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✕ "This bread is particularly good the next day toasted for breakfast, with or without a fried egg and good Irish butter slathered on it." Photo: Bob Luhmann On the path to cheesy Irish wheaten bread "Was I strolling? Strolling is a little too refined for a Clydesdale like me as I clump along the path. I think of strolling as what people do who don’t sweat." A translation into Irish Gaelic of “spending the morning walking about” is “an mhaidin a chaitheamh ag fálróid thart.” Don’t ask me how to pronounce it, as I’ve found Irish Gaelic pronunciation impossible. The reason I w...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   There are times when I’m out doing my weekly grocery shopping — rushing through the supermarket as quickly as I can, avoiding crowds as much as I can — when I’ll buy something, usually on sale, with no real idea how I’m going to use it, but to have on hand for an undetermined meal later in the week. Recently, I bought a pound of packaged chorizo meat on sale with just that in mind. However, when it came to using it toward the end of my shopping week, I hit a bit of a brick wall as I wasn’t in the mood for one ...

It’s a long way to Donegal and the best roast chicken I decided to roast two chickens, which provided us with most of the main courses for our lunch and dinners over the next three or four days. The other advantage was this savings allowed us to enjoy more pints of Guinness at the local pub. About 12 years ago, not long after Lois took me in and saved a wretch like me, we made our first trip as a couple to the cottage I’d inherited in County Donegal, Ireland. That year, the dollar to euro exchange rate was a gruesome $1.65 or so. Irish petrol being consistently three times higher than her...