Body & Soul Festival - One Family's Experience

Chanel and I agree... 'The best things in life are free; the second best things are very expensive.' We're just back from the Body & Soul Festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath. Three days camping. Some people were surprised to hear Read more

June Art Challenge - Week 2

Good morning and happy Fathers Day to all the brilliant Dads out there. We'll be celebrating later with dinner and a poetry evening in which we (let's call us the young people) will need to refer to books or Read more

Thoughts on the Tuam Baby Scandal

I had a baby in Ireland in 1995. I was single and living in Dublin at the time and before falling pregnant I thought this country a modern place, a place for the young. I was wrong. Ireland was and Read more

Lest we Forget

Me: Let's surprise Daddy and have the weeds and stones gathered before he gets home. Sadhbh: Ok, ok Mammy, he'll be so happy won't he? Note: The beautiful art work in this post is by illustrator Katie Daisy, click HERE for more Read more

First Draft Novel - Done

Afternoon all and Happy Easter. This post is a few days overdue but if you follow me on facebook you already know the good news is I finished the first draft of my book Tuesday. Nine months, 85,000 words and Read more

In My Kitchen

Simple Chicken Curry with Seasons Apples & Onions

We picked our apples on Sunday last…

…to a captive audience !!!

Here is our tiny but perfectly lovely crop..

I decided to make a chicken curry with some of these plus some of our home grown onions.

This is such a simple recipe but tastes delicious. You will need…

(This pic should also feature a measuring jug but I forgot to include it so apologies for that but do get it out!)

About 25g/1oz of butter

3 or 4 fillets of chicken

2 tablespoons of curry powder

2 onions, chopped (ours are small so I used 4 on this occasion)

2 apples, chopped (I left the skins on for the extra goodness, rusticity & because the colours look so pretty)

2 tablespoons to half a carton of cream (who am I to dictate! Let us say cream to taste!)

Salt and pepper

Boiled rice to serve

Ok so let’s get started!!!!!! I’m giving instructions in a slightly different way to the norm to account for anyone who is not used to or speedy at chopping/cooking in general so if that’s you I hope it helps : )

In this spirit it’s a good idea to check the type of rice you are using so you can work your timings out in advance and have everything ready at the same time! Read more

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