Pampering hubby. Learning how to cook some of his favorite Irish dishes (he usually cooks for me): Soda bread.

Up until the early 1950s, many less affluent households wouldn’t have had an oven, so breads would have been cooked on a flat-iron griddle over an open fire.


Today’s soda bread (recipe dates back hundreds of years) has been made in a heavy frying pan on a stove top.

Hubby’s comment: best soda bread ever (maybe just to encourage me to make banana pancakes a few days later). My foodie is back home 🙂 (and most importantly, he got his appetite back. That’s a great sign).

Soooo good!


Good food helps speeding up the recovery (trying to follow grandads advice: don’t feed him too much, he will notice every single additional gram when he needs to learn walking again).