I promised a recipe to use the cranberry jam in last week. Events have conspired against me. Firstly, I couldn’t find my copy of the book that contained the recipe for the tart. I sent an emergency tweet and the lovely Rosanne from Like Mam Used to Bake and Bionic…
Things are busy, crazy busy this Christmas, and I’m not sure why. (OK it might be the fact that I have a six month old baby and two small boys). Despite having started my shopping in early November I’m not yet finished. The only presents that have been wrapped are…
I’ve written about the chaos that can ensue when I bring my children to the supermarket, the running up and down the aisles and the general mayhem. One of the things that they beg for are the bags of cookies in the bakery aisle as you go in, the smell…
Butternut squash reminds me of introducing my kids to solids, both boys loved it and it destroyed many’s the bib. For some reason I rarely cook it these days, but all that will change soon as Miss L is about to enter the world of “real food” consumption. The motivation…
I’m getting tired now of posting our dinners, especially when they are like this week’s (nothing to boast about) so this might be the end of this short series. You’ll notice that dinners here at the start of the week are very homemade and healthy and that as the week…
I got lots of interaction from last week’s post on dinners so I decided to note what we ate this week to share our everyday dinner ideas. Again, nothing pretty, nothing planned way in advance and nothing fancy. Just real life what turned up on my plate dinners. Monday Chickpea…
I like my dinner. In fact, I think about what’s for dinner from the time I get up. We have ours around 6pm, usually the boys and I, with Miss L supervising from her bouncer, and P reheating his when he gets home. I tend to do my grocery shopping…
Ciarán is one of the last of his little group of friends to turn 5, and this has led to emotional scenes on the way to many birthday parties this summer as he declares that he doesn’t want the birthday child to be 5 before him. Come to think of…
It’s apt that I’m posting a “15 minute meal” just after we’ve had our 15 minutes of fame, appearing an article in the Irish Times Health Supplement about cooking with kids. If you’ve managed to avoid my publicity of the article til now, you might like to check it out…
We all know that fish is good for us and that we should include it more in our diets, yet people seem to be wary of cooking it and hate the lingering smell that preparing it in the house leaves. Atlantis Seafood which trades as “Kilmore Quay” in your…
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