Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Smooth or crunchy. Sweet or savoury. Spicy or chocolate. Look at the shelves of your local speciality food shop and you can see that there’s been an explosion of artisan, Irish-made nut butters in recent years.
Almost anything that you cook yourself is going to be healthier than buying takeaway or ready made meals but learning how to cook in 2021 poses new problems. Online cooking classes are filling the gap but which ones are the best for learners? Top five online cooking classes for basic kitchen skills.
Before the asparagus season – oh, so short in Ireland but so, so sweet – disappears, it must be celebrated. Slice and pile it on top of a simple nutty-flavoured spelt pastry base that’s...
This is a Euro-pudding of a dessert, a mixture of Irish-style, alcohol-soaked trifle and Italian mascarpone-rich tiramisu.
Lockdown plus homeschooling plus working from home equals a constant demand for meals and snacks. There’s one solution: batch cooking enables you to save money and time by planning ahead and making sure that you have easy options for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
No waste. But, when you spend time – plus a lot of extra ingredients – making a slab of this chocolate weetabix slice instead of ditching a long-opened sleeve of wheat biscuits that fell down the back of the cupboard, you have to wonder about your priorities.
We celebrate the winners of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild 2021 Food Awards with a gorgeous online publication that showcases the winners and also features the many skills of Guild members.
I am proud and honoured to announce that I was elected Chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild earlier this week.
