Giveaway
To celebrate the launch of my my new blog name, I'm giving away one very unique Fern & Follie tote bag filled with some fabulous goodies - the contents will be worth over 25 euro!
A new beginning
From My Emerald Kitchen to Fern & Follie In 2020 I decided to take a break from blogging after years of posting a new recipe nearly every week. There were a few reasons for my decision but the main one being that I had lost the joy in blogging. I…
Honey + Cinnamon, The Little Hand Stirred Jam Shop
Back in January, my fiancé and I drove from Melbourne up to Sydney and used the map from Empty Esky to visit some local businesses that were affected by the bush fires that were still going on back then. Little did we all know that after surviving such a huge disaster,…
How to cook with lamb
This is a sponsored post to help promote the European #LambTryItLoveIt campaign to highlight the benefits of cooking with European lamb. For more recipe inspiration, follow @TryLamb on Facebook and Instagram. Although I've been cooking with lamb for a number of years, there’s still a lot I don’t know. For example, when it…
Blanco Niño Authentic Tortilleria
"Authentic Tortillas from Tipperary? Nah, that has to be a mistake!" Nope, rest assured, my local food hero of today, 'Blanco Niño', is nothing short of sheer brilliance. The founder of the company, Phil, had a very simple idea: open up Dublin's first Taqueria. Unfortunately he was struggling to find…
The Old Convent – Clogheen
I rarely write about restaurants, as I'm more focused on making my own recipes of course, but for our birthday dinner me and my partner went up to The Old Convent in Clogheen, Tipperary, and it was just so fabulous that I simply had to share it with you all.…
Cork’s first Dessert Festival: June 26th – July 2nd
Festival Cork are people after my own heart. First they organised the hugely popular Burger Festival, then the Whiskey Festival and now 2017 is set to get another smashing festival: Cork's Dessert Festival! I was lucky enough to get to try out two venues during the Burger Festival: Electric and…
Cork’s Whiskey Festival 2017
Never a dull moment in Cork (or in Ireland in general). I've only just recovered from the Cork Burger Festival: January 30th – February 5th 2017 we had back at the end of January - beginning of February and where I enjoyed not one but two fantastic nights filled with…
Electric Cork – Fishbar
After the fantastic dinner I had at Electric's Restaurant during Cork's Burger Festival, I just had to go back to try their Fish Bar as well, after seeing a sneak peek of it already during my last visit. I had already seen the gorgeous views before, but I had no idea…
Cork Burger Festival: Electric
As you probably have read by now, Cork Burger Festival is currently running here in Cork, Ireland. Although the festival is only in it's first year now, it's looking to be a great start. One of the goals of the festival was to help put Cork on the map a bit more,…