My recent trip to the Waterford Festival of Food (Ireland) has many, many enjoyable moments but for me the outstanding event was the pop-up restaurant ‘The Brewer, the Blogger, the Baker’. Great food, great style and a great vibe. Here are my thoughts on the event. Wish you were there. In fact I wish I could relive it to sample more of the menu!
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Pancake Day is a mere glance away and the shelves are beginning to sag under the weight of pancake mixes. Before you rush off and batter up spend a moment to think about all the wonderful different types of pancakes you can make and not just for Pancake Day! We often have breakfast pancakes on the weekend and here’s a spicy, gluten-free savoury pancake that’s begging to be made regularly. Oh, and in the process of making it I fell in love.
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What would Christmas be without the waft of turkey? I love turkey and a recent visit to a turkey farm only made me realise just how good this much-maligned bird can taste. But to get a good bird you need to rear it with care and attention to detail. Well I think I’ve found a turkey that can satisfy the harshest critic of the golden bird.
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I was delighted to receive a copy of Niamh Shields’ new cookbook “Comfort & Spice”. I know Niamh personally but knew her well before meeting her as leading food blogger eatlikeagirl. Her new cookbook captures her personality and warmth perfectly and the recipes come with the tips and witty writing we’ve all come to expect from her blog. But would they stand up to the test in the kitchen? What do you think!
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When I lived in Ireland yoghurt was generally thin and sugary and quite unpleasant. It wasn’t until I had travelled to France, Belgium and Germany that I first had lovely sour yoghurt. Combining it with stewed fruit or fresh honey opened my tastebuds. For a very long time one could only dream of decent yoghurt in Ireland. In recent years Glenilen Farm has led the way out of the yoghurt wilderness and expanded into other fabulous dairy products. Here I catch up with co-owner, Valerie Kingston, as she talks about how the company she and her husband, Alan, was started and how it developed.
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