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As many of you know, we're taking two weeks off from jobs and business to recharge our batteries and catch up with our sleep. We chose our favourite place in Ireland: West Cork. We've been visiting the West Cork area for quite a few years, but it was until last year that we trully did a foodie tour of the place. It was absolutely fabulous as with the help of the local twitterati, we found foodie spots everywhere! We had amazing food, met with other food bloggers, visited food producers, went to country fairs and foodie events and we loved every minute of it. We found the trip deeply invigorating and inspirational, so this year, we came with a similar vibe.
We rented one of the many holiday cottages around the Glengarriff area. The house has a small but functional kitchen with an electric hob, an oven with grill, a fridge and a microwave. This allows us to go food hunting during the day and come to the cottage to cook a meal if we feel like it. It's the perfect arrangement, above all as we are only about 4 minute drive from Manning's Emporium, which is one of my favourite food shops in Ireland. I love the friendly service, the knowledgable staff and their fabulous cheese & cured meat counter; truly heavenly.
A Mexican Cook in Ireland has moved! I've been meaning to make the move for quite a while, but between the full-time job and the business, there has been very limited time and money to get anything else done. The blog suffered a few minor changes and I grew impatient with the platform I was using and the limitations it offered. The blog has been the home for my recipes and ramblings for nearly three and a half years and despite a couple of attempts on my part to pimp it up with the help of friends, I always came back to the familiarly boring chilies theme, mostly terrified that I would lose all the information if something went wrong.
I have changed and learnt so much in the last three and a half years and I wanted to pour all this in the blog, but with close to 200 recipes and posts and over 600 photographs, the tasks was scaringly big for me and for a while it felt like it was too big to tackle; still I felt the blog and its limitations were dragging me down, they were preventing me to grow and evolve and to showcase Mexican Food and my life in Ireland at its best. So about 4 months ago, we finally bit the bullet and started looking for a company who would help us do it. We were adamant we wanted an Irish company and with the tremendous help of Irish Twitter we found our perfect match.
