Today’s post introduces a new book-in-progress by Irish farmerette, blogger, writer, wife and mother, Lorna Sixsmith. Married for over twenty years, Lorna and her husband Brian live with their two children on a busy dairy farmer in the South-East of Ireland. Her new book will tell the story of life as an Irish farmer’s wife. […]
Archives for July 2013
Potato Bread – Yeast Recipe
Potato bread made with yeast, flour and mashed potato is a hearty bread, perfect for serving with soups and stews. There are many traditional Irish recipes potato breads and cakes including soda farls made with potato, boxty potato pancakes made with mashed and grated raw potato, and potato cakes made with mashed potatoes. And of […]
Blueberry Lemon Crumb Cake
Blueberry lemon crumb cake is deliciously moist, and speckled with scrumptious, juicy blueberries baked right into the batter, and topped with crumbly, rich streusel. Cake for breakfast! A very American phenomenon. I was astonished at the first pot-luck breakfast meeting I experienced here in America. I didn’t quite understand how we would eat ‘breakfast’, but […]
