Ballymaloe Cookery School Blog Index
Úna-Minh Kavanagh Below is the index for all of my posts while I did the 12-week certificate course in Ballymaloe back in 2014, feel free to click through to each day. In…
Ballymaloe Cookery School
Things you need to know before doing the 12 week course at Ballymaloe Cookery School
After spending 83 days at Ballymaloe Cookery School, I’ve taken in a phenomenal amount of information and have created things that I never imagined I could do. On reflection, there…
Ballymaloe Day 82: The final blogpost
Well, it’s over, that’s it, c’est fini. 83 posts altogether including day zero – it’s been a roller coaster of a ride. It’s hard to describe how I’m feeling about…
Ballymaloe Day 81: The Studious Adventures of Úna-Minh Kavanagh
Time flies when you get towards the end of an adventure. Today I had a glorious lie-in, where my dreams weren’t filled with any sort of worry and my mind…
Ballymaloe Day 80: Channeling my inner Florrie!
To say I’m exhausted is an understatement – I feel like the blood has been drained from my body and I’m left with a hollow shell of a person. Today…
Ballymaloe Day 79: “There once was a man that ate a motorcar…”
Another uneasy night in bed, I woke up barely before demo and hopped over to the cookery school as quickly as I could. On the menu for lunch today was…
Ballymaloe Day 78: “That absolute slap-across-the-face flavour”
The alarm went off at 7.30am, but I didn’t haul myself out of bed until 8am… After a turbulent night’s sleep, I eventually managed to drag myself out into humanity…
Ballymaloe Day 77: Just one day left in the kitchen…
With only five hours of sleep last night, I woke up with a cranky feeling. Wandering around at 8am to unlock our bedroom door I woozily staggered back to bed…
Ballymaloe Day 76: Cough and splutter
Carrageen moss as a drink would definitely not be one of my beverages of choice. Unable to sleep until 3am and then rising at 8am, my body was floating in…
Ballymaloe Day 75: A day in the leaba
The last thing you want to happen in cookery school is to be sick on one of the final cooking days… Over the past few days, I’ve felt another wave…