1 year anniversary

Time is moving quick, believe it or not, but this blog is 1 year old already.
I look forward to many more years bloging, even doh its hard sometimes to stick to the schedule and come up with new ideas !

This Fishing Season...

... was rather chaotic for me this year.
Didn't had the chance to go as often out with the boat as I hoped for due to the bad summer we had here in Ireland.

I recently went to the peer here in Clon again but I only caught small Pollock, no mackerel at all.

Well I can only hope its better next year, I keep you posted, in mean time I will put my gear in the storage.

Spiced Salt

Xmas is coming soon and many people look for gifts. Why not making a gift yourself  ?

I made already some spiced salt,Ii used some left over berries and mixed them with sea salt. After I tried the mix on a baking tray as seen in the picture.

Finally fill it once dried in a glass and decorate it nice, voila, a spiced salt as gift. It tastes great and i use it a lot now for cooking.

Snails - Escargot

Today I share a pretty easy recipe with you, Escargot. (Snails) First, get some Burgundy Snails in a can, (if you don't have access to alive ones) and snail houses, than make a garlic butter with herbs.
Place a bit of butter in the snail house, stuff back in the snail, and close the house with more butter as seen on the picture.
After place the tray in the preheated oven at 180 C for 5 minutes, than serve them hot.Tastes super, usually its served with some white bread.

Weekend Tip Rumleys Farm

I nearly forgot to blog this last few days since it was so busy with visitors over, Sophies Bday and Halloween.

We have been on the weekend to Rumleys farm close to Cork and it was really good fun. You should check it out yourself, they have all kinds of activities and animals there, your kids will love it.

here a link to their website

Recipe: The world fastest cake

When you short of time and still want to give your loved ones a dessert after a meal, why not trying this recipe.
Its the world fastest cake, and it tastes actually pretty good if you consider that it only bakes for a few minutes.
This is what you need for one portion:
4 Table Spoon flour
4 Table Spoon cacao powder
4 Table Spoon sugar
1 Table Spoon vanilla sugar
3 Table Spoon milk
3 Table Spoon vegetable oil
1 egg
1 pinch of baking powder

Mix all the ingredients together and fill it in a greased form, i used my crème brule forms for it.
To avoid a mess cover it with some cling film. Dont fill the form completely since the cake will rise.
Place the forms in the micro wave and turn in on at the highest setting for 4 minutes.

After let it rest for half a minute or so, be careful when removing it from the microwave, its extremely hot. Let it cool down a bit, before serving you can give some chocolate cream or powder sugar on top.

Enjoy !

Time change this weekend

Many people seem to have Issues each year with the time change,
therefore I help you now, next Sunday we switch back !

Ireland/UK:   


When local daylight time is about to reach
Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 2:00:00 AM clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 1:00:00 AM local standard time instead

There will be a week until 4th of November where the time difference will be 6 hours between the US East coast and Europe, rather than 5 hours normally.

US:

When local daylight time is about to reach
Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 2:00:00 AM clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 1:00:00 AM local standard time instead

Most people have phones and computers who automatically switch over,
but I for Example need to change manually the following. Kitchen Clock, Oven Clock, Microwave Clock, Car Clocks and my Watch. Happy Changing !

My new toy, a mincer

Life is great, and since I like to try out new stuff, I got myself a new toy. A mincer !
At the moment I have troubles to find cheap meat I can mince, since in the supermarket the minced meat is actually cheaper per Kilo than any other pieces of meat I can find to mince.

At my local butcher i got a kilo of good pork I could mince for a very good price, but I am not as much used any more to pork mince than I thought. I think I will try next time a combination of pork and beef.

Next step would be to produce my own sausages, that will be a interesting adventure, I hope a friend can help me to accelerate my learning since i think its complicated to make a good sausage.

I keep you posted !

Garlic Spaghetti butter

Out of laziness, I didn't want to wait for the butter to melt to make garlic butter, I just used the garlic press and made some spaghetti like garlic butter as you can see here in the picture.

Simple idea, looks great.

Clonfavour favour fyre

I had huge fun last Sunday with the first ever Clonfavour favour fyre, swapping my own produce with others. I ended up with fresh fish, apples, Swiss chard, etc. a full menu :-)

Checkout more pictures and Infos about Clonfavour here.