Since starting this blog almost two months ago, I’ve been making more of an effort to cook more meals from scratch and avoiding the dreaded take away food that we’d been getting a little too used to.
Obviously this has not gone unnoticed at home as a couple of weeks ago I caught my husband flicking through my copy of Easy Food magazine, picking out recipes for me to try! Continue reading
Those of you on Twitter may already know that a few nights ago, a friend of mine called to see me with a rather large sack of cooking apples that she’d gathered on her farm. When she told me she had some apples for me, I had only expected a carrier bag full and was intending on making an Apple Tarts or an Apple Crumble so you can imagine how surprised I was to see her come in the door with a 10kg potato sack full!
That made me think then, that I couldn’t just make Apple Tarts with so many apples so I set about looking for something else to do with them. I received some great suggestions from the Irish Foodies on twitter, which I will be trying out over the next couple of days, but the first thing I wanted to try was a Chutney. Continue reading
Last week, my daughter did a project for school based on “The Olden Days”. Part of the project involved interviewing her grandparents about life when they were children, what their houses were like, about their schools and Christmas time.
We went looking through Nanny and Grandad’s old photo albums for photographs of when they were younger, which we copied and stuck into the project. We also put in a picture of an old recipe book (which we still use today and I will write a post on sometime in the future). While we were doing all this one night last week, we had the brain wave that we would ask my Mum to help us make Boxty and we’d photograph it then stick the recipe and pictures into the project as well to show a recipe that my Grandmother made from time to time when her own children were small. Her children loved Boxty so much that they continued to make it themselves when they had families of their own, and now some of the Grandchildren make it too. So it’s something that’s been passed all the way down the line of our family. Continue reading
Like most kids, mine would love a pet.
So you can imagine their reaction when we visited the grandparents last month (Note: We do visit more than monthy – It’s just taken a while for me to get round to posting!). They don’t have pets either, but as the kids were sitting in the kitchen, Child #1 opened the back door to go play outside then let out a scream and banged the door closed. Of course we all wanted to know what was wrong so we (slowly) opened the door again.
Then we saw this… Continue reading
I first came across this recipe last year when I overheard a conversation in the local pub with some people who had just returned from a trip to America. I thought it sounded really unusual and thought they must be making it up! Not long after though, I bought Jamie Oliver’s book “Jamie’s America” and there it was again, I had a quick look at the list of ingredients, spotted that I had everything in so said I’d give it a go. Continue reading
I stumbled across this recipe on the Odlums website a while ago and have adapted it slightly to use what I have in my own cupboards. I’ve made it quite a few times when I want to use up bananas that are getting very ripe. Although the title says bread, it’s actually more of a cake… Continue reading
Today I had a bit of a dinner dilemma i.e. what to cook? I had forgotten to take anything out of the freezer (as usual!) but had half a roast chicken (left from the kids sandwiches) in the fridge and didn’t think it would be enough for the four of us to have with potatoes, so I was stuck. Continue reading
Hello and welcome to my shiny new blog!
I signed up for this months ago, then never got around to actually writing anything due to not knowing what to actually write about!
But then, I just thought, well maybe it could be a “‘little bit of everything” kind of blog.
So here it is. My very own blog.
Welcome to Mammy’s Kitchen 🙂
Mammy's Kitchen 