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Baby it’s Cold Outside – Plants, Life and a Coleslaw
I’m the first to admit that food-blogging in the winter hasn’t been my strong point. I’d much rather take photos in those bright Scandinavian days of spring and summer. I think it’s time for a new...
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Back in Black…and a Cup of Soup
So much for the signs of spring mentioned in my last post. Winter is truly upon us here in Denmark. I realised after I’d taken some of these photos how much black clothing predominated in them. At...
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Bunny Business and Carrot Cake
Spring has sprung here in Denmark, albeit in the usual pubescent kind of way where it doesn’t really know whether to rain, hail or shine. One of the things I love here is that after enduring the long,...
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A Couple of Hippies and a Beetroot Cake
Over the past couple of years we’ve been striving more and more in our house to eat locally grown/produced food, waste less etc. – it just feels like the right thing to do and I find it makes me enjoy...
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Eton Mess meets Rhubarb Fool
Wikipedia: “Eton mess is a traditional English dessert consisting of a mixture of strawberries, pieces of meringue and cream, which is traditionally served at Eton College’s annual cricket game against...
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Broccoli Flower Salad
As you may know we started trying to grow some of our own vegetables this year. It’s been quite the learning experience. One of things we have learned is that if broccoli goes unattended during a warm...
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Scones
Scones are by no means rocket science, but they are bloody good. Where I come from you just have to have a good scone once in while. The real name of the recipe is ‘Mummy’s Sweet White Scones’, but I...
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Apple Sourdough Bread
Autumn to me means apples and I’ve been seeing lots of lovely apple recipes floating about. My food blogger friend Louise of Louilicious has been whipping up delicious apple creations left and right as...
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Spicy Pumpkin Soup with Pan-Fried Carrot Strips
Halloween has always been celebrated in a big way in Ireland, where I come from. When I was growing up it was more about dressing up, spooking each other, playing games such as apple bobbing rather...
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Christmas, Cocktails and an Underground Evening
I’ve never exactly seen myself as the bartender type, but when given the chance recently at The Union bar here in Copenhagen, I felt quite at home. I was invited, along with 19 other food bloggers, to...
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Tales from an Urban Farmyard in Copenhagen
Here’s a story about some chickens that came before the eggs… One of the lovely eggs from our Cochin hens – they taste even better than they look Once upon a time A couple of years ago when friends...
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Sausage Time
Truth be told for most of my life I have had an aversion to sausages. It started at an early age when watching Play School on television. Each episode had a part called ‘through the window’ where they...
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Roast Vegetables with Creamy Lemon Quinoa
Over the past while I have found myself introducing more and more meatless dishes to the diet of my little family. Anytime a vegetarian recipe catches my eye, I pounce on it and give it a try. This...
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Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake
Hello! I know, it’s been a while. I think Instagram has been fulfilling my need to post photos of food for a while now. It was nice though to get the ‘real’ camera out again and take a picture or two...
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