Married an Irish Farmer

• Irish Coffee Ice Cream 6 days ago Holy crap. It feels like ages since I’ve posted. {I have a good excuse though. If you want the goss straight away, fast forward to the end*} As you know, ice cream comes easy here. Fresh sweet cream abounds. I had the fortune to stumble upon a coffee roaster in Galway recently. They go by...
• Irish Ramson + Kale + Grapefruit Linguine 3 weeks ago Long before I was familiar with
• Welsh Cakes 4 weeks ago Sundays are the one day of the week where I am not preparing 2-3 separate brekkies. Richard can usually take a break from late morning until late afternoon so we’ll share a lazy brunch of eggs, American crispy bacon and buttermilk pancakes {Geoffrey’s favorite}. Sometimes I’ll...
• Crème Fraîche Lemon Sea-Salted Ice Cream 1 month ago I have been experimenting with milk again. How can I resist when I am surrounded by such mass bovinity in all of its glory? The dairy possibilities are endless in this kitchen. There is literally milk everywhere, clearly most notably on my brain. Over the past few years I have performed my fair...
• Cloughjordan Wood-Fired Bakery 2 months ago Joe Fitzmaurice’s bread is essentially art. Edible art that goes up in *taste* value as it ages {see his remarkable long-fermented rye sourdough recipe below.} Carefully designed, crafted, nurtured, and loved, each loaf is fired in the beautiful brick oven bakery he built at his home located...

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