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Dunnes Special Offers: Until 14th February
Dunnes Stores is not to be outdone in the Valentine’s race, matching Lidl’s price of €3.99 for a dozen roses! Is it just me or is anybody else baffled they can go so cheap? It was only a few Celtic...
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Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Dijon Sauce
This weekend I faced a momentous task; not since the Amazon was navigated, the North Pole traversed and the earth’s atmosphere breached has such an epic challenge been faced. I cooked for my...
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Lidl Special Offers: From Monday 14th February
From Monday the 14th February Lidl have a number of pensioner-friendly specials, mainly focussed on the garden. So much so, in fact, that their entire weekly offers printed ad contains nothing other...
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Shopping Snapshots – February 20th 2011
My weekly shop yesterday involved a bit of a wild card – Mother in Law coming to dinner. This meant that my usual hasty lazy thrown-together stir fry of a Sunday evening would have to be replaced by a...
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Aldi Special Offers Until 9th April
Aldi this week has some excellent Super 6 fruit and veg choices for just 49c including 6 pack tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, two pack avocados, 1kg potatoes, 500g carrots / parsnips and bunches of...
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Can You Handle It? The ‘Icky’ Side of Food
The other night Mr Gastronomics was dispatched to the kitchen to top up our plate of cheese, crackers and Chorizo (don’t judge, it was Desperate Housewives night). When he returned, he was slightly...
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Chilli, Fennell & Pancetta Pork Sausage with Hot Pepper Ragu
Another ‘un adapted from that great big book I WILL find time to review at some stage was this nyummy pork recipe which so happened to tie in nicely with my contribution to #eatonlyirishforaweek. By...
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Chorizo & Pork Stew with Mixed Beans
Well I finally have my new kitchen. And new house. And new mortgage, and new bills, and new government charges, but we’ll concentrate on the good news When the champagne prosecco (it is 2012 after...
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Bank Holiday Boy Treat: Black Pudding Stuffed Pork Tenderloin Wrapped in...
I’m not gonna lie. This isn’t a dish you can throw together on a Corrie ad break while the kettle’s boiling on a Wednesday evening. It’s a weekend dish, and probably, a bank holiday one at that. It...
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Midweek Supper: Swedish Meatballs Recipe
This dish was inspired by Ikea. Now there’s a line you don’t read very often. I’m sure we’ve all stood in the Ikea cafeteria, gazed wearily up at the menu board and pointed with a pencil-flattened...
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