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KHODP: Dessert Recipe and Shopping List!

I thought I would get this up nice and early so people can do the shopping with plenty of time to spare!  The final recipe has to be one of my absolute favourites from the book, it's my blueberry and white chocolate cheesecake, which is let me warn you, extremely heavy but absolutely declicious.  It was served last night at The Cookbook Club in Ely CHQ and went down a storm so it definitely is a keeper.  When I was first testing the recipe, I made so many of these and ate every one of them!

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Main Course for KHODP: Thai Beef and Mango Salad!

If you missed it yesterday, check the full menu for the Kitchen Hero Online Dinner Party over here.  Today I'm posting the main course recipe which is for Thai Beef and Mango Salad.  It's one of my favourite recipes from the book, it sounds complicated with the amount of ingredients but really it's just a case of assembling the salad ingredients, making a dressing and frying the steaks.

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Kitchen Hero Tasty Tea Food Blogger Launch at The Westbury Hotel!

Last week I was joined by a group of my fellow Irish food bloggers to celebrate the launch of "Kitchen Hero" at the Westbury Hotel in Dublin. As a group we are rapidly growing in numbers, so it really was great to catch up with some old faces and one or two new ones!

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Kitchen Hero! Recording A TV Series!

Pinch me! It's real!  I can finally talk about it completely openly now that I have actually done it.  Up until now I didn't want to jinx it by talking about it too much but I can reveal officially here on the blog, that we have just finished recording a 13 part series for RTÉ, which will be shown this spring 2011.  EXCITEMENT!

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