninja while not losing any digits in the process: How To Learn Basic Knife Skills from Apartment Therapy: The Kitchn on Vimeo.
Peter Dowdall on allotments and growing your own veg.
I like to prattle on about buying local produce but how about going one better and start growing your own? The idea of allotments in Ireland is not really a brand new thing, you can visit http://www.irishallotments.net/ or http://www.allotments.ie/ for a list of instructions but it does seem to be on the up these days. [...]
Martijn Kajuiter awarded a Michelin star
Having written about the Cliff House Hotel on a few occasions, we enjoyed a stunning dinner there last summer, I was delighted to hear (via twitter) that Executive Head Chef Martijn Kajuiter has been awarded a Michelin star. Martijn and his team use all local produce to produce some stunning and absolutely unique food. Although [...]
Chateau Lynch Bages 1985
From time to time I write about wine but apart from knowing what is nice and what is not nice I don’t have the wine vocabulary to get my point across very well. I leave that to the experts you can see listed over on the right-hand column down towards the bottom of the page. [...]
Top ten tips for a stress free Christmas dinner
The countdown is upon us and daytime TV is full of TV programmes telling us how to have the best Christmas dinner ever and how to make your dinner table look like something Harry Potter would be proud to sit at during a Hogwarts feast. Nothing wrong with that if you have all day to [...]
