bigfoodiemama

One year ago on Easter Saturday I was admitted to hospital with pneumonia and I was septic......NOT funny ! At exactly this time I was heading to Doc On Call and was assessed by a very hot young doctor, who I thought was a bit thick when he suggested I go to the Emergency Department. Turns out he wasn't that thick...lesson 1. Never judge a book by it's cover...and there's nothing like a hot doctor ! ( No, PH I am not referring to you !) The following 8 weeks of recovery made me realise, that in the scheme of things, all that matters is health, family and love.Lesson 2. Lesson 3. No one is so important that the world will stop if they climb off for a while...not even Barrack Obama....boy I wish I had been the one he tangoed with ... I decided ,during my recuperation, that the time had come to devote more attention to myself, the person I was inclined to ignore in the midst of helping everyone else out and making sure everything got done, and to my absolute horror and ama...

OMG he is on his way to Ireland. Barack Obama will come here the same month as my birthday ( May) . He will visit Moneygall, where his great great great grandfather ( a shoemaker called Kearney) is from. In the 2006 census Moneygall had a church,5 shops, a post office, a garda station and two pubs. It now only has one pub so guess which bar I am planning on sitting in for most of the month of May !The population of Moneygall was 298 in 2006 but I am guessing will have risen considerably since and is about to quadruple. It is just over the Tipperary border in Offaly , so just up the way from Borrisokane, where I happen to have some very dear friends ....I may be calling !I am thinking about just sending him a wee note asking if he'd like to come round for some lemon cake and decaf tea, but I would happily stuff a bird for Barack. I'd pull off a leg for him, but he looks like a thigh man to me........ooooooh bring it on !

I really want to have dinner with Barack and Michelle ! I am happy for them to come to mine, but would equally, be only too delighted to travel over to their place. I could bring dessert, or a starter and would of course bring a bottle. Which version of the previous three items would I bring though ? I suppose I should start withe the starter. For that I think I would go for Jamie Oliver's Christmas Salad, with clementines,prosciutto, rocket, mozzarella and a citrus dressing ( ie. fruit,meat, dairy and veg....very balanced !)It would travel well and I could just put it together in the White House Kitchen on Michelle's choice of nice plate ( seeing as they have a whole room devoted to them ). If she asks me to bring dessert, needless to day I will try to satisfy both myself and Michelle and the boys ie. Barack and GASP. GASP will want either Pavlova or Apple Crumble and I think I will go for the latter, as I doubt they ever get a proper " stick to your ribs" pudding. I...