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The Good Things Cafe – The 2 Day Kitchen Miracle Programme
I spent last weekend on a fabulous 2-day cookery course down in deep West Cork in The Good Things Cafe in Durrus. I honestly won’t be able to come up with enough superlatives to describe the fantastic...
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Conor’s Christmas Cookbook Collection
UPDATE 1: Normally when I do reviews I use the Structured Blogging plug-in. Its biggest flaw is that you can only do one review per post and the “reviews” below do not warrent separate posts. An...
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Margherita Madness
Inspired by Red Mum’s recent pizza making post, the awesome DiFara Pizza story and my experiences in The Good Things Cafe recently, I decided to make some pizza-pies with the two middle childer...
View ArticleI love it when a lashed-together meal just works
Pork chops in the fridge and no plan. What to do that we’ll all eat? Check the press – a Lloyd Grossman Puttanesca sauce looks out at me. Hell, I’ll make my own. Chops into a ziplock with garlic,...
View ArticleConor’s ultra secret Chicken Tikka Masala recipe
Handed down through generations of sufi mystics and carried by the Priory of Sion to Bandon where it remained undiscovered in a secret vault until excavations found the ancient stone etchings, I can...
View ArticleHeston Blumenthal – tickling multiple bones
I saw the first episode of Heston’s cookery series on TV this evening. He simultaneously tickled my foodie and engineering fancies with some of the things he showed. He deconstructed the classic Black...
View ArticleTraffic Lights on Food – give me patience.
It appears the opposition parties have started their campaign to lose the next general election with their latest himbo/bimbo scheme which they picked up from the UK. They want traffic lights on food...
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De Cecco doesn’t have to worry
My sister Orla bought me a pasta machine for Christmas and I finally got around to trying it out on Saturday. Myself and Sibéal decided to make a mix of tagliatelle and spaghetti. Neither of us had...
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At what point in the 1980′s/1990′s did back bacon take over from streaky bacon? I assume it was all the low-fat food nazis who caused it to happen. Go to Tesco Wilton now and in an entire row of bacon,...
View ArticleReview of Guerrilla Gourmet (Ep 02)
After the first travesty of an episode I swore I’d never watch another but the lure of Denis Cotter in Bandon was too much. This is Gimmicky Garbage TV with a half decent programme buried somewhere far...
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Fun Food in Arthurstown
A brilliant gift of a cookery course in Dunbrody by my fabulous sister-in-law Paula led to one of the best day’s out I’ve had in ages. Interesting and enjoyable in every way without a dull moment in a...
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Think your killer recipe would sell in a supermarket?
Aisling from RTE in Cork contacted a bunch of Irish bloggers about a new show they are doing. I’m thrilled she did, considering it’s exactly what I recommended only a few weeks ago in the context of my...
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Pork & Sons Review
I was given this lovely book for Christmas 2007 and finally finished it last month. What initially appears to be a coffee-table resident turned out to be one of the best books on food I’ve ever read....
View ArticleNew Competition For Amateur Cooks, Growers, Bakers and Smallholder
This is just a superb idea, well done to everyone involved! Why not enter? The inaugural Grow Bake Cook Awards Ceremony honours and celebrates the skills of amateur cooks, growers, bakers and...
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Good Things Cafe should be called Awesome Things Cafe
Two days of fantastic fish recipes by a wonderful teacher in a perfect setting. Not much more to say than that. But I will. Three years ago I did a cookery course down in Good Things Cafe with Carmel...
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Live Pre-packed Mussels – Genius Idea
I popped into the fish shop in Bantry today and spotted these. A fully sealed pack of live local mussels. I have long lamented the lack of fresh shellfish in shops in Cork and now they have no excuse....
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A Kitchen Paradise in Bantry
We recently discovered this shop as it seems to be the only one in a few hundred miles of Bandon that sells Sodastream gas refills. Catherine popped down a few weeks ago to get two refills and raved...
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Our Food Past or Our Food Future?
I was given this heavy tome by the publishers to review and months later I’m finally getting my thoughts down. Whilst it is a fantastic collection of recipes and information that all Irish cooks should...
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Diary of A Virgin Semi-Veggie, Part 2
So we’re what, maybe 4 weeks into the experiment? Overall it’s going great apart from the giant hole in the ozone layer that my methane is creating I’m still picking at the odd bit of ham/turkey and...
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