From Bibliocook: All About Food:
My cookery demonstration career continues this week on Wednesday 2 December in the Knockcarron, Co Limerick (map here). Knockcarron/Knocklong ICA have invited me along and I’ll be giving a demonstration called Spice Up Your Life in the Community Centre at 8pm. I’ll be making my favourite Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
This is the second article that I wrote for last Thursday’s Irish Times Christmas Gift Supplement. Read the first here.
Delicious goodies are always a joy to receive, especially when you know that they’ve been made specially for you. With a little ingenuity and time you can put together all manner of [...]
From Jennifer O’Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell
Before I sit in judgement on anyone else, let me make a confession.
I struggle with a wholly pathetic compulsion to bare my soul to strangers. I grapple with it in taxis, at dinner, in the queue for the Ladies, sometimes on the radio, and quite often on these very pages.
So – [...]
From Daly Planet: A new tablet is being hailed as the female answer to Viagra — the latest step in an age-old hunt for the female libido. Susan Daly reportshttp://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/love-sex/could-this-new-pill-really-turn-every-woman-on-1956054.htmlMale desire, the joke goes, is a simple on-off switch while female desire is a whole control desk of dials, knobs and buttons.The complex
This post first [...]
From Daly Planet: A new tablet is being hailed as the female answer to Viagra — the latest step in an age-old hunt for the female libido. Susan Daly reportshttp://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/love-sex/could-this-new-pill-really-turn-every-woman-on-1956054.htmlMale desire, the joke goes, is a simple on-off switch while female desire is a whole control desk of dials, knobs and buttons.The complex
This post first [...]
From Adrian Russell:
I watched the first episode of new RTÉ comedy Val Falvey TD starring Ardal O’Hanlon tonight. And promising enough it was too.
The former Father Ted star presented a really good series of programmes, some years ago, on football rivalries called Leagues Apart. They seem to be on YouTube for anyone interested.
The clip [...]
From Adrian Russell:
Frank Sinatra – As Time Goes By
One of the greats announced this week that he’s calling it a day. Allen Iverson is set to hang up his tats and leave the NBA a duller place.
An unbelievable player for the 69ers, ‘AI’ – who was quick to defend the ‘hip-hop’ culture of the [...]
From Adrian Russell:
Here, friends, are some moustaches that have inspired me during the lonely, unhygenic month of Movember.
No 1. Martin Storey
The Oulart-the-Ballagh man captained Wexford to a famous All-Ireland title win in 1996 despite this soup-strainer. The moustache went on to a have a key role in the forming of the GPA some years later.
If [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
The article that I wrote for today’s Irish Times Gift Christmas Supplement is not online so I thought that I would reproduce the entire piece – before it was edited for space and clarity – here, complete with links.
Buying for someone who loves food might seem like the easiest thing in [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
Cook ahead, shop ahead, think ahead – those are the main points of Carmel Somers’ first cookbook. Somers is the chef/owner of the Good Things Café, an acclaimed restaurant and popular cookery school in Durrus, West Cork. Eat Good Things Every Day, however, is not in the least bit cheffy. [...]
