On Monday the President and the First Lady of the United States of America Barack and Michelle Obama will arrive in Ireland on a brief visit. When the couple are at home in Washington they often eat out on a ‘date night’ at one of the capital’s restaurants. As they are in Ireland for a short visit, it is unlikely they will visit one of Dublin’s restaurants. Almost two years ago when they were on a trip to the French capital they ate with friends at a Parisian bistro. This was somewhat controversial at the time, as the US president, had turned down an invitation to dine at the Élysée Palace with President Nicolas Sarkozy while he was in Paris.
Category Archives: Food/Wine
♥ La Fontaine de Mars
Filed under Food/Wine, France, Paris, Restaurants/Cafés, Travel
♥ Sunday
I was working over the weekend, all day Saturday and for a few hours today. Yesterday on the way home I was feeling slightly lazy, so I stopped for a pizza and a glass of wine. The pizza was rather large and today the contemplation of all the carbs and the calories in the aforementioned pizza send me scuttling home to cook for myself. I love simple recipes; this is a Jill Dupliex one, for chorizo with sweet potatoes, I came across a couple of years ago. The quantities given will feed four people.
♥ Happy Easter
The weather has been glorious in these parts over the last few days, mainly warm hazy sunshine. Today started off with a wintry chill but thankfully the sun came out to cast a glow over everything this afternoon. The curtain call on the recent sun-bathed days has been a series of beautiful sunsets like the one below. I took the photo as the sun went down over the Wicklow Mountains on Easter Thursday evening.
Filed under Celebrations, Food/Wine, Musings, Recipes
Books for Cooks
If a trainee fairy maniacal working her way through ‘Bewitchment for Dummies’ were to cast a spell which meant I had to eat lunch in the same place everyday for evermore, I hope that place would be the Books for Cooks café in London.
♥ Soooo easy
This is the only recipe I have ever come across that is absolutely and totally foolproof. The only way it can go wrong is if you forget to turn the oven on.
♥ Cure
I needed an antidote to the overdose of carbs and calories I consumed this weekend. So I had a simple dish of roasted vegetables for supper this evening. Roasted veggies are a great way of incorporating the recommended five a day servings of fruit and vegetables into your daily diet; making them is simplicity itself.
♥ Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday heralds the beginning of Lent which starts tomorrow, Ash Wednesday. The forty days of Lent are a period of abstinence in the Christian tradition . As a child, abstinence meant giving up chocolate and sweets. I made this bearable by crossing the days off the calendar in a countdown to the Easter Day chocolate fest.
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Just Add Attitude
Just Add Attitude 