Gingerbread House 2020
Everything changes. In 2020, the entire world changed. But some things remain the same. At the start of December every year, when we drag the battered old suitcase of Christmas decorations from under the...
Author: Caroline
Read: The Echo | Christmas side dishes
First published in The Echo on 8 December 2020. Let’s get one thing out of the way: there’s no such thing as THE perfect Christmas dinner, but there are many little elements that can...
Read: The Echo | Lifting the lid on how to be slow cooker savvy…
First published in The Echo on 5 November 2020. There’s a newly minted nip in the air and the whole idea of tights, warm coats and wooly cardigans no longer seems far fetched. Nor...
Read: Irish Foodie | Irish craft millers
It took a pandemic, says James Kelly of Ballymore Organics, “for people to develop an appreciation of the provenance of flour and of the synergy that it has with other quality Irish products.”
Slow cooker whole spiced cauliflower
Using the slow cooker to cook a whole spiced cauliflower lets you lather your cauli liberally with some good flavours, turn the slow cooker to high and ignore it – apart from the gorgeous aroma – for three hours.
Read: The Echo | A guide to school lunches
Got the lunchbox blues? I wrote a guide to school lunches for The Echo’s Back to School WoW section this week. It’s been a long, hard six months and although I know my ladies...
Movie food: Harry Potter + treacle tart
Harry Potter + treacle tart While it’s difficult to make out if treacle tart actually appears in the Harry Potter films – there’s a lot of magical food on those groaning tables – it’s...
Movie food: Beauty and the Beast + cheese soufflé
The recent feature that I wrote for the Irish Examiner on cooking with kids, using films as inspiration, went through a couple of drafts when we had to change a few films. Plus, I...