Even though we associate November with Halloween and the many fun and games associated with this festival of the dead, I felt the humble potato deserved a mention this month. As we have had such fine weather, there are very few potatoes still in the ground and most, if not […]
Mention mince pies to Sharon or Laura O’Driscoll at this time of year and they both sigh heavily. “It’s like opening Pandora’s box,” explains Sharon. “we’re literally walking over boxes and boxes of mince pies for weeks on end.” Baked with Sharon’s homemade mince meat and mouthwatering almond pastry, it’s […]
West Cork’s Kate Ryan has scooped the award for Food Writing at the second annual Irish Food Writing Awards. Over 75 award finalists attended from throughout the island of Ireland, competing for the 20 awards on offer covering Irish food and drink journalism, cookbooks, feature writing, blogging, podcasting, photography and […]
We arrived into Amorgas, the third of the Cycladic islands that we have visited on this trip, late last night. We kind of ended up here by default after the ferries were cancelled due to extreme wind. This turnaround of our plans had the man in the ferry ticket bemused. […]
It has been a busy few weeks for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and unfortunately, it hasn’t been good news for the state of Ireland’s nature. Almost half of our rivers and lakes are now polluted and almost a fifth of them in ‘bad’ or ‘poor’ condition, according to the […]
Ferns depict the seasons in such a visually prominent way. The way they uncurl in the spring has such an air of drama about it, and when they have stopped uncurling and have reached full height, we know summer is really here, and then from late summer we get the […]