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A Bunch of Flours
Just some of the bunch... Uh oh. The latest rash of flour purchases has finally pushed (the contents of) the baking cupboard over the edge. Jostling for position on the top shelf now are all of the...
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Waste Not, Want Not
“Waste not, want not” was a favourite saying of my mothers when we were growing up. It came second only to “you’ll follow the crows for it yet” and both were used regularly whenever there was an...
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The Gingerman
Look at what I bought the other day… /> I was shopping for cookie cutters for my niece but I couldn’t resist this little guy and had to get him for myself. Truth is, I’ve never actually had a...
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Spud Sunday: I’ve Been Shunned
To shun: To avoid deliberately; to keep away from. To bestow with gifts of really swish Shun knives. Luckily, in my case, it’s the latter definition that applies. On account of having come so far to...
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Rate My Kitchen Fail
The truth is, folks, that not everything that pops into the what-shall-I-make-now compartment in my brain turns into kitchen gold. A case in point is last Sunday’s baked alaska-like effort. It was no...
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Spud Sunday: Good At Mash
Of late, I have been working on my mash technique. Knowing that some people can get quite exercised when it comes to the subject of mashed potatoes, it is only right and proper that I should take my...
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Spud Sunday: Mushy Mushy
My non-stick pan, it transpires, is really nothing of the sort. This I discovered today, when I used it to make a colcannon-inspired potato cake, fashioned from julienned potatoes and filled with a...
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Spud Sunday: Mixing It Up
Well, whaddya know, kitchen wishes really can come true. Where once there was a mixing bowl and a wooden spoon, there is now, in my kitchen, a shiny new stand mixer. It’s all thanks to some more than...
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Spud Sunday: Mashing Machine
In what might just have been the ultimate way to spend a Spud Sunday, I was, this past weekend, in far West Kerry, immersed in Féile an Phráta and An Spud-Off Mór (that’s the Festival of the Potato...
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Spud Sunday: A Kitchen Cometh
Blame it on my kitchen. That’s the reply I feel like giving every week when the reminder from Facebook pops up to tell me that likers of The Daily Spud haven’t heard from me in a while. Gee thanks...
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