The last recipe reminded me of this one! It's a traditional Irish Halloween treat. Halloween in Ireland used to be a time for ghost stories and fortune telling and the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day (November 1st, the Hallows whose Eve Halloween is) and All Souls' Day (November 2nd), at least as much as dressing up and collecting treats. This ( Read more... )

Made my Christmas cake on Labor Day, but this is a much lighter fruit cake that my mother makes. Hence the Imperial measurements! Very little work, but start the night before. A brack is a fruit bread - the name comes from the Irish "breac", meaning speckled ( Read more... )

Made these for N&D's birthday back in October. I've been meaning to save the recipe here since. *procrastinates ( Read more... )

750 ml water ( Read more... )

I love his use of water and trees, alders and bogs in particular. So farewell, Mr Heaney, God rest you.

Song
A rowan like a lipsticked girl ( Read more... )

2 cups plain flour ( Read more... )

1 cup slivered almonds ( Read more... )

Anzac Park

All parks have their monument. Its a stake in the heart
that tethers them or wards off subdivision.
In Itchy Park, the obelisk I’d almost forgotten
listed the names of the First World War. They were Our Part
but we picked the black lettering of their initials out
from the marble. The names followed much the same pattern
as our roll call at ( Read more... )

Night Air(for Dermot ( Read more... )

Colors passing through us
Marge PiercyPurple as tulips in May, mauve ( Read more... )