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Ireland Blog

Sharing my 2020 trip to Ireland for culinary school. Follow along, it's going to be a ball!

Meeting new (flour-y) friends

February 9, 2020

overhead photo of irish scone made with spelt flour

I’ve finally found my peeps! Gotta love the internet, it’s like match.com only it would be called flour.com in my case, ha! I met a lovely couple over the weekend who farm and mill real Irish spelt flour. Talk about geeking out! But this sort of thing makes me so happy, meeting people passionate about…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Ireland Blog Tagged With: flour-y friends, irish butter, irish spelt flour, sonny sourdough, spelt flour, sunrise flour mill

Getting into the routine

January 28, 2020

photo of Sheila and Shelagh

Holy cow, I’m behind on this whole blogging situation! I can’t believe it’s been three+ weeks in school already. The days fly by, and the evenings go even quicker! Plus, I’m still finishing up some design projects from before I left. I try to do as much exploring around as I possibly can when opportunities…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Ireland Blog Tagged With: Dublin cookery school, greystones bray walk, irish cookery school, living in ireland

Baptism by Fire(s)!

January 14, 2020

What a week! Monday morning was pissing (as described by a new classmate) rain! The wind was a gale. But since I had taken a few test walks to the school over the weekend, things were already starting to look more familiar and I was able to get there pretty quickly (it’s about a half-hour…

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The first week, well most of it…

January 8, 2020

photo of a pint of Guinness in front of the fire

I’ve arrived! I can’t believe a week ago today I left on a long and bumpy flight with a terrifying landing but I made it. I arrived Thursday morning in Dublin. Immigration and customs were a breeze. The immigration woman said had I brought her some food (she knew I was going to cooking school)…

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