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New blogs

March 1, 2013 in New blogs

My Food Odyssey will chart June’s upcoming food odyssey around Europe, exploring food and food culture across the continent. June and her husband have purchased a camper van and in early May they will set off on their journey, spending a number of months travelling from country to country, region to region, savouring local delights, poking around food markets, meeting local producers and experiencing local food customs.

Adrian has worked in some of the best restaurants in Ireland and shares his knowledge of cooking and new ideas through his blog, Cook with Aidy.

Michelle, originally from Waterford but living in Portugal, invites you to explore Portugal season by season with her on her blog, where she’ll be sharing her small garden where she grow everything in pots, recipes from her kitchen, which are inspired by seasonal produce, and more about life in Portugal at Portugal Season by Season.

At Kitchen Kamikaze, Laura writes the chronicles of her long-suffering kitchen and her haphazard attempts at making food, dining out, gardening, foraging, saving and travelling the world outside of Louth.

Paula writes about all things food at Yummmmyy.

If you are an Irish or Ireland-based food blogger and would like to be added to the blogroll, please email us at with a link AND one line describing what your blog is about.

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New blogs

February 22, 2013 in New blogs

At Life on Hushabye Farm, Elizabeth blogs about life on a mixed smallholding rearing mainly Alpacas (and children) and about the food she loves to cook.

Anne Marie blogs at Annie’s Appetite, a good mix of baking, opinion pieces, cooking and reviews from a Dublin perspective.

At Chocolettecooks, you’ll find food, travel and history from Colette, an Irish amateur cook with over-ambitious tendencies.

If you are an Irish or Ireland-based food blogger and would like to be added to the blogroll, please email us at with a link AND one line describing what your blog is about.

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Blogger Tour of the Honest 2 Goodness Market, Dublin

February 21, 2013 in IFBA Events

It’s high time the food bloggers got together, so we’ve organised a tour of the fabulous Honest 2 Goodness market in Dublin for Saturday, 6 April at 12.30 p.m.

 

 

We’ll kick off for a bite of lunch and coffee at the market café at 12:30. At 1:30, market manager Brid will lead a group around the market and introduce us to the stallholders. So bring your appetite – and plenty of shopping bags!

Please RSVP to so we have an idea of numbers. When you RSVP, let us know if you’d like to have lunch at the market (at 12:30) or if you’d like to go on the tour only (at 1:30). Hope to see you there!

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Giveaway: Wild Food by Evan Doyle and Biddy White Lennon

February 18, 2013 in Giveaways

Wild Food is a fantastic new guide to foraging which reveals the secrets of how to identify, pick, preserve and cook the most common wild foods that grow in our hedgerows and woodlands and on our hillsides and seashores. Packed with helpful tips and advice on gathering, preparing and cooking foraged foods, this combined field guide and cookbook was inspired by the growing interest in wild food and foraging in Ireland today and is the perfect introduction to harvesting nature’s bounty. It includes:

  • Where to look, what it looks like, how to pick.
  • A guide to foraging through the seasons: nettle, dillisk, carrageen, garlic, sea beet, samphire, St George’s mushrooms, sorrel, hawthorn, elderflower, sea lettuce, strawberries, chanterelles, bilberries, field mushrooms, blackberries, damsons, ceps, elderberries, hazelnuts, rose hips, sloes and more.
  • How to prepare and preserve your foraged finds.
  • Over 60 delicious recipe ideas, including tempting treats from The Strawberry Tree at The BrookLodge Hotel.
  • Traditional uses for common wild foods.
  • Great gift ideas for family and friends and lots more.

Thanks to the O’Brien Press, we have 5 copies of Wild Food to give away! To enter, just leave a comment on this post (one comment only, please – multiple entries will be disqualified). The winners will be randomly chosen and notified by email. The competition will close at 6 pm on Monday, 25 February 2013. Good luck, and happy foraging! The giveaway is now closed. Congrats to the winners: Karen, Andy, Dee, Niamh and Katie!

 

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Today Show Launches New Culinary Competition: Ireland’s Best Home Cook

February 13, 2013 in Competitions

The Today team has launched a new competition called “Ireland’s Best Home Cook” and is searching for a new TV cook to join their team for a month. So if your family think you’re a super chef and you’ve always fancied the idea of sharing your recipes with the nation on television, then grab an apron, grab a video camera and show Dáithí Ó Sé and Maura Derrane what you’ve got!

