Over the last couple of months I’ve sampled a lot of energy/breakfast bars. Not for good blogging research purposes I’m sad to say. Its because I keep forgetting to eat or am just not ready to eat before I rush off for a meeting or class. I end up grabbing a coffee and bar in […]
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Hot Cross Bun Muffins In our family Easter is the holiday with the most family traditions. I figure that’s probably because we aren’t rushing around sorting presents and feast food like at Christmas and we don’t have to sort costumes and parties like at Halloween. I was over at my friend Imen’s (I married […] Back when I was a teenager, I had to spend 2 days running a tradestand for Dad at an Udaras na Gailteacht trade fair in Connemara. Eyeball numbingly boring- handing out bumph on the company to disinterested passersby. The redeeming feature of the whole experience was the lady next to us cooking boxty samples. […] Last week I gave a quick ,yeast ,breadmaking demonstration to my ICA guild . Since we had the recipe all typed up nice for that I figure its time to finally do thepromised post for easy breadmaking. We seldom buy bread anymore as it takes such little time to whip up a batch of dough. […] Choosing breakfast cereal for our family is a real pain. One person won’t eat weetabix and one will only eat it. Two eat porridge but only some days. Cornflakes or rice crispies soon lose their appeal and I have to make rice crispie buns to use up the end of the box. Many mueslis and […] One morning last week , horror of horrors !, I had no bread for breakfast . By the time I realised that I had no time to prove and bake yeast bread . A table of faces looked at me expectantly so I whipped up a soda bread dough. My friend Freddy had just given […] |
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