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Its taken me a few weeks to write this review and every time Ive thought of it Ive been reminded that almost every other review I have ever read of the Winding Stair has been excellent.
On that specific day in an effort to show one of my Ballymaloe friends the very best of Dublin foodie haunts we had already been to the Cake Cafe and to Murphys for some sea salt and burnt caramel ice-cream along with a very long trip through the aisles of Fallon & Byrne.  Continue reading »

Lots of Italian special buys this week at Aldi, including:

Panini press – €25.99
Italian biscuits – €1.99 each
Italian spice mills – 99c each
Premium pesto – €1.39 each

Nothing for picnic goers, but I’m jealous of you all so HA HA. No tents for you: that’ll ruin your weekend, right? Click here for details.
The current Super6 offer – valid until September 11 – includes pears, kiwis, apples, and carrots for 69c. Click here for details.  Continue reading »

Food offers
Current food offers at Lidl include:

Red/ white cabbage – reduced from €1.29 to 79c
Pinot Grigio delle Venezie Blush (750ml) – reduced from €5.49 to €3.99
Something called “chicken olives, with pork, sage and onion stuffing” (answers on a postcard please) – €2.79

Remember, new set of food offers every Monday at Lidl. Click here for details.
Super Saturday offers, meanwhile, include diced steak and half price fruit drinks.  Continue reading »

A new burger joint where the customers really do set the menu, what a fantastic idea and if your idea sells well you could be eating for free. It’s a far cry from this place…

An interesting article talking about food miles. I still think that it’s better to buy as much locally grown produce before resorting to food that has travelled half the world. Freshness trumps all in my opinion.  Continue reading »

Catherine Fulvio is one busy lady these days. In addition to running Ballyknocken House and Cookery School in County Wicklow, she’s been filming her new series, Catherine’s Roman Holiday,* which premieres tomorrow in Ireland at 8:30 p.m. on RTÉ, doing cooking demos at summer festivals like Bloom and Taste of Dublin, and writing a fantastic new cookbook, Catherine’s Italian Kitchen, which was released last week.  Continue reading »

I was back in Austin recently visiting d’in-laws where I always love to get my Texas grub fix. I’ve eaten some interesting things like antelope carpaccio and buffalo but my latest culinary adventure…braised tongue in a bun. We went for a beer after dinner across from the restaurant where I spotted what was not so much a food truck but a food trailer.  Continue reading »

Happy September, everybody!  I’ve always found September to be a pretty dull month overall.  Besides Labor Day, there’s nothing exciting going on.  But there is one relatively  new holiday that I will be celebrating this month: my boyfriend’s and my 1 1/2 yr anniversary! (Yes, it’s still new enough that we celebrate the halves!)  I have decided that I want to cook a meal to celebrate- help me pick my menu after the jump!  Continue reading »

I first spotted this wine at a tasting during the summer. Boutique importers, Grape Circus, Simon Tyrell and Nomad Wines got together for a tasting in June and there were some brilliant tastings on show. Enrico from Grape Circus focused on Italians, Tyrell on the Rhone & South of France. Nomad focused on Burgundy and my pick of the bunch wasn’t a Meursault or Puligny but a humble Aligoté.
Surprise, delight, wonder.  Continue reading »

The days of summer are coming to a close, but I am still clinging on…here’s to a few more ice cream dreams.
I first sampled brown bread ice cream at Murphy’s Ice Cream Cafe in Dingle, Co. Kerry. It was 2005 and I was pregnant. As far as I was concerned, it was the next best thing to apple pie.  Continue reading »

http://www.curragh.ie/downloads/Thorough_Brew_Poster.pdf.  Continue reading »

M&S is to start selling branded products* in its Irish stores. Up to 450 brands, including Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, Barry’s, and Tayto will be phased into all 20 M&S stores by the middle of September.
It’s a big leap for the retailer, which has always prided itself on selling only its own produce, but it’s worked successfully in several UK stores since last year.  Continue reading »

I’m a big fan of “supper clubs” – I call them that for lack of a better word – and we’ve written about the idea several times here on CheapEats. Simply gather some friends together, get one person to make a starter, another the main, and someone else the dessert. A great alternative to eating out.
Now, I’m planning another supper club on Thursday September 30, to mark Amnesty’s Taste for Freedom day.  Continue reading »

Up until I was 15, I was a vegetarian. I’m 21 now, and even though it’s only been 6 years of eating meat, I don’t feel the slightest bit guilty about turning over to the dark side. Since September is National Chicken Month, I wanted to share some tips and recipes that I think all cooks (beginners and experts) will find helpful about delicious chicken.  Continue reading »

‘O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d with the blood of the grape…’ (William Blake)

It’s to one of our favourite countries we turn this month to give you an autumn laden with Australia’s finest fruit. From south of Perth to north of Sydney, and barring only a few rare delicacies*, we’ve 20% off every bottle from the land Down Under in September and October!  Continue reading »

I’m really loving Anissa Helou’s fantastic mezze recipes, as well as the stories on her wonderful blog. She currently has a lovely tale to tell about chocolates made from camel milk. Here’s two more mezze recipes from her excellent book Modern Mezze; check out more of her books here.
Mezze are so versatile: they make great snacks, dinners, and lunches, whether just for yourself or a larger party.  Continue reading »

M&S’s Dine in for Two for €12.50 offer must be one of the most attractive and successful supermarket special offers of recent years.  Continue reading »

We’re very pleased to welcome Cork restaurant and food blogger Billy Lyons to the Curious Wines blog. Billy tells us how he discovered his own sweet tooth for wine.
Funny how things happen.
This year, while on hols in the Dordogne, I won a prize for being a diligent tourist. Had I been really wide awake and diligent I would have won two of them but didn’t catch on to the scheme until my holiday was half over.  Continue reading »

Another recipe from Catherine’s cookbook today and it’s a damn good one, you seriously can’t go wrong with homemade spaghetti and meatballs, especially on a day like today!  Can you believe it’s already the 1st of September?  This dish would make a perfect little warming supper dish so enjoy!  Continue reading »

Recent visits to Denmark have somewhat skewed my perceptions of the beer scene there. From the big festivals hosted on the Carlsberg grounds I’ve come away with the impression that the Danish beer market consists of 21st-century microbreweries (from literal backyard operations up to fairly large American-inspired craft brewing) and then nothing until you come to megalithic multinational Carlsberg.  Continue reading »

Damn.  I was really hoping I wouldn’t have to write a negative restaurant review, especially only 2 days into our holiday in Saint Jean de Monts.  I did my research but still ended up in a restaurant that needs a Manuel Injection to make it hit the pinnacle of good food and service…
We had a very lazy day, marked only by the consumption of a gorgoeus Fougasse aux Lardons with a giant salad for lunch and a quick trip to the screaming-child crowded non-reclining sunlounger pool area (god we are such snobs!).  I had planned to cook dinner, but a banjaxed BBQ put a halt to my plans so The Hubs told me he was bringing me out to dinner.  Our pesky Garmin Nuvi 250 SatNav was still acting up & not recognising anywhere within 1000km, so we just kept turning right at the roundabouts and ended up on the Avenue de la Mer.  I had checked out some relatively decent restaurants thanks to the StJDeM website and we recognised Le Colonial from the printout, and grabbbed a parking spot on the very crowded seafront at 7pm.  Continue reading »