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May 13th, 2012
Tenerife part 3: it’s all about the food: mojo, papas arugadas and flan
The afternoon we arrived at Bodegas Monje was utterly stunning. The sky was a shimmering turquoise and the rows of vines glowed emerald green, rolling down towards the sea. What a gorgeous place.
First up was a tour of the winery (meaning that we had to head into the gloom of the cellar… boooo.) Still, I learned absolutely loads about wine making (the winery produce a stunning range of wines, mostly...
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English Mum |
Apr 22nd, 2011
Knackered Mother’s Wine Guide to Easter
So my lovely gorgeous friend Helen, wine expert, International Wine Challenge judge, writer of Knackered Mother’s Wine Club and all-round wine smarty pants, is used to my incessant pestering for guest posts on wine. Happily, she’s lifted the restraining order just enough to accept a request for a no-holds-barred guide to Easter wine, even how to match wine with the dreaded chocky egg. Over to you,...
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English Mum |
Dec 18th, 2010
Gifts for magnificent mums and delectable dads. The Christmas Countdown Gift Guide
FOR THE MUMS
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Dec 7th, 2010
The Knackered Mother’s Christmas Wine Survival Guide
It just so happens that I have an amazing friend, Hels, who is also a wine expert. She used to be a buyer for a big supermarket and now works for a fabulous wine company. I know – how lucky am I? She’s very busy doing international winey things and judging at wine exhibitions, but I managed to nab her to give us the low down on Christmas booze.
The culinary countdown to Christmas has begun...
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English Mum |
Oct 30th, 2010
Curious Matt gives us the lowdown on what Chilean miners are drinking this year, dahling
I thought it was quite interesting, when I was watching the tv programme yesterday covering the rescue of the Chilean miners from the San José mine, that the voiceover guy said: ’in the past, Chile was only ever famous for its ‘con carne”. Yes okay, so it made me laugh, but seriously? I only knew about Chile because of their rather scrummy wine.
I was going to do a Chilean food post,...
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English Mum |
Dec 21st, 2009
Auntie L’s birthday curry and home made Christmas liqueur
My sister in law, the lovely Auntie L, has her birthday ridiculously close to Christmas, so on Saturday we decided to throw her a little birthday party. It also just happens that the lovely chaps at Cobra Beer had contacted me a while ago and said ‘guess what, we know you like curry so we’re going to send you some beer to go with it’.
No way. ’What, like no strings? You’re...
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English Mum |
Oct 23rd, 2009
Restaurant Review: The Forge Restaurant, Pottlereagh, Carnaross
So here, finally, is the review of The Forge Restaurant where we celebrated English Grandma’s 70th. We went with open minds because (let’s face it, like most restaurants) some of our friends had had fabulous experiences, and others not so good - we’d also heard tales of being rushed through desserts to free up tables, but when I phoned I spoke to a very friendly waitress who assured me that we...
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Jun 18th, 2009
A Curiously clever combination: butternut squash risotto and NZ wines
I love butternut squash. I love its sweetness, its softness, and its beautiful orangey colour. I love risotto too, and the combination of both of them is one of my favourite meals. I happened to mention to the lovely Matt, fellow blogger and ’Wine Evangelist’ (I love that title) at Curious Wines that I was going to knock up a butternut squash risotto and he very kindly offered to send me...
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Jan 28th, 2009
Sour Grapes? Not likely.
So this is really clever. Lovely Lar, over at Ireland’s best wine blog, Sour Grapes , has taken different recipes from various Irish food bloggers nominated for the Irish Blog Awards, and matched them with some rather outstanding wine choices.
To accompany my Sunday lunch of beef stew with fluffy parsley dumplings. Lar suggests a Clos du Val Cabernet Sauvignon coming in at a breathtaking €27.49,...
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