The Today team would like you to send them a 3- to 4-minute video demo of you cooking up a storm in your own kitchen. They want people who have a flair for TV as well as a passion for food. Give them a flavour of why you think you have what it takes to be a television chef.

The winner’s prize includes a lesson from celebrity chef Kevin Dundon in Dunbrody Country House Hotel in Wexford, where Kevin will share tips and expert knowledge on how to be a successful television chef. The winner will get their own cookery slot once a week on Today during the month of March.

The closing deadline is 6pm on Thursday, 21 February 2013. Entrants can email their video to or post tapes to Today, RTÉ Studios, Father Matthew Street, Cork.

Ireland’s Best Home Cook entry rules:

  • Entrants cannot have been employed as a professional chef
  • Video clips must not be longer than 5 minutes in total
  • Entrants must be resident in Ireland or Northern Ireland and be over 18 years of age
  • Entrants must be available to travel to the RTÉ studios in Cork once a week during the month of March
  • RTE Competition Voting Terms & Conditions apply
  • Entrants can email their video to or post tapes to Today, RTÉ Studios, Father Matthew Street, Cork

 

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New blogs

February 1, 2013 in New blogs

Darina Allen has thrown her hat into the blogging ring! Join the celebrated cookery writer and founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School on her culinary adventures around the world, discovering the hottest food trends.

Lucy writes The Queen of Puddings, dedicated to sweet treats which will make your inner domestic goddess swoon.

Life, with a pinch of sea salt is the Irish Atlantic Salt Blog, writing about the goings on of a bunch of salt fanatics in West Cork and featuring recipes from fellow food lovers and nice stories from their fans.

At The Pomegranate Kitchen, Danielle puts up recipes and diary entries about her trips, including her Ballymaloe cookery course experience, which will be starting soon.

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An Invite to Food Bloggers to Language Supper Clubs

January 30, 2013 in Events

Elaine Walsh, creator of the popular Cookbook Club, has branched out into three language supper clubs – Spanish, Italian and French – held at Odessa in Dublin. Elaine feels that the best approach to a country’s culture is through its food, so learning the language goes hand in hand with learning the food of each region.

Elaine would like to invite food bloggers to attend any of the language supper clubs free of charge. Just contact Elaine directly at and send her a link to your blog – and of course you need to be up for lots of chats! And if you already know one of the languages – even just a little – then so much the better.

The clubs are booking up fast, so please let Elaine know by Friday, 1 February if you’d like to attend. Vegetarian and gluten-free dinner options are also available.

 

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CookwithAvonmore.ie Valentine’s Recipe Competition

January 25, 2013 in Competitions

Create a treat with Valentine’s Day in mind and enter this super recipe competition in association with CookWithAvonmore.ie to win a Celebration Cakes cookery course with Cooks Academy!

CookWithAvonmore.ie is on the lookout for easy, romantic, sumptuous desserts using Avonmore Fresh Dessert Cream. The prize is a Celebration Cakes cookery course for 2 with Cooks Academy plus an Avonmore hamper. And that’s not all! Three lucky runners-up will each be presented with Avonmore hampers.

The competition is open to all food bloggers who come up with the best Valentine’s recipes using Avonmore Fresh Dessert Cream. To enter, each blogger must write a blog post with the recipe and an image and include a tip for using Avonmore Fresh Dessert Cream.  Please sumbit all entries to . The closing date for entries is Tuesday, 12 February.

Four recipes will be picked – one overall recipe and three runners-up. Each recipe submited will appear in the Valentine’s recipe section on www.cookwithavonmore.ie. The overall winning recipe will appear on the homepage and all recipes will be featured on CookwithAvonmore.ie Facebook page and any public relations surrounding the competition. Every recipe will be accredited to the blogger with links back to their blog.

Terms and conditions:

  • Closing date for entries is Friday, 8 February 2013
  • Prize must be taken on 13 April 2013 in Cooks Academy in Dublin
  • Prize is non-transferable
  • No cash in lieu
  • By entering the competition bloggers accept that any recipe and image submitted will be used on the www.cookwithavonmore.ie website and also in various media publications both on and offline

Good luck!

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