Caroline Hennessy

A stack of library books on a restaurant table

Currently on @griffsk
@griffski.bsky.social's Eat The Ones You Love from this week's library stack.

Ooh...

Muesli bars, arranged in rows in a tin

There's always a tin of something oaty in the kitchen and these muesli bars are our current favourites. Crunchy, fruity, seedy and nutty, they're also cut with popcorn to avoid being too dense. Now I just need to reverse engineer them and figure out the recipe....

A small rainbow over a green Irish field

Saturday rainbows.

#speirgorm

The two ways to make food: the right way, or the ultra-processed way American chef, experimental archaeologist, and author Dr Bill Schindler, co-ordinator of an innovative UCC food enterprise course, explains how traditional food practices can nourish us into the futur...

American chef, experimental archaeologist, and author Dr Bill Schindler, co-ordinator of an innovative UCC food enterprise course, explains to Caroline Hennessy how traditional food practices can nourish us into the future in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

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The COMMENTS 😂

100% this.

No one else in the cottage noticed, despite my very excited alerts 😂

But glorious.

Fall head over heels for heart-healthy food this Valentines Day Eat for your cardiovascular health with colourful, fresh, and tasty foods.

Heart-healthy food this Valentine’s Day ❤️

Thanks to Katie O'Sullivan for talking to me about how to eat for your cardiovascular health with colourful, fresh, and tasty foods. 

Read more in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social

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#valentinesday

A rosy pink sunrise through the trees

The most perfect sunrise on #ValentinesDay

#speirgorm

Sunrise over an Irish country field

Sunrise.

#Ireland

A jug of daffodils in front of an illustration of Irish pantry ingredients

Spring.

Daffodils from a lost woodlands, always appreciated by the few that see them. Also, so much love for this #blastabooks print of the Irish pantry.

#mycottagekitchen

If you're ever looking for Paula Daly's excellent cookbooks, @thebookshopie.bsky.social is the place to go!

Excellent books, especially that first brown one!

Catherine Fulvio: Teaching teens ‘a sense of pride’ in cooking Catherine Fulvio’s online cooking course is ideal for transition year students who wish to learn new skills

Catherine Fulvio: Teaching teens ‘a sense of pride’ in cooking.

In today's Irish Examiner, I talk to Catherine Fulvio about her online Cooking Essentials Certificate Course and how important it is that teenagers learn how to cook.

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Sunrise over an Irish country road

Friday.

#Ireland

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Photo of a plate showing Boyle's air pump and other apparatus from New experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air (London, 1682)

#otd in 1627, chemist Robert Boyle was born in Lismore, Waterford in Ireland. His experiments with the air pump in the 1660s proved the existence of a vacuum. Boyle's Law describes the relationship between the pressure & volume of a gas.

'Lime Tree Shade.' (1913) Like many talented women artists, Amy Browning has been overlooked by art historians. She's a compelling painter, much of her output was impressionistic, aimed at catching the subjective experience of light and fleeting fragments of perception.

Cake in the making.

Trusty old food processor (20+ years on from being an unappreciated birthday present 😂) making easy work of this batter.

#cakemaking
#Januarycake

With a handle like that, you're probably living in my house already 🐈‍⬛️🐈

A stack of chocolate chip cookies

January me is appreciating pre-Christmas me who made and froze a stash of choc chip cookie dough amidst all the December madness so that the girls get to have warm cookies after jet lag school days.

#jetlagfood

Love her recipes and books

Gingerbread house, part 4: decoration day! Bedecked with as many sweets as will fit, royal icing icicles and a ridge line of liquorice allsorts, it's finally done. Best one ever? I think we'll top it in 2026...

#BibliocookGingerbreadHouse

Yes!

The teen watched it the other night with a comprehensive family tree of relations & connections 😂

Making friends with your freezer over Christmas Avoid wasting money and food by using your freezer to store ingredients, home-prepped meals and leftovers. No-waste caterer Orla McAndrew gives her top tips for making the most of this underused kitch...

Avoid wasting money and food by using your freezer to store ingredients, home-prepped meals and leftovers. Thanks to Orla McAndrew for sharing her top tips on making the most of this underused kitchen appliance in Friday's Irish Examiner.

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Gingerbread house, part 3: assembly.

The walls are up!
(With the help of a few cans of fish.)
The roof is on!
(More can support action.)
And we're ready to proceed to the sweetest part of this job...decoration!
(Local sweet shops have been plundered.)

#BibliocookGingerbreadHouse

Gingerbread house, part 2: moulding & baking. Pressing the dough into the mould and baking it doesn't take a lot of time. But it does have to be done three times. A certain amount of fatigue sets in after round two and, by the end of the third time, I'm on my own...

#BibliocookGingerbreadHouse