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February 11, 2012 · 3:18 pm

Garlic and Herb Prawns


 

We all enjoy the simple things in life. Well, I know I do. I learnt a very important lesson last night at the Super Night Shot. Without the banal everything is boring. The plain and simple is what makes life so exciting. At the end of the day, we’re all doing the same thing. We all want to be the hero, even if you want to be your own hero. We all want some action and we all want the big ending…to fall in love. The dramas, the worries…it happens to all of us every day. A life of these plain and simple experiences is what makes life so exciting.

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November 12, 2011 · 6:36 pm

Beaufort Street Festival

Saturday 12th November brought the Beaufort St Festival to the good people of Perth City. Stalls full of scrummy food were dotted all along Beaufort st. Between Bulwer and St. Albans. Hipsters spilled out of the uber cool bars that lined the street.

We tasted some of the fare on offer and didn’t go away hungry. On the menu was Turkish Gozleme, Marcelitas Colombian Empanadas, German Brattwurst, Freshly shucked oysters from Jerry Fraser and Paella from Must Wine Bar.

The street was packed with people enjoying the good vibes and soaking up the glorious sun of another beauty of a day!

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October 25, 2011 · 2:00 pm

Pumpkin Blondies

Pumpkin is in abundance at the markets these days, you can’t miss it. It comes in all shapes and sizes and this colourful squash can be used in all manner of forms and tastes good with a variety of different flavours.

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October 22, 2011 · 8:15 am

Homemade baked beans


On the odd occasion that I am at home with my family at the nest in Ireland’s blustery West, a full Irish always makes it’s way to a plate nearby.

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September 29, 2011 · 1:24 pm

Honeycomb ice-cream

This is the traditional ice-cream recipe that I have used before. It’s a simple base that can be altered to adapt to any flavours that you like.

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September 25, 2011 · 10:14 am

Honeycomb

This was more of an experiment than anything else. I had never really played with bicarbonate of soda, only in bread making and cleaning. I had been reading about it’s wild and magical ways and decided to try out some sticky toffee or honeycomb as it’s more commonly known as.

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September 17, 2011 · 5:30 pm

Cookie Cakes :)

Cookie Cakes are the way forward. Well, I think so, at least. They’re mini cakes of cookieness. Who could want more. Cookieness is a word, now.

This weekend rain was forecast, big mean clouds kept threatening the sky but low and behold, I woke up bright and early to a gorgeous sunny Spring Saturday, it was off to the market for my usual hit of farm fresh produce. I was ogling all of the goodies at the market but I had to hold out for a special treat that I had planned for later. I had been thinking about these yummy treats for a couple of days now and figuring out what would be the best way to go about assembling them. I found some very cute little cake tins in a bakeware shop in town and thought that the cookie cakes would fit perfectly with them.

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September 8, 2011 · 11:00 am

Purple Velvet

I give you a combination of earthy meets sweet, I give you Purple Velvet.

For weeks, I have been talking about making these little gems. I only recently started using fresh beetroot  in my cooking and thought it would go really well in some baked treats. The colour that comes out of a freshly cooked beetroot is extraordinary, splashes of vibrant purple are scattered over the kitchen counter tops when I get my hand stuck into them.

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August 29, 2011 · 11:00 am

Rhubarb Jam

One of the fondest memories of growing up in my house was the amazing food that we were brought up on. Traditional recipes past down through generations of great cooks in my family. One that sticks out the most for me is Rhubarb Jam. I often remember my mum coming home with a big bunch of rhubarb that her aunt had given her as a present. Great Auntie Biddie grew rhubarb out in her back garden in Limerick and whenever we would pop down for a visit, the boot was packed full of it and sent back to Dublin for all kinds of treats to be made, jam, crumble, you name it, if you could put rhubarb in it, mum made it.

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August 27, 2011 · 3:55 pm

Bali

As some of you may know, a few weeks ago I had to venture off to exotic Bali for a few days. It was not one of those well deserved holidays that you look forward to all year but more like I booked it 4 days in advance and had to go in order to get my Aussie visa. No complaints there as you can imagine. It worked out well that Perth is only a 3 hour plane ride away and not too expensive either. So, I packed my bags and with my lonely planet in hand I hopped over to Bali and headed to Bali’s cultural centre, Ubud. I knew little if none at all about Bali, only that it was one place my sister has been dreaming of for a long time. It had to be good by her standards. When I read about Ubud, it sounded just up my alley. Cookery lessons, a Yoga Barn teeming with all kinds of yoga classes to satisfy any yogi and food..food, glorious food. My all time favourite.

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