One of these days…

A week in May with two dinner recipes

enormous — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:46:00 +0000

Meal Plan for Week of 12/05/2025 – 18/05/2025 Monday – 12/05/2025 Hearty pasta soup Monday is a busy night round our place with Nipper 3.0 at guitar, Nipper 2.0 at singing lessons, me coming in from the office, and Himself out at running. The latter is a casual running group that evolved partly from a …

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I’m wrecked; no you’re wrecked

enormous — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000

All that jollity is, inevitably, followed by exhaustion. Himself had the good sense to take Monday off as well as Friday. I’m an absolutely chronic procrastinator about most things except getting out of bed and just getting the week started. So into work I go. This week’s menu is fairly standard stuff but includes the …

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Fab 50 Weekly Menu

enormous — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:28:00 +0000

This week was all about preparation. Himself was celebrating a milestone birthday and had invited about 70 of his closest family members and friends to mark this momentous occasion with him. Meal Plan for Week of 04/11/2024 – 10/11/2024 Monday – 04/11/2024 PREPARATION The party is planned to start at 8pm so I am not …

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Do the hokey pokey

enormous — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:45:54 +0000

Just in the door from a long overdue trip north to Ramelton to visit my very good friend, Dinners. All the chats, great food and drink and while the kids and menfolk surfed on Saturday, Dinners and I took to a beachside sauna and had a dip at Dooey Strand. Yes I was in the …

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Raspberry and Milled Linseed Muffins

enormous — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:05:29 +0000

Despite the fact that Himself hates a recipe with a preamble, this requires one. I love linseed sprinkled on my porridge in the morning. Both Dunnes and Lidl do very nice linseed (aka flaxseed) crunch which usually includes some other tasty morsels like dried cranberries or tiny dried apple crumbs or I don’t know, whatever. …

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What we are eating this week

enormous — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 20:50:53 +0000

Thursday – 23/09/2021 Dinner Speedy sausage stroganoff tagliatelle This was a new recipe for us. I spend at least 30 mins every week perusing food magazines on Dublin City Libraries Libby App. If you have a library card in Ireland I think you can access it. Thousands of magazines at your fingertips. I’m writing this …

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Tomato Soup for Nipper 3.0

enormous — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:48:50 +0000

Roseanne’s Tomato Soup It’s really not a soup day but I made this at the beginning of the week and reheated a portion for lunch today with Nipper 3.0. I made up this soup for her after she came home raving about the delicious tomato 🍅 soup she had in her friend’s house. I tried …

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Back to school with bangers

enormous — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:50:06 +0000

Back to school and back to our weekly menus. Time to get organised and make sure everybody is well fed for all the extra activities!

Christmas Cards: yay or nay?

enormous — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:52:15 +0000

I asked my family to tell me what were their highlights of 2016. I had this vague notion that I might type them up, print them and send them out with our Christmas cards. This plan rests on a vital activity that is yet to happen: sending Xmas cards. Maybe next year one of my …

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Foiled again

enormous — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 21:01:32 +0000

I returned from the shops. I was irritated about buying less than optimal tin foil again. “Foiled again,” he said. It bothers me that the too-small tin foil bothers me. It can join a list of small irritations that I allow to crowd my day. I know I should let go. In the space that would …

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