Bit of a tenuous link but I recently ate in the Rowan Tree in Ennis….see what I did there…tree, leaf/leave… 🙂 Anyway back to the serious matter at hand….the Rowan Tree. The restaurant is in a lovely old building which also houses the Rowan Tree hostel and used to be the Clare gentlemen’s club, for the great […]
We found ourselves in Limerick on Sunday looking for somewhere for lunch and seeing as La Cucina wasn’t open we decided to try Casa Nostra, it had popped up on a friends facebook recently – the power of facebook eh?! The restaurant is in a very high ceiling-ed room and they’ve gone for a rustic decor. The […]
Last Friday I had 7 people over for dinner…not a huge number but enough to keep you on your toes. I’d carefully planned the menu so that most was done before they arrived. Starter was blue cheese, poached pear and walnut salad. For main we had beef cooked in cream, wine and brandy (Rachel Allen […]
I’m having a dinner party on Friday so preparations are well under way. With the menu decided last week I’ve planned out what I can get done in the evenings leading up so that I’m not stressed on Friday. Yesterday I sorted out one element of my starter, the beautiful sugared walnuts. I can’t remember […]
I recently came across a recipe in a trashy women’s mag that caught my eye….so I sneakily tore it out and saved it for when I had time to make it. At the time I didn’t realise that the recipe was on the back of a picture of a semi naked hunk – Mr T […]
Yesterday I found myself in Dublin with Mamar and my youngest sibling. The hunt for ski gear finally resulted in success and lunch was required….the Pepperpot in the Powerscourt centre was the chosen spot, a favorite of mine since it opened. The Christmas decorations are still up in Powerscourt – the gallery where the Pepperpot […]
I’m into food and feeding…I love to eat and cook and spend lots of my time thinking about and planning where and what to eat. My interest in food came from my mother, a great home cook, who is always good for recipe advice or a dinner date if my other half, Mr T, is […]
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