I like yoghurt and I like trying out small Irish producers’ products. Killowen Farms’ yoghurts, therefore, fit the bill perfectly. They’re made in Wexford, which is quite close to where I live in Carlow. This morning I picked up two pots of yoghurt for breakfast, as I didn’t have enough fresh fruit and vegetables to [...]
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been cooking quite random dishes of my own concoction. Partially because I like experimenting and partially because I keep ending up without the right combination of ingredients for “normal” recipes. This evening, for example, I had some leftover tomatoes that were “on their last legs” ie. if I [...]
Fresh tuna steak is superb. Unfortunately it’s not the most common of fish stocked in Irish supermarkets. While most of them claim to stock it, more often than not it’s not available when you go looking for it. Over the weekend I picked up a couple of nice slices of tuna steak that had been [...]
Kale is a wonderfully tasty addition to your cooking arsenal. Unfortunately it can be quite awkward to get, so I haven’t been able to use it in my cooking for the last couple of months. Fortunately I’ve been able to get a supply in the last week both from local corner shop and from Tesco. [...]
I love trying out new things and so when I saw Fusion and Street‘s soups for sale at the weekend I picked up a couple. Today I had their chicken soup and it was fantastic. Of course it’s not a “normal” chicken soup, it’s marketed as “A taste of Mumbai – chicken soup – garam [...]
My current George Foreman grill works well, but it’s too small for grilling vegetables and other things comfortably – there simply isn’t enough space to spread vegetables out and get them cooked without burning some .. unless you’re happy with grilling a tiny amount of vegetables – I know I’m not! I would have kept [...]
When a supermarket runs a discount on pineapple you’d be silly not to take advantage of it. So I ended up buying 4 or 5 pineapples last week in Super Valu. At 25c a pop they were too cheap to overlook. Lidl were also running a discount on a few other vegetables, but I digress. [...]
