I love exploring Ireland (and the world!) with maps. This page contain some examples of maps I’ve hand painted or drawn before. They range from islands, peninsula, parishes and stretches of coastline, world countries and even the world. They would have been painted with acrylic or watercolour paint on paper or stretched canvas (which means […]
An eat, drink and map my way around the world triple header and today we’re doing Uruguay, First up, this tinned mince pie which I picked up in Dealz. ‘Fray Bentos The Fray Bentos food brand is associated with tinned processed meat products, originally corned beef and later meat pies. ….Created in the second half
Uruguay map of food | Frey Bentos, chivito and glass of tannat Read More »
Lunch o’clock!I’d left over rice from last night so thought I’d have another go at nasi goreng, this time with a different recipe. Then I can chalk off Indonesia as well….result! This recipe didn’t use kecap manis or shrimp paste like the last one, it used tomato ketchup and things like carrots and mushrooms…so easier to do
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Belize next in cook around the world…this was an attempt at rice and beans, Long boring story but I didn’t particularly enjoy this as it was as I’m not sure if I’m a fan of coconut milk, and the rice was cooked in some. (Coconut milk tastes a bit grime-y slime-y to me, it’s OK like
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Barbados next on cooking around the world and this is a go at curried chicken and potato roti. I had a big pack of roti opened from making my dhal yesterday so this was handy. It’s probably not quite the style they use but waste not want not and all…Roti is a general Indian name for
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Angola next cooking around the world and this is more like it, (sorry if anyone had nightmares about that trinxat yesterday, I know I did!) This is sort of an attempt at ‘Caldeirada de Cabrito’ except with lamb instead of goat as I had some lamb I needed to use up…plus Joyce’s in Knocknacarra isn’t going to have
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Recently I noticed a new Latin American street food place has opened up so an easy win on my challenge to eat my way around the world and all that. This is an arepa which is from Colombia and Venezuela, but as I’ve done them I’m saying it’s for Panama.This was filled with rice, beans
Traditional food in Panama Map | drinking coffee, eating arepas Read More »
Australia next for cooking around the world and this is supposed to be a meat pie…it takes me back to my childhood as we often had a mince pie for dinner, and this is pretty much the same thing.Tasty!If it looks a bit weird I made an error making this and put the puff pastry on
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These are some of the town maps I’ve painted over the last few years. The simplest versions are usually just black and white, mainly as I think that they have the best chance of working against a wall. I’ve stayed in a lot of Airbnb’s the last decade and always thought I’d enjoy a map
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