Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
When I lived in New Zealand, I was exposed to lots of unfamiliar ingredients and food terms. Things like kumera and feijoa were unknown, Egg and Bacon Pie and Ginger Crunch new taste sensations,...
It’s the time of year when every woodland walk is done with a nose cocked for the scent of wild garlic. When living in Dublin, the almost-rank smell of the late-season blooms was an...
When all the baking and cooking and running around is done, finding a stack of cookbooks under the tree is one of my favourite things about Christmas. It’s also one of the few times of the...
Michelle Darmody’s idea of a café is simple: there’s good coffee, tempting baking cooling on the counter and an uncomplicated menu using good quality Irish ingredients. The crockery is mismatched, there are piles of...
If there’s one thing that Sophie Morris should be able to do well, it’s cookies. She’s built a successful business on a brilliantly simple product and Kooky Dough is exactly what it says: a roll...
Minced meat used only come in one colour. It was a dun grey-brown, boiled in water, speckled with some slippery onion pieces and large lumps of carrot. Once it was cooked through – you’d be...
Ard Bia at Nimmo’s is a small grey stone building, settled stolidly by Galway’s Spanish Arch. So far, so unprepossessing. But step inside that jaunty red door and you arrive in a rambling, welcoming...
Reading the stylish and useful Ard Bia Cookbook reminded me of meeting Aoibheann Mac Namara back in 2008. I was interviewing her for the Foodtalk series of documentaries for Newstalk: her son Oni – the book...
