One of my favourite places to eat on the West Coast of Ireland, and actually worldwide, is the amazing Shells Surf Cafe. My friends Jane and Miles run a wonderfully informal cafe right on the beach in Strandhill, County Sligo. The food is fresh, local and amazingly delicious. Their approach uses a lot of local, high quality products and many ingredients are home-grown or foraged. Todays garden planner for the
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As I write this there is a howling wind outside and the temperature is close to freezing. Winter in Ireland can be a tricky time for gardens. Most perennials have now died down and all we are left with are the strong evergreen structural plants to give gardens some colour. One plant that I love using for so may different reasons is the Rosemary plant (Rosmarinus officinalis). This wonderful kitchen
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Autumn is upon us and its a wonderful time in nature. My favourite thing in the month of October is to take a day to go blackberry picking and make a delicious batch of blackberry jam. It’s such a basic and lovely thing to do and picking the juicy purple black fruit always reminds me of the wonderful poem by on of Ireland’s most famous poets, Seamus Heaney. In his
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