“The Only Thing to do with Good Advice is Pass it On” Oscar Wilde Clodagh McKenna’s Cork Beef Stew from The Irish Farmer’s Market Cookbook is a real favourite of mine and is a frequently made winter warmer of a dish. Generally I’d served a big bowl of it alongside some fluffy mashed potatoes or [...]
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When I read about Deeba’s Praline Pumpkin Pie over on Twitter a few weeks ago I just had to make it myself. The recipe originally comes from the book Park Avenue Potluck Celebrations; but as per usual I’ve made a few changes along the way. Pumpkin pie is a traditional North American sweet dessert, a [...]
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Not so long back I visited Cley Next The Sea in North Norfolk, a lovely place and one that I would return to again and again. The village is home to a fabulous Smokehouse, and of course I just had to bring back a sample of their delightful produce home with me. All the smoking [...]
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I didn’t go visiting the famous lavender fields when I went to Norfolk but I did buy a lavender plant and some lavender honey, oh and I did mange to get this shot of Murphy playing camouflage behind the huge lavender bush in our holiday cottage. I had a huge glut of apples sitting in my fruit [...]
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Summertime and the livin’s easy, Fish are jumpin’, and the cotton is high. Summertime – DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin We arrived back from Norfolk at the weekend, oh how I wish I was still there! It couldn’t have been more perfect, glorious weather (apart from one afternoon of rain), lovely places to visit, early morning [...]
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I’m sorry I just couldn’t resist the title, playing on the title of Wild Garlic, Gooseberries and Me: A Chef’s Stories and Recipes from the Land (Denis Cotter), which by the way is an utterly fabulous vegetarian book, well written with lots of gorgeous recipes that make even the most carnivorous of folks drool. So back to me and [...]
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A few weeks back I was contacted by a company who aid website owners in optimising their website to gain more traffic and, in turn, more customers from the search engines; thus improving their customer base too. So how did this apply to me? What role would I have? Well I was asked to test out, and blog [...]
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You’re probably already rather sick of me going on and on about the lovely time I had in Norfolk and all the lovely produce I bought, well if you are skip this post because the entire meal I’m about to describe came from, you’ve guessed it Norfolk with a little help from an Irish cookbook,The [...]
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There is something totally unbeatable about a good pork pie – the texture and flavours mingle together to provide a mouthwatering sensation, that drives you back for a second bite, or maybe if you’re on the greedy side to eat that second pie. Wether that wow factor is the crisp and crumbly yet chewy pastry; [...]
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As you’re probably aware from reading my previous posts here, Violets Pantry held a monthly food challenge. This has now changed and we’re having a fortnightly challenge, in which we (the forum members) are given a choice of three items to prepare and blog about, detailing anything we change, any problems we had and [...]
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Last night we had a delightful meal, although it did seem to take forever when I’d hoped it would be quick & easy after a busy morning at work. Ah well it could (and normally I would) be argued that there is no better way to relax that to potter round the kitchen preparing some [...]
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