Spelt pastry galette with mushrooms, asparagus & goat cheese
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...
Author: Caroline
Trifle-misu
This is a Euro-pudding of a dessert, a mixture of Irish-style, alcohol-soaked trifle and Italian mascarpone-rich tiramisu.
Read: Irish Examiner | How batch cooking can save money & time
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.
Chocolate weetabix slice
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.
Butter, beef & spuds: IFWG Food Awards 2021
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.
Irish Food Writers’ Guild
I am proud and honoured to announce that I was elected Chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild earlier this week.
Kids in the kitchen
Kitchen inspiration for kids off school, including Pippi Longstocking’s Pepparkakor, roasted eggs and potatoes from The Secret Garden, chocolatl from Northern Lights, Bruce Bogtrotter’s Chocolate Cake and pork dumplings inspired by Mulan.
Read: Irish Examiner | 6 of the best work-from-home breakfast ideas
First published in the Irish Examiner on 17 February 2021. A muesli bar and coffee, eaten on the move. A quick bowl of cornflakes. A banana tucked into a handbag. Or breakfast in the...