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Category: Ireland

burgers / golf / Ireland / Scotland / whiskey

2022: Some Summer!

The high point of the summer of 2022 was a trip to Scotland to watch the practice rounds of the British Open at St Andrews. We travelled by car ferry …

Brits / Ireland / Irish food / Uncategorized

Fourth of July: Burning Down the House

It took a while for me to understand the irony of booking a room in the Rostrevor Inn in County Down, Northern Ireland for the 4th of July.  It’s a …

chili / chili con carne / Ireland / tex-mex

Ireland in Lockdown…Again

Ireland is on lockdown again, this time for 6 weeks until early December. The schools are open, but there was no “trick or treating” this year. Sacrificing Halloween to save …

Ireland / Irish food / Irish seafood / oysters / Uncategorized

Life As We Know It: Covid Pandemic

Tourism is the dominant industry in the Burren region of Western Ireland. Now the Burren has gone eerily quiet. No bright green “Paddy Wagon” tour busses whizzing along the narrow …

barbecue / Ireland / Irish food / irish golf / Uncategorized

The Summer’s Gone, it’s Fall in Ireland

The days are getting shorter and the temperature rarely breaks 60°F these days. But it was quite a summer. Our 4th of July BBQ was a blow-out. Kelly’s Houston book …

barbecue / cooking / drinks / eire-mex / Ireland / Irish food / Irish seafood / meat / Mexican food / oysters / tex-mex

Eire-Mex: Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican army’s victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It is a minor holiday in Mexico, dwarfed in importance by Mexican …

gardens / Ireland / oysters

In a Bar with Irish Spring at Hand

Irish Winter is the best season for sitting in pubs and complaining about the weather (while eating oysters and drinking Guinness). I can hold my own at this sport. At …

books / chili / cooking / galveston / Ireland / Irish food / Irish seafood / meat / oysters / recipes

Chili, Oysters and Our Irish Cottage on Pouldoody Bay

As the fall semester begins, our Irish adventure continues. I am writing about cooking in Ireland for Taste.com and getting together with Ten Speed Press for a Chili Cookbook promotion. …

barbecue / cooking / Ireland / Irish food

St. John’s Eve: An Old Irish BBQ Tradition

Looks like I got signed up to cook the barbecue at this event at Kelly’s school. I’ll be grilling Irish pork and apple sausages and serving them on buns with …

cooking / good eats / Ireland / Irish seafood / meat / oysters / Uncategorized

Starting Over: An East Texan in Western Ireland

Storm Fion, the third named storm of the season is hitting the West Coast of Ireland at the moment. (And we thought we were getting away from Galveston’s tropical storms!) …

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