Whoohoo!
Catherine Fulvio (from the Ballyknocken Cookery School) on Ireland Am gave Our Grannies Recipes a wonderful review. I’m bust trying to figure out how to embed the video bt for now I’ll give you the link.
Here
Enjoy,
Eoin
Filed under: on January 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »
That’s Right, we are at No. 8!
After five weeks in the chart, Our Grannies Recipes is sitting nicely at No. 200 in the top 1000 books and at No. 8 in the Food & Drink category.
It’s very exciting to see how well it is going and I want to thank everyone who submitted recipes and who has gone out and bought copies. It would be excellent if we could tip into the top five so push your friends and families to pop out and buy copies for their friends this Christmas!
Remember that €1 of every copy sold goes to age action!
Thanks again,
Eoin
Filed under: Editor's Notes, Housekeeping, Site News on December 2nd, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What we have been waiting for!
So, finally, the book is on the shelves. I’m delighted with the way ot looks and hopefully readers and book buyers will be too!
Don’t forget that €1 will be winging its way to Age Action Ireland for every copy sold and in these times of budgetary crisis, that’s no bad thing.
€1 to Age Action Ireland
I’ll keep the site updated with any more information as it comes in!
Eoin
Filed under: Editor's Notes, Housekeeping on October 24th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Decisions, Decisions
The voters have it. With some tiny changes to allow for spot lamination and other such wonders, we chose the most popular jacket for Our Grannies’ Recipes. You can see a nice image of the cover below.
The Final Cover
More news to come later,
Eoin
Filed under: Editor's Notes, Housekeeping on October 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Updates
Seems we have been linked to by print and online notices, which we greatly appreciate.
The cover decision is in a knife edge and we’ll need a decision by the end of the week, so go vote.
I’ll be posting more info on the book next week, including a sample recipe!
All the best,
Eoin
Filed under: Editor's Notes, Housekeeping, Links on September 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Covers, cover, covers
So here are the three cover options. We’d love your thoughts. we already have the retailers and we are leaning one way. I’ll explain which way when we get votes and make a final decision, just in case we disagree and we have to change our minds!
Which Cover do you prefer
Total Voters: 19
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Option One
Option 2
Option 3
Thoughts welcome,
Eoin
Filed under: Editor's Notes, Housekeeping on August 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tomatoes are on my mind today as the three potted tomato plants i have a small involvement with are coming along nicely. So Kevin Thornton’s recipe for a Tomato tartlet sounds very nice indeed.
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Biggin’ up The Murphy’s Ice Cream Book of Sweet Things
The wonderful Murphy’s brothers got a mention in the Irish Times magazine on Saturday. they posted on their blog about it too. You can read more about their book on the Mercier Website.
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Quick Links
I’m hoping that The Dublin Gobbler has more to offer as despite its size, Dulin is somewhat under represented in the way of good food blogs.
Here
If you don’t read Lidl treats, then you should.
Here
Last but not least, I was in Loches in Touraine, France last week and consumed the most perfect choclate eclaire. I thought this little video might bring some of the glory of the eating to life.
Filed under: Butter, Choclate, Dairy, Links, Milk, Recipes, Sunday Treats, Tomato on August 10th, 2008 | No Comments »
Links and ideas to spoil you and yours with on a Sunday morning (or early afternoon)
Little Bird Eats has a nice recipe for Pancakes (with Maple Syrup, excellent), Grannies own is here.
The Good Mood Food Blog (by the wonderful and soon to be Mercier Author, Donal Skehan) has a lovely recipe for Apple & Cinnamon Porridge and a pretty healthy one too.
For the less health conscious amongst us the Tastie blog over at Spicendipity there is a truly wonderful sounding Toad in the Hole recipe from the end of June. Tastie and Tempting as the saying goes!
Have a tasty day,
Eoin
Filed under: on July 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To all those who are visiting from Stumbled Upon, welcome.
Feel free to read, try and comment on our recipes. We’d welcome some new submissions too even though the final selection has now been made!
All the best,
Eoin Purcell
Site & Book Editor
Filed under: on July 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Ingredients
4-6 Tomatos (depending on numbers)
250g of Breadcrumbs
1 Onion (diced)
1 clove Garlic
150g grated Cheddar Cheese
Method
Slice the top off the tomatos and scoop out the insides.
Mix these in a bowl with the other ingredients
Replace the insides of each tomato with the mix
Bake in a warm oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
A note form the cook
My granny used to make these as tea time treats and they always went over well. Warm tomato was always delicious.
Filed under: Breadcrumbs, Cheddar Cheese, Garlic on June 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
