The German Files: Potato -Leek Soup Have you noticed that when you get older, you start thinking more and more about things of your childhood? At least I am – about games my nan used to play with me (I think she was borderline gambling addicted as I learned a lot of card games), watching…
Irish Food Writer Guild Awards Once a year, the Irish Food Writer Guild Awards are being held in Dublin to showcase and celebrate the best in Irish food. Members of the guild are watching Irish producers throughout the year and nominate a person/company who they believe deserves this award. The writer has to buy the…
Easy Tasty Tomato Soup Who doesn’t love a good tomato soup? Did you know that Tomato Soup is the most sold ready-made soup in supermarkets (next to mushroom soup)? One reason could be that most people are deterred by the thought of peeling a pile of tomatoes. I have made tomato soup for years by…
A Row of Canapés As regular readers of this blog (or followers on my Facebook Page) know, my friend Carol has been coming over for a ‘catch-up’ for a number of years now. Although we live only a few minutes walk away from each other, it’s the only time we see each other. We have…
London for Food Lovers It is not often that Mr T wants to go to the big smoke but two weeks ago, we boarded the plane and swished over to London. I have been to London many times but have never really written about the food experiences yet. London is a melting pot of different…
Food Stars 2017 At the start of every year, I look back and think about the food people who have impressed me most. Some people appear every year as they are consistently impressing me, other fall off as others take their place. This never means that I am not impressed anymore or think they are…
Food Photography – Course @ CIT As readers of my column in the Cork Independent already know, I am attending a Food Photography Course in CIT. What I assumed to be a sail-through course with a bit of fun turned into something that seems to be consuming me now. I learned a lot during the…
Cookbook Review: Neven Maguire’s Perfect Irish Christmas Having met Neven Maguire at one of his Dunnes Stores Simply Better cookery demonstrations and having had the pleasure of interviewing him, I have to admit that I became a big fan of the man. His personality when dealing with the public, journalists and everybody around him is…
Christmas Gift Guide 2017 To keep with tradition, every year around this time, I am publishing my gift guide for food lovers. These ideas are coming from me – I haven’t been paid to put these up and no affiliate program is attached to any links in this post – as always with the Bia…
Cork Gourmet Trail The fabulous Sandra Murphy is a force in Cork’s food and event scene and she didn’t disappoint with the Cork Gourmet Trail as part of the Cork Oyster Festival. Five venues with 12 vendors made for a perfect trail – not too short, not too long. We started off in the Metropole…