Braised, Simmered & Stewed: A New Cookbook in the Works
Braised, Simmered & Stewed: Heritage Dishes from the Slow Cooker is the tentative title of a new cookbook I’m working on for Chronicle Books, San Francisco due for release in …
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Memory Lane: My 1st Review for the Houston Press
I went to work for the Houston Press in June of 2000. The paper was in its heyday, thick with editorial pages and fat with classified advertising. Tim Carman was …
My Top 10 Irish Dishes: 2023
My Top 10 Irish Dishes: 2023 Maybe we are still recovering, but 2023 was a curiously quiet year, Gone is the over-the-top culinary exuberance of the pre-COVID era. The tasting …
Happy Halloween!
We’re off to the Untied States for at autumn tour. First on the list is a visit to the Washington DC area to meet my first grandchild! I’ll be making …
Happy Michaelmas 2023! Have an Apple!
You have to grow tomatoes and peppers in a “polytunnel” here in Ireland. It’s too cold and windy outside. July was so cold, my homegrown tomatoes were still pretty green …
Happy New Year: 2023
2023 found us in in Texas with old friends. It was a great way to start the year! Our whirlwind of a holiday month started on December 11th with my …
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 …
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 …
Another Year, Another Lockdown.
My old friend Jay Rascoe, known to many as the man behind Guns & Tacos sent me this lovely care package from Houston. The teenagers were overjoyed to see the familiar …
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 …