fake-away

It’s a miracle.

9 years ago

The fakeaway has become a godsend for the pre-Christmas spending cull.  We used to treat ourselves to a takeaway practically every weekend which, the way we eat, was becoming a major financial drain. With seven Saturdays to go before the big C (thank you radio presenter for lobbing that information bomb into my otherwise peaceful […]

9 years ago

Recipes For A Nervous Breakdown a highly original cookery debut cum memoir from HerFamily.ie’s own, Sophie White is in shops now or available to order online. All week we will be running recipes from the book to give regular readers of Sophie’s brilliant HerFamily.ie columns a flavour of Recipes For A Nervous Breakdown. I was pretty skeptical […]

10 years ago

Is butter chicken your fave item on the Indian takeaway menu? For me, the answer is a resounding YES! It’s got butter in the title, and anything with butter in the title is okay by me. Butter, Butterscotch, butternut squash, butter, buttered toast. I just really love butter. Unfortunately with butter, comes butter-gut which is […]

12 years ago

So when two people become a couple, certain compromises have to be made. When The Man and I became legally bound there were certain things that had to go, and one thing was his abiding love of the Chipper, more specifically The Snackbox. None of my things had to go as I was in charge […]

12 years ago

It’s that time of the week when we lose all will to be healthy. It’s not Friday; it’s “Eat my face off Food-day”. The only thing that can possibly save me from an all-out weekend eat-a-thon is if I come up with something that’s as tasty as a takeaway without the calorie overkill. Enter the […]

12 years ago