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You can’t beat the taste and aroma of freshly baked bread

Arbutus’ Granny Ryan’s West Cork Brown Soda Mix One of the many stalls we visited whilst at the Taste of Cork festival was Declan Ryan’s Arbutus bread one. After sampling the delicious bread we decided to purchase a few bags of his West Cork Brown Soda Mix to take home. Finally got organised enough to [...]

Yummmm

A Taste of my Life 2008 What are the dishes and food that you remember from your childhood? As the eldest of 7 children, with only 10 years between me and the youngest, I recall there always being a mad rush around mealtimes when we were younger. The main meals I remember are fried liver [...]

Little Caesars Pizza

Little Caesars Pizza, Midway Food Court, Portlaoise, Ireland On Wednesday afternoon, we were driving from Bandon to Ratoath in Meath when we decided to stop at the Midway food court in Portlaoise as both adults and the 5 kids were hungry, tired and in need of a break. We have stopped there previously and enjoyed [...]

The King and Castle

The King and Castle pub, 15–16 Thames Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1PL, United Kingdom Whilst on our Legoland trip a fortnight ago, we decided to eat out in Windsor on the Saturday night. We had intended finding a family friendly Italian restaurant or similar and rather naively hadn’t booked anywhere. We arrived into Windsor around [...]

Anyone for noodles?

Wagamama, 4-5 South Main Street, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland photo credit: adactio After swimming earlier today, we decided to eat out en famille. Having been to Wagamama in Cork previously and having been very happy with that visit, we decided to return today. As always the staff were very friendly, attentive and efficient. Its a [...]

Review of Great British Menu – Welsh Week

Great British Menu – Series 3 Wales Regional Heat I confess I had been disappointed with the first regional final last week of this TV series. None of the dishes greatly appealed to me and some in fact did the opposite. But this week its the turn of Angela Hartnett and Stephen Terry to compete in the four course [...]

Does anyone like cauliflower?

It is in my humble opinion a gawdawful vegetable. Euugh. photo credit: bunnicula Was watching the second episode of The Great British Menu last night and neither of the fish courses did anything for me, especially this one as at the addition of cauliflower I just had to turn off.

Review of The Bosun

The Bosun, Monkstown, Co. Cork, Ireland   Last Sunday we weren’t really in the humour for cooking and fancied heading out en famille for some late lunch. We wanted something more than fastfood but with 5 young kids haute cuisine isn’t often an option. So off we headed to The Bosun pub in Monkstown. The location of this pub/restaurant is great, overlooking [...]

Review of Boqueria

Boqueria, 6 Bridge Street, Corkl, Ireland “Friendly efficient service of tasty food in a pub/restaurant that had a good atmosphere early evening mid week.“   Despite living in Cork now for nearly 5 years last night was only the first time I’d been to the Boqueria tapas bar. We decided to do a midweek outing [...]

Review of Guerrilla Gourmet, Series 1 Episode 3, RTE

Guerrilla Gourmet, Series 1 Episode 3, RTE “After a not so good start to this series, I enjoyed this episode as it was less gimmicky, more food and chef focussed.“   The first two episodes of this series I have to admit bugged me a bit. Kevin Dundon and Denis Cotter are both chefs who [...]

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