Local Irish food and drink may take pride of place on our Christmas shopping lists, but do we ever give a thought to the origins of the decorations? It’s something well worth thinking about before we go and lash out … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Love Your Local Christmas Tree – Look for the Logo
Tagged: Christmas, farming, Irish produce, Irish vegetables, Local, Natural, Seasonal, Sustainable, unsung heroes
Retro Christmas Recipe Cards raising funds for Temple Street Hospital
Introducing my new capsule collection of retro Recipe Christmas Cards…! The idea for these cards came about because I always look out for food related Christmas cards and noticed that they’ve become pretty well extinct in recent years. So I … Continue reading
Tagged: baking, Charity, Christmas, Recipes, seasonal foods
Young Stars
Two very interesting competitions – the BIM Young Fishmonger and the Euro-Toques Young Chef of the Year – have recently reached their respective finales, each following different but equally rigorous judging processes that involve contestants ‘in the round’, testing them … Continue reading
Tagged: Awards, Chefs, Fish, Irish produce, standards