Summer (what summer?) is over and the evenings are closing in. On the plus side Heineken Cup Rugby is back and we don’t have to endlessly listen to folks moan about the Irish Summer. Winter has its advantages. In keeping with a more robust approach to food for shorter evenings I saw Jamie Oliver do [...]
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Carrot and Ginger Soup
I’m back from my holidays in Spain and a nice break in Cambrils. Nothing much to report on the food side, we spent the time BBQing steak and home-made burgers and doing some simple pasta dishes. Of course the wine is extraordinarily cheap, €4 for a Torres Viña Sol which retails for over twice that [...]
Tom Yum Gai (Spicy Chicken Soup)
You see this on a lot of Thai menus, as with every other dish served in Asian restaurants the recipe differs from house to house so there’s no set way of doing this. I’ve been cooking it as a starter or snack for a while now but eventually figured that if you add noodles to [...]
