Happy Birthday Ash!

5.28.11 : 148/365

You got to see pictures of J's 30th birthday celebrations recently, and now here are some for Ash's twenty-something birthday celebrations at our place...

Yeah, we had Raclette... we're cheese fans, what? :)

Happy birthday (again) Ash! I hope it was everything you hoped for!

Flowers II

5.23.11 : 143/365

Here's my lilac making a go at it. This is it's second year, as it was a housewarming gift from my parent's last spring, and it's doing incredibly well. It has at least doubled in size, beautiful!

Presenting the new bbq...

5.19.11 : 139/365

Told you she was shiny and pretty!!

Flowers

5.16.11 : 136/365

A few more garden shots. You probably already know this but I'll tell you anyway; I didn't start any of these from seeds on my own, we all know how the herbs turned out!

Ohhh Shiny!

5.13.11 : 133/365

We decided to finally replace our old, less than 'good' bbq with a new, shiny one! (Wait until you see it in action!)

This was a very exciting purchase for us as it's no secret that we love our B. B. Q.!!

Ethereal (Wordless)

5.12.11 : 132/365

I also paint!

I paint, but not your traditional art. As a graphic designer you can imagine how in love I am with graphics...I wanted to paint them to hang on my walls. You'll have to forgive the low quality of the photos, I'm not really good at taking pictures. Some of the images I designed in Illustrator. I printed them, and used a projector on the wood and painted them. Others I just free-hand drew. Anyway, I'm addicted to doing this it's so much fun. Enjoy!

So What have I been Up to ?

So for the past 2 weeks I have being  staging in Chapter one in Dublin 

its a  Michelin stared restaurant .

 http://www.chapteronerestaurant.com/

When I am not working I have being busy getting the garden together and cooking using the local produce  .I have found wild sorrel , watercress and sloes to mention a few of the free food that is around the farm .

My gran-uncle has the best cooking apples they have the beautiful colour . Here is some jelly I made . The recipe is from the Ballymaloe cooking school book.

Blueberry cheese cake from Rachel's book Bake 

Chickens .

Rhubarb plants 

Pumpkins 

before

after

So we Have onions, beet-root , lettuce , beans ,tomatoes, dill, coriander, thyme , lovage, sage, rosemary, potatoes,chives , cabbage and pumpkins.

 

Black currant icing .

Black berry and apple tart.

wedding food 

Darragh our new addition to our Family