Looks pretty, doesn’t it? If I do say so myself. But this dish is the culinary equivalent of Spanx. Takes something boring, lumpy and not quite up to scratch and transforms it into a red carpet beauty.
Yes, I’m comparing a dish to knickers. It must be the sun here...
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Imagine you’re seated at a round table topped with the most exotic fruit baskets you’ve ever seen, in the most sumptuous and spacious dining room you’ve ever stepped foot in. You sip cool champagne and engage in entertaining small talk with your well-heeled guests. Many of the women, already...
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'Offee pie is a unique Gastronomics.ie recipe. However, it's not inspired by culinary genius, painstakingly formulated and tested in a professional kitchen.
It's what happens when a typical modern Irish woman (read: insanely busy) juggles slightly too many balls in the air while attempting to be that multi-limbed goddess...
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I
don’t can’t bake. Anybody who has even taken a cursory glance at the recipe list on this blog will realise this. So, with six people coming for dinner the other night, I was faced with a quandary. I could either pack my standards off for the weekend and...
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Yes, I know, I'm having a rant,
another one. But seriously, lately I've taken to wondering if I was alone in being taught table manners as a child. Are these simple social rules simply not deemed necessary any more or are we just too darn lazy / busy /distracted...
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It sounds awful. Trust me, it’s not. It’s utterly satisfying and encapsulates all of the magic of rustic France. It ain’t pretty, but by God does it hit the spot. Again, there are lots of variations of this, but this is how we do it in our house. Nyum. ...
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To very precise about this dish, the boyfriend cooked this leg of lamb. I prepared it, marinaded it and served it, but he cooked it. I had been on an increasingly rare (for good reason, is it just me or is the hangover getting more vicious every year?) night...
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My weekly shop yesterday involved a bit of a wild card – Mother in Law coming to dinner. This meant that my usual hasty lazy thrown-together stir fry of a Sunday evening would have to be replaced by a proper meal. Involving effort. No problem, I thought, tearing through...
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This weekend I faced a momentous task; not since the Amazon was navigated, the North Pole traversed and the earth's atmosphere breached has such an epic challenge been faced.
I cooked for my mother-in-law.
Don't get me wrong, I am very very lucky, my mother-in-law is an absolute lady, and would...
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This is a pretty book. Y’know the kind that smile sweetly down from the shelf cooing “buy me”, fluttering their pages seductively, flashing their bold colours like a peacock. However, quite often I’m disappointed to find that much like my geriatric uncle’s very young Slavic girlfriend, there’s not much...
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