Posts Tagged “Food”
It’s a sign of the times. We eat fresh strawberries in the middle of winter. They may have travelled thousands of miles and be overpriced but there’s a ready market here for fresh fruit all year round. They are lovely in porridge first thing in the morning or even with Corn Flakes. They make the [...]
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- Tags: Christmas, Food, Fruit, General, irishblogs, Palestine, Strawberry
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A garage down the road sells chocolate covered flapjacks. I’ve bought a few in the recent past and savoured every bite but the last time I was down there they only had plain ones! What would I do? My life ground to a halt and in desperation I contemplated droving all over the country looking [...]
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- Tags: cake, chocolate, flapjack, Food, irishblogs, recipe, rice-crispy-cakes
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It’s that time of the year again and one of the highlights is the traditional Halloween brack. If you’ve never had it, it’s a delicious fruit cake, usually with small objects hidden inside. From the Wikipedia page on Barm Brack: In the barmbrack were: a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth and a ring. [...]
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- Tags: barm-brack, barn-brack, brack, cake, Food, halloween, halloween-brack, Ireland, When-in-Ireland
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Let’s ask Google: Rice Crispy Cake – 75 results Rice Crispy Bun – 17 results That’s what the Internet says and I agree. ‘nuf said! For completeness, it should be noted that It’s Kelloggs Rice Krispies but that name is trademarked as Andy just reminded me so people are more likely to spell it with [...]
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- Tags: buns, cakes, chocolate, Food, Humour, rice-crispy-cakes, When-in-Ireland
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We’re off to the Midleton Food & Drink Festival later. Sounds like good fun and I’ll have plenty of snaps with my new lens! (more) There’s another vintage rally happening down near Macroom tomorrow which is where we’ll head. Looks like lots more to do this week and until the end of the year too! [...]
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Look, they were on special offer in Dunnes on Sunday so I couldn’t resist. I had to buy them! They were crying out to me! I think almost everyone must remember Wagon Wheels from their youth, and they even made Biscuit of the Week here! Unfortunately, all is not sweet in the production of said [...]
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