Author Archives: Dean Brennan

Its Friday night, time for another cocktail you and use any wine you wish in this one. Enjoy INGREDIENTS 1 bottle chilled Moscato 1 10 oz can frozen Bacardi Strawberry daiquiri mix, thawed 1/2 liter lemon-lime soda, chilled fresh strawberries for garnish INSTRUCTIONS Mix wine and daiquiri mix together in a pitcher, fill with sodaContinue reading “Strawberry Wine Punch”

When we first saw the beautiful collection of boards that Caulfield’s Country Boards we immediately thought “cheese board” and that exactly what we are going to talk about with you today. Before we get into the detail about, you choose whatever cheese or bread and fruit you want to have it all down to youContinue reading “An Elegant Cheese Board with Caulfield Country Boards”

It’s a brilliant way to get their fruit into the them because it looks colourful and fun to eat. You can really use any fruit you wish. For the purpose of the receipe I use ones we like in our house. Ingredients Punnet of Strawberries 2 small Oranges 1 x bunch small grapes (can beContinue reading “Kids Fruit Skewers”

Jam is such a simple thing to make and make lots of to keep in your press. When we popped into Hurleys Bros this morning we could smell the fresh scones baking in the oven. So, we had to do them justice by making our own Strawberry Jam to go with them. Along with presentingContinue reading “Homemade Starwberry Jam.”

We are back this week with another recipe from Hurley Bros in Drogheda, after using the delicious turkey in our Summer Sandwich we are taking things to the next level with their delicious home cooked Ham. With the pie crust we not wrapping it around the dish we are going to place it on topContinue reading “Hurleys Ham and Leek Pie”

Another trips to Mexico for Breakfast. Last week we showed you how to do the Breakfast Quesadillas, these are quite similar and straight forward. This recipe is also good for freezing if you wish, also great for lunch on the go if you have gone back to work. You can really put anything into themContinue reading “Breakfast Burritos”

Healthy, tasty, simple and you can put anything you want with granola, It is so easy to make and the smell around the house at it cooks in the oven is amazing. You will see in this recipe we have optional ingredients these are some idea that you can put with granola. For a healthyContinue reading “Easy Homemade Granola”

We as an island do not eat enough fish, I think people under rate fish a fair bit this recipe however is fool proof and an excellent way of getting the kids to eat fish.People panic when they here fish cakes they associate the recipe with 100 things you must do to get them right.Continue reading “Salmon Fish Cakes”

Affogato Coffee and Ice Cream is an easy Italian dessert. It’s so good, you won’t believe it’s only 2 ingredients! Affogato looks and tastes fancy but takes seconds to make. Affogato is the Italian verb to drowned so we are basically drowning Ice Cream into rich coffee.Best of all it does not have to stopContinue reading “Affogato”

Nope this is not healthy but sometimes you need to have something like this every now and then. This is quite simple to make however it is not overly complicated the only you need to be careful about is not boiling the milk and the cream because then you will scramble the eggs. You serveContinue reading “Bread and butter pudding.”