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Best In Season

The folks over at Bord Bia (the Irish food board) have been in touch to let me know their horticultural department have just launched www.bestinseason.ie a site to explain what fruit and vegetables are available in Ireland and what’s ‘Best In Season’. The site aims to explain the benefits of eating fresh produce grown within [...]

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Leftover Potato Omelette

Ignoring last weeks indulgence of dining out and continuing with ‘waste not, want not’ theme new potatoes are in season at the moment. Rather than throw the left-overs away they are great to make a really tasty omelette with. Really quick and easy, perfect for a lunchtime snack. Ingredients One onion, halved and sliced. Half [...]

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Yassi’s Lemon Spuds

As messy-chef is proud to serve and because JD asked nicely then it’s time to post the Lemon Spuds I mentioned in the post about SuperValu doing cheap chicken (pun intended). It’s actually Yassi’s recipe, not mine, so I’ll give her the credit. Happy St Patrick’s Day! Ingredients: (for 2) 5 or 6 potatoes cut [...]

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Irish Blog Awards 2009

I am delighted to make the Irish Blog Awards Long List of nominees for the best food/drink blog kindly sponsored by Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board). Its a great thrill and I’ve found some great new sites thanks to the list. Here they are, go and check them out: Italian Foodies iFoods.tv Littlebird Eats [...]

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Start the Day

I had breakfast in O’Sullivan’s (Sully’s) Bar in Douglas Village recently, mostly on our Saturday morning visits we just have a coffee but the fry is excellent. Proper sausages, not the cheap and nasty deep fried jumbo ones, proper rashers and they put the beans in a little dish so they don’t travel all over [...]

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Grow Your Own

It’s mid-June and the sun is shining, perfect for growing. However garden space is tight. I’ve often thought I’d like a place in the country and grow some ‘things’, I’m not green fingered so I’m not sure what type of ‘things’ I’d actually like to grow but the concept sort of appeals to me. The [...]

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Welcome

Welcome to my Blog on cooking. Hopefully this will extend to a bit more than just cooking, I’d also like to try cover everything related: eating; drinking: recipes; wine; beer; ingredients; growing; maybe some reviews. In order to give this blog a bit more of a focus it would be nice to incorporate some local [...]

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