Cookbooks for Christmas 2012
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...
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The Cake Café Bake Book by Michelle Darmody – and some Lemon Slices
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...
Dark Chocolate and Orange Cookies from Sophie Kooks by Sophie Morris
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...
Marvellous Meals with Mince by Josceline Dimbleby: Meatloaf with Blue Cheese
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...
Cookies from the Ard Bia Cookbook by Aoibheann Mac Namara and Aoife Carrigy
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...
Foodtalk: Dairy with Aoibheann Mac Namara and Kieran Murphy
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...
Cook This Now by Melissa Clark: Rhubarb, Strawberry and Lemon Jam
At this time of year there are certain days – damp and cold and dreary days – that make you wonder if summer will ever come. That’s when you want some of this Rhubarb,...
Gimmie the Recipe by Shelia Kiely and Butcher’s Sausage Hotpot
With six school-going children in her house, Cork woman Shelia Kiely has plenty of experience in figuring out what food will keep a family happy. She’s not short of, as she mentions in the...