bigfoodiemama

My followers will remember the devastation I experienced last year when I had to miss the Taste of Dublin, due to one of the boys being sick. This year I prayed to the wellness fairy and she delivered ! On Friday evening BMM, the FA, the Seamstress, the Mad One and yours truly headed off in the Seamstresses amazing Skoda Superb for an evening of tasting, sipping, tasting some more, drinking...you get my drift. A sunny Iveagh Gardens beckoned us and we headed straight for the Jacobs Creek stand intending to use our relationship with the Ambassadrice to secure free bubbly. This is when it happened. A member of the sales team overhearing the chat, asked if I was the 25 year old Ambassadrice's MOTHER !The Mad One thought this was just hilarious, so I shot back my first glass with haste and proceeded quickly to my second. It was a great evening, aided by the truly amazing 80's tribute band " Spring Break" (http://springbreak80s.com) . I stuck to Thai/Malaysian/Indian fayre...

So last night the Caribbean Queen had the generosity to host ( in her MTV cribs style house) a baby shower for the Mad One. A great gang of women gathered, the Stunner, Maxi, Stage School Mum, the Culchie Dub, Andie Mc Dowell, BMM, the Mad Ones MIL and the Caribbean Queen Mother. The Mad Ones daughter got to come along to the girls evening much to her delight and designed a special baby shower card, ie. a picture of her mother in the shower with her head poking above the door and her bump poking out the side !She had announced at school earlier that she was going to a baby shower, which her friends took to mean that her mother was going to give birth that evening in the Caribbean Queens bathroom....thankfully this was not the case. The food was a delight, warm salsa or crab dip, guacamole, sour cream or a heavenly combination of roasted figs, tossed in balsamic vinegar and topped with crumbled goats cheese ! We overdid it a bit on the starters but still managed to devour the stuffed br...