I have been almost too afraid to bake anything in my kitchen recently for fear of just the sight of oozing melting chocolate or the lingering smell of a sponge cake baking might cause me to ingest unwanted calories!! I … Continue reading →

How wonderful to wake up to blue skies and balmy temperatures this morning! I couldn’t miss the opportunity to check on the sloe berries which I photographed a few weeks back and I was keen to share the experience with … Continue reading →

The baby of the house turned three on Wednesday and today we celebrated!! We had a piggy themed cake in homage to her favourite sminky shorts video clip…….. (we replace the b word with “rascal” and the s word with … Continue reading →

I must admit that before yesterday I had no clue what dry aged beef was, I knew it was hung before being cooked but apart from that I was clueless! At times during the day I had to remind myself … Continue reading →

The very first Harvest Offaly Food Festival took place last weekend and what a fantastic couple of days it was. We are blessed to have so many incredibly talented food producers here in the faithful county and it was a … Continue reading →