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Biking it to the farm on the hill

Biking it to the farm on the hill

Today I took a most enjoyable trip to McNally's organic vegetable farm [https://www.mcnallyfamilyfarm.ie/] in Balrickard, Co. Dublin. This is close to a place called Bog of the Ring, a beautiful area that stretches from the M1 motorway on its eastern boundary through the town land

Veggie "mince" curry

Veggie "mince" curry

This is a veggie take on a curry my mum used to make when we were young. It was a pure comfort dish on a cold winter evening, especially with lots of brown rice and some mango chutney. But it was made with minced beef and I wanted to find

Growing your own lettuce

Growing your own lettuce

Lettuce is one of the easiest thing to grow and anyone can have a go at it. All you need is a planting box, seeds and some potting compost. Within a few short weeks you will have enough baby leaves to pick for a salad and you'll suddenly

My Town

I took this photo earlier in the week. It was Monday morning, a weekday. My daughter and I decided to start our day off well, with intention, with a walk to the beach. A beautiful morning with the sun already shining warm. We filled a thermos with hot chocolate after

A simple tomato sauce

A simple tomato sauce

This is a really useful tomato sauce and can be enjoyed simply with pasta and some shavings of Parmasean cheese on top. It can also be used as a base for a ragu or a chilli or to spread on pizzas. We often make a large batch of this and

My favourites - Classical music

My favourites - Classical music

I started playing the cello when I was 7 years old simply because of this piece by Saint-Saens : The Swan (Le Cygne) from The Carnival of the Animals. I was studying music theory and at the end of the school year our teacher invited some musicians into the class to

Car(e)less for a year

Car(e)less for a year

In January 2020 we noticed a problem with the brakes in our car, a 2006 Ford Focus Ghia. It seemed that as we would come up on a roundabout and touch the brakes they would work 9 times out of 10. But there was that 1 time out of 10

My favourites - Rory Gallagher

My favourites - Rory Gallagher

When Jimi Hendrix was asked how it felt to be the world's greatest guitarist, he is reported to have said: ‘I don't know, go ask Rory Gallagher’. Rory Gallagher was born in Donegal, in the north of Ireland and his family later moved south to Cork.

Chocolate chip scones

Chocolate chip scones

A few months into Covid-19 lockdown I signed up to a subscription to get The Irish Times weekend edition delivered to our letterbox on a Saturday morning. It became a real luxury, something to look forward to after the week of work at home. Getting some pastries - choc au

A great brown bread

A great brown bread

My mum baked brown bread a lot when we were growing up. Smeared with butter and jam at teatime or with chesse or leftover sunday ham for school lunches. We rarely had white sliced bread in our house. I never appreciated it enough as a child, envying neat crustless white