Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Five years. Five years of learning and cooking and growing and inspiration and bringing the best of the world’s food writers to East Cork. Five years of the Ballymaloe LitFest. That’s where I’ve been moved by René...
That brief spurt of sunshine earlier in the week had us all digging out the shorts and flip flops and lighter recipes for warmer times. The girls thought that it was summer. They plotted to have...
Putting a dash of blackcurrant in a pint of stout was a tradition I was introduced to when I first started drinking. I wasn’t a stout drinker initially (it took several gigs at the...
If you’re interested in storytelling around brand building, particularly if you work in the food industry, Taste Cork is holding a free half day conference in Kinsale tomorrow from 9am. It’s part of Local...
Your Instagram feed may be – as mine frequently is – stuffed with beautiful, decadent looking and, occasionally, gloriously outlandish pictures of food. But what comes first: the look or the taste? From Australian Freakshakes...
Bake / Food for Friends / Print
by Caroline · Published February 11, 2017 · Last modified October 10, 2017
First published on Irish Country Living. Sometimes you cannot help. Words are not enough. There’s nothing that can be done. Nothing that you can do. But you can bake. My cousin’s little baby girl would...
I first came across lamingtons in some old cookery cards that my mother picked up at a jumble sale, way, way back in the mists of time (circa late 80s, ahem). They were dipped...
“I think I was aware, when I started to make cheese, that magic had happened. I’d be brushing the floor in the kitchen at night, when the children were in bed, daydreaming about how...
