I’m a big fan of toasted cheese sandwiches, so much so that some of my friends just expect to be fed them when they come to visit. What’s not to love? They’re oozing with cheese, they’re warm & comforting, they’re just the perfect go to …
Sometimes, very rarely, there are things that I feel are worth sacrificing sleep for. Actually, I only really feel that way about travel. Well not anymore. This morning when my alarm went off at 6am I was beginning to question my sanity. Is it really …
I know what you’re thinking. Zucchini (or courgette) in bread!? Why would someone ruin a perfectly good bread by adding green vegetables into it? Until only a few hours ago, I used to think the same. This whole baking excursion came about when I found …
I’ve always had a kind of love-hate relationship with passion fruit. The slimy insides with crunchy pips were too much for my younger self to handle. Now that I’m a mature grown-up things have changed. I love passion fruit. I love the colour of the …
Can we all just take a moment to admire that title? Possibly have a moment of silence while we imagine the pure perfection of the chocolatey Nutella stuffing bursting out of the cookie & coating your entire mouth. Well, you guys have to imagine, but …
Apparently we buy too much bananas in my house. There always seems to be bananas that get too icky & black to be eaten. The result? New experiments with banana bread! I enjoy it (obviously), but I think my family wish I’d just start making …
I like spicy things, Bosco likes spicy things, my family tolerate it when I make spicy things. Their mild taste buds are never enough to stop me trying out some different spicy recipes. Beef Chili isn’t an unusual dish around our house (I make it kind …
The weather in Ireland recently has been strange. Extremely out of the ordinary. It’s been… warm! Sure, it was still rainy & windy, but it was warm. I hope you understand what a big deal that is. It’s never warm here. When I think of …
Simply put, I love cinnamon. I’ll try cinnamon in practically anything – porridge, banana bread, bolognese, rice, you name it. So the other day when I was browsing around Damn Delicious & found the recipe for these Raspberry Spiced Muffins, I just couldn’t let it go. I had to …
Do you ever have those nights when you’re in bed & all you want to do is sleep, but your mind won’t stop thinking? That happened to me the other night. For some reason I just could not stop thinking about quesadillas. This was strange …
I’ve been going through a porridge phase lately. I was never much of a fan, it was always too bland for my liking & I couldn’t be bothered to wait for it to cook. But now I’m like a woman possessed. I’m on a mission …
There was an abundance of cream in our fridge the other day. I’m talking ten 250ml pots. All of which had to be used up within two days. We set about making desserts to freeze. My mum made a Lemon Cheesecake, a Praline Coffee Swirl …
Yesterday, 45 minutes before we were meant to eat, Mum asked me if I’d make the dinner. She said she didn’t mind what I made, so long as I used the minced beef in the fridge & had everything ready for 7pm. The 7pm that …
Today was an excellent day. Nothing about today put me in a bad mood, not college, not work, not anything. Now, I don’t know if it’s just me, but those kind of days don’t happen all that often round here, there’s usually always SOMETHING. Okay, …
I was recently charged with the almighty task of making my dad’s birthday dinner. Now, that by itself wouldn’t have been too bad. However, things are never as simple as you want them to be. My mom, who has been going on about how my …
I’m a self confessed banana bread lover. I have been for as long as I can remember. So in the middle of last week when I noticed we had some nicely browning up bananas, I strategically placed them out of sight so no one would eat them. …
I was never really one for salads. Why would I put myself through all the preparation chopping of the vegetables, only to be left with a big pile of leaves at the end? Right? It was only about a year ago that I grew up …
Orange & almond biscotti – the name doesn’t sound very traumatising, right? So when I was asked to bake something yesterday for a Month’s Mind, these Italian biscuits popped straight into my mind. They seemed perfect for the occasion: subtle & simple, sophisticated (not like …