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  • We're getting ready! The first issue of my food magazine FEAST: A Dinner Journal is on its way...
  • In the woods...
  • In for a bumper crop of Strawberries this year! :)
  • Our little Swedish summer house now has rhubarb outside! :)
  • First chive flowers and Max...
  • Smoked mackerel udon @koyaudon...
  • London lunch with @eatlikeagirl! Getting our udon on @koyaudon! :)
  • Just an average Monday morning with @paulwalshR7 on a trampoline!
  • Bonjour Monsiuer! Beautiful new book from Chocolate Genius Eric Lanlard @eric_lanlard!
  • Oh dear... This is how I know I'm Irish and I've just seen the first sunshine of the year... #farmerstan
  • What a beautiful day filming for #kitchenhero today on Dublin's docklands! Could not have asked for better weather! :)
  • Gotta love that old bolands mill sign in Dublin's Docklands.
  • Hello Dublin! We've got the weather- looking good! :) #kitchenhero
  • The excitement of #eurovision can be too much for some... #poormax
  • Just finished final meeting about FEAST! Slightly later than previously billed- it will be in your lives next week! :)
  • Spring doing beautiful things in Howth- rhododendron's in full bloom...
  • So you remember all that wild garlic? Well it's flowering! :) #spring
  • Cooking up a storm in the garden today! :)
  • Managed to get this lot home with us! Serious food photography prop haul from Sweden! :)
  • Woo hello Eurovision! :)
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Pizza? On The BBQ? Are You Avin’ A Giraffe?!

I have been dying to cook pizza on the BBQ for ages and I finally plucked up the courage to make it happen a few weeks ago.  After a lot of research on the matter, the choices boiled down to two major options, one to cook it directly on the grill which had it's hazards, and then choice I went with which was to buy a pizza stone.  The decision was made easy when I spotted a cute little stone for about 15 euro on sale in a hardware shop.  The beauty of cooking on the stone is that you get left with a fantastic crispy and chewy base.  You pop the stone on BBQ for about 45 minutes ahead of cooking and then when it's nice and hot, you slap on the pizza base and assemble the pizza toppings.  In about 6-8 minutes you are left with one of the most delicious pizzas you will ever make at home.

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Monday, July 4, 2011

Swedish Summer and Boozy Bum Chicken…

It's been a little quiet on the blogging front for the last few days, but I have good reason! After a couple of crazy months, I can well and truly say I have switched my mind to the standby position.  We're spending some time in Gothenburg soaking up some Swedish sunshine and inspiration before work starts on the new book when I'm back.  It's given me a bit of time to work through the notebooks full of recipe ideas I've been writing over the last year and over the weekend I managed to whittle it down to a really solid list of tasty recipes.  The whole book writing process has always been a learning process and I think now I have a really good idea about how I want to write the next one.  In lots of ways there is a detachment between writing the recipes, testing the recipes, and shooting the photography for the recipes and so for this next book I want to combine all three and really give a sense of real life cooking as I work through the production process.  I'm planning on cooking and shooting everything chez moi, so the next few months I'm sure our kitchen is going to look like a bomb hit it! :)

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