Archive for June, 2005

Wine Notes June/July 2005

June 25, 2005 No Comments

Craggy Range Te Muna Rd Sauvignon Blanc 2004 15.50 16.5/20 Smart as paint bristlingly mineral Sauvignon Blanc with heavyweight apple and citrus fruit framed by the gravelly aftertaste. Distinctive, interesting, hugely enjoyable Cloudy Bay chaser. Redmond’s Ranelagh,Claudios Georges St Arcade, Thomas’s Foxrock Craggy Range Gimblett Gravels Merlot 2002 c28.99 18.5/20 Hard to imagine that this ...

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Sunflower Seed & Chilli Pesto And Stuffed Peppers

June 13, 2005 No Comments

These were two recipes I devised for the Hospice Foundation ‘Sunflower Day’ appeal and which I demonstrated on Ireland AM TV3, with presenter and ex-model Laura Bermingham towering above me in her stacks! 4 minutes of fame used up, eleven to go! SUNFLOWER SEED & CHILLI PESTO I like this spread over cooked flat pasta ...

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Cooke’s Café

June 13, 2005 No Comments

Recently I’ve had three memorable meals in Cooke’s Café. The first occasion involved the pleasure of watching former fashion model, now PR doyenne, Sonia Reynolds demolish a seafood casserole that would have fed the crew of the Pequod. Indeed, the portion was so substantial I’m convinced Moby Dick’s kid brother was lurking in the bowl, ...

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Alexis

American business psychologist Warren G. Bennis, described by Forbes magazine as ‘the king of leadership gurus’  is on record...

‘YOU DON’T NEED A POSH CANON” – blogpix for newbies

I’ve been a photo hobbyist since I got given  my first serious camera as a fourteenth birthday present. A...

YOU’LL NEVER BLOG ALONE – the day I discovered I’m a blogger and other stories

There are now over 400 food bloggers in Ireland. Though www.forkncork.com my food and drink website, Ireland’s first, has...

Natural Wine: Dog’s bollocks or the King’s new clothes?

Natural Wine Tasting at Fallon & Byrne, Dublin  by Le Caveau My first encounter with what has come to...

BLOG – variations on a sweet-and-sour theme

I cooked my first sweet and sour dish in 1984. Pork, of course. The recipe came from Ken Hom’s...

BOOK REVIEW Dunne & Crescenzi – The Menu

“We really cook very simply. Remember that the methods and ingredients have been used for generations and in the...

BLOG – 2 good blends tested but why is most coffee in Ireland shit?

  I’ve just been road testing a brace of quality coffees from a small and relatively new Irish supplier,...

That’s Amarone – Masi & Serego Alighieri tasting

Valpolicella is a viticultural zone of the Italian province of Verona, east of Lake Garda, ranking as the second...

BLOG – of store cupboards and other matters

Yesterday I set out to clean out my store cupboard – well, not exactly ‘clean out’ but at least...

RESTAURANT REVIEW – Lee Kee

My first encounter with Chinese food was in Manchester way back in the last century.  I was doing evening...