Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Bake / Cookery Books / Read
by Caroline · Published October 13, 2012 · Last modified February 12, 2020
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...
It was a loaf of sourdough that nearly killed me. To be more accurate, it was a piece of strong, chewy rewena paraoa, a Maori potato-based sourdough that saw me off. Is it any...
Cookery Books / Food for Friends / Read
by Caroline · Published September 26, 2012 · Last modified August 28, 2017
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...
I don’t know what gave us away. Was it the slightly flour-speckled clothes, the air of happy satiety, or the aroma of freshly baked, still warm, sourdough bread that came from our bags? Whatever...
While it hasn’t exactly been a barbeque summer, we’ve still taken every opportunity to have homemade burgers, especially since I got this recipe licked. While the burgers – be they thick, meaty beef ones, large flat...
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...
Do / Food Events / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published August 24, 2012 · Last modified September 5, 2017
I’m doing a few Irish craft beer demos over the next couple of weekends with the Theatre of Food crew. This weekend I’m off to the Dublin Tall Ships festival with my partner-in-beer, Kristin...
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...
