Turkish Lentil Soup Have you been to Turkey yet??? If not, you missed another chance last Thursday as Turkey came to Blarney. Our Turkish Night in Blarney kicked off at 7:30 with Vakkas & Mehmet of The Half Moon Cafe greeted us and cooked the most amazing food for us with no Kebab to be…
It has been ages since I took lunch to work – having free yoghurt, fruit, nuts and lots of cookies for free kinda makes you lazy. But since I don’t like fruit very much (I know, silly of me) my intake on lovely cookies has been taken to the limit now. For the first time…
Bia Sásta has teamed up with the Half Moon Cafe in Blarney for a special evening of Turkish food. Head chef Vakkas Corapli will cook a 5 course tasting menu for us to show the variety of Turkish Food – and guess what, not a Kebab in sight. Learn about the people, traditions and the…
Not sure about you but I love kitchen gadgets – not that I have many, apart from my mixer, grinder and amazing kitchen machine (oh, and I have an espresso machine – ok, Mr T has) but I love to walk through kitchen shops and think, if I had a bigger kitchen (my kitchen is…
I should bake a lot more than I do at the moment so I rampaged through my cupboards the other day to see what I had to transform into something yummylicious and found a bag of walnuts….. shouldn’t we all eat more nuts??These cookies are easy to make and are not too ‘walnutty’ in case…
I have heard from Arthur Mayne a few weeks back when Kate Lawlor tweeted from the bar and I was of course intrigued. I haven’t been out in town (Cork City that is) for a while and was a bit out of touch with things happening so close to my doorstep. So last Saturday was…
The last few weeks I was doing a sewing class with Sew For Fun and had time to kill. Last Tuesday I had my heart set to have a nice pizza and opted for Cafe Bar Deli. I have been a few times – the last time was Summer 2010. Considering the time (5:30pm) the…
My love for food started in Turkey where I stayed 27 years ago with a friend and her family. Cooking and eating was a big part of their daily routine. Families and friends gathered around a big table and the cooking was an affair of love and labour in equal measures but you never cooked…
I always love making sweets and chocolates – not that I am addicted to sweets myself, but I love making them and put them in little boxes as gifts to friends. It also helps that Mr T got a really sweet tooth. My first fudge a few weeks back was made with condensed milk and…
We had friends over last Sunday but with Manchester United and Cork playing, timing was off an essence. Anita & Andrea were expected at 6:30 and the matches were both at 4pm….you can imagine the precise planning necessary to be able to watch the matches and to present a nice dinner at 6:30. Soup is…