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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
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Beef and Guinness Pie

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Roast Chicken with Lemon and Oregano and Ready for Spring!

January really is one of those months that my appetite doesn't know what it wants.  One half of me wants something warm and comforting to hold off the the cold weather and the other half has had it up to here with rich stodgy winter food.  So trying to find the balance between the two is often difficult.  My solution has been to stick with the winter foods for now, but generally teaming them up with a light side salad, bulghur wheat packed with fresh flavours and spiky lemon dressings, which is so far working pretty well as a compromise.  This is all fine for now but I am so ready for some new foodie inspiration and thankfully spring is just around the corner, so things are most definitely looking up!  In fact we are busy getting the garden ready to plant some vegetables for year 3 of my kitchen garden project.  This year will by my year- I'm telling ya!  No spinach going to seed, no dead as a dodo carrots, no this year it's going to be all change... I hope!

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