Sometimes it’s just too cold to do anything outside (like last week’s -35 degrees celsius) but I still want to be outside. In warmer weather, I would feel a tad guilty if I just went for a drive and didn’t get out for a walk but I feel no such thing in wintertime. Look (below)…
Have Taste Buds Will Travel
One of my favourite things about travelling is food. I know I’m not alone in this specific type of wander-food-lust. I could easily spend hours of my life in foreign-to-me grocery stores (ask the poor, patient souls who have travelled with me). I once almost slept on the streets of Poland when my thrilling rampage…
November Nesting
When the chill starts to sink in, the land turns shades of brown and grey and the light fades early, what do you do to find comfort and create cozy? Here are some of my favourite November nesting moments: Knitting (while netflix and chilling) More knitting… a scarf with peach coloured angora yarn Sipping an…
Salad for the Season
This week I could not bring myself to have my nutritious, spirulina, protein punch of a morning smoothie… it was just too cold to swallow So, I had to make a warm breakfast smoothie (more on that in another post). Living in the Northern hemisphere, Fall forces a change in the way I eat. Fresh salads…
Happiness is a Hot Handpie
Yesterday was the first day of Spring (yay!) and International Happiness Day! I spent the day going on a walk in the sunshine and a food-venture to Borden-Carelton, Prince Edward Island. As it happens, it was the most appropriate thing to do on such a day, because the taste of a hot, handmade handpie is pure happiness….
Champ
While visiting my grandfather’s hometown in County Down, our relative took us out to a fancy luncheon. When the waitress asked our choice of side for the meal a unanimous “Champ” could be heard. Champ is quite simply the best mashed potatoes you will ever have, but I might be biased. They are also very spring-like…
Irish Breakfasts
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! You can pretend you’re waking up in Ireland any day by cooking up a hardy Irish Breakfast. Depending on where in Ireland you’re eating breakfast and who is cooking it for you there are slightly different variants of what constitutes a “full Irish breakfast.” The typical meal consists of variants of…
Darling Dingle
The Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland is truly stunning. The town of Dingle itself is the most darling, bustling little place. Its tidy main streets are lined with colourful stone buildings housing pubs, shops of irish linen and cashmere, and an extremely popular ice-cream parlour. It was first of June when I was there and it…
Brown Bread + County Clare
In June 2015 my boyfriend and I went on a whirlwind tour of Ireland. It was his first time in Ireland and our first time with a car since we moved to the UK in March – so we wanted to see as much as possible and drive until the wheels fell off. We got an outrageously cheap flight…
Heritage Kitchen
St Patrick’s Day, the holiday that has everyone wishing they were Irish, is fast approaching. It is with that good-natured green envy that I will be sharing Irish morsels of family, food, and travel with you this week. But first, a few words on Heritage in my Kitchen: I love learning about heritage in the kitchen (my own…
Island Hearth 