Gingerbread House 2017
It’s a wrap! Gingerbread House 2017, a tradition that I started when the Small Girl was a babe in arms and Little Missy a determined two-and-a-half year old toddler, has been completed. Made from...
Category: Bake
Slow cooker apples + apple sponge
When life hands you apples, it’s time to make stewed apples, and apple-glazed pork ribs, and – most importantly – apple sponge. The girls and I went for a walk down the fields on...
Grow, Cook, Nourish by Darina Allen + Plum and Almond Puddings
The first hands-on experience I had at Ballymaloe Cookery School was in the garden. Day 1 of the 12-week course, fresh from nervously juggling cups of coffee and introductions, we were ushered into the orchard...
Chocolate bread and butter pudding for Halloween
It’s a truth universally acknowledged at this time of the year that children will a) demand that you buy barm brack and b) poke through it to find the ring, then leave it, eviscerated...
St Patrick’s Day Bake: Irish Stout Blackcurrant Cheesecake Brownies
Putting a dash of blackcurrant in a pint of stout was a tradition I was introduced to when I first started drinking. I wasn’t a stout drinker initially (it took several gigs at the...
Rosemary is for remembrance + Lemon, Poppy Seed and Rosemary Loaf
First published on Irish Country Living. Sometimes you cannot help. Words are not enough. There’s nothing that can be done. Nothing that you can do. But you can bake. My cousin’s little baby girl would...
Lamingtons for Australia Day
I first came across lamingtons in some old cookery cards that my mother picked up at a jumble sale, way, way back in the mists of time (circa late 80s, ahem). They were dipped...
Listen: Turkish Delight on The Book Show
Researching children’s books and food for the series of articles I’ve written recently in The Examiner, there’s one item that almost everyone seems to remember from their own childhood reading: the Turkish Delight that Edmund betrayed...