Christmas Foodie Gifts: Plum Apple Butter

Last weekend the Christmas Hamper cooking really kicked off. Catherine and I spent all day Saturday in the kitchen (her lovely, roomy bright kitchen) as we set about making many batches of Chilli Jam, Lemon Curd, and Plum Apple Butter for the Christmas hampers we are putting together for friends and family. Last year was [...]

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Crostata: Daring Bakers’ Challenge November 2010

The 2010 November Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Simona of briciole. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make pasta frolla for a crostata. She used her own experience as a source, as well as information from Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well. There are many recipes for pasta [...]

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Pecan Pie!

It’s almost Thanksgiving! A day that usually just passes me by here in the West of Ireland because we don’t get the day off (though I sometimes see some specials in the Uni canteen for the visiting American students ). A look at the newspapers these days makes you feel that it’s all doom and [...]

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I ♡ IKEA

Don’t you just love IKEA? I made (yet another) trip to IKEA Dublin last weekend. I truly love that place, though it does bring out the wistful part of me that wants a big empty house to decorate (using someone else’s credit card!). Their marketing is really something. I always arrive thinking I only need [...]

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Mini Christmas Puddings

The title of this post really should be “Mini Christmas Puddings: am I crazy?”. I admit that as I greased the 22nd pudding mould, I started to doubt my plan. What was I thinking? How was I ever going to steam them all? Do I really have to cut out 22 pieces of foil and [...]

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Raspberry Breakfast Bars

Another weekend almost gone…it feels like we’re on a landslide towards Christmas. I think all my crazy hours in college trying to push through my thesis are making the weeks just blur into each other. It feels like just yesterday all the undergrads came back on campus and started clogging up the coffee queues, and [...]

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