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  • 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! :)
  • Beautiful Copenhagen! #Denmark
  • Beautiful dessert at Sjömagasinet- Dark chocolate mousse with 3 types of rhubarb... #sweden
  • Used to hate it but pretty much love it now- pickled herring at Sjömagasinet... #sweden
  • Gravadlax at Sjömagasinet in Gothenburg harbour... #sweden
  • Walk in the forest... #sweden
  • Swedish summer house... #sweden
  • The results of our food photography prop hunting in Gothenburg yday! :) #loppis #sweden
  • Artilleret. GBurg.
  • Coffee and a cardamom bun at Da Matteo in Gothenberg... Followed by a stroll in the botanic garden. #sweden
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

I Like Big Buns and I Cannot Lie!

No otha' bruthas' can deny... and so on... What is about sweet things like big dirty chocolate cakes, drippy sticky toffee pudding, and oozing eclairs that always seem to grab people's attention?  I could write fresh and healthy recipes everyday for the rest of my life, and they would still never get the same reaction as the oooohing and aaaahing that a great big, filthy slice of gooey, dark chocolate brownie manages to draw. Some of the first recipes I ever cooke, were baking ones, and to this day it's one of my favourite forms of cooking in the kitchen.  I have cooked Swedish cinnamon buns to their death at this stage, but they have to be one of the best baking discoveries I've come across in the last 5 years.

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Friday, August 12, 2011

If You Go Down To The Woods Today…

During our forest strolls in Sweden, (yes we take forest strolls now!) we often encountered groups of people carrying baskets full of beautiful Chanterelle mushrooms. A glance of acknowledgement followed by a secretive scurry back in to the woods would be as far as communication would go. Swedes take mushroom hunting extremely seriously and around this time of year, with each new summer rain mushrooms plump up and fill the forest. A good picking spot, once found is hardly ever shared, because the mushrooms will continue to to spring up in the same area.

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Pushing Grannies and BBQ Sweet Potato and Halloumi Salad

There are few things that get me more excited than finding cool vintage props for food photography and Sweden really is a great place to pick up interesting items.  They just seem to have a better way of looking after there old junk! Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the Irish ideology is that if it's broken or old, a skip is ordered and it all gets fecked in, with the thought that out of sight is out of mind and that's a few more less things to worry about.  The one thing the Swedes have down to a tee, is a fantastic ethos of recycling and which includes rubbish, old pieces of furniture, clothes, and most importantly for me kitchenalia.

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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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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Swedish Gooey Chocolate Cake

The Method


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Monday, November 9, 2009

Crispy Hasselback Potatoes

I came across the recipe for Hasselback potatoes when I was younger and they are so visually appealing that I had to make them. The traditional recipe, originally from Stockholm, calls for breadcrumbs and cheese, but I have tried to make it as simple as possible for this recipe. The potatoes go nicely alongside most dishes. If your potato slices don’t separate while cooking, increase your heat and you should get better results.

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