summer loveliness!

there is little i love more than fresh shellfish – and a lazy summer evening isnt complete without some langoustines! So simple to do – yet so indulgent to eat – the perfect combination in…

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tagine kefta

last christmas m & i where gifted a le creuset tagine – a beautiful red one – and despite our excitement and joy at eventually owning such a beautiful bit of kitchen ware – i…

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Homemade Chicken Kievs

Chicken Kievs. Something that never blessed my childhood. I heard about them. I saw them in the school canteen. But they’re reformed chickeniness never attracted me to them… A surplus of wild garlic butter had me…

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northern irish oddities

many things about life in northern ireland puzzled me, when 12 years ago, as a teenager, i first moved here from my village up bringing on the outskirts of dublin the strange way of splitting…

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the end of the wild garlic

on saturday – while staring off into the distance – i suddenly realised – the time had come for the end of the stocks of wild garlic!!!!! so as soon as i got home, i…

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