Black pudding: the new superfood
Black pudding: how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I loved you when I had to chase you down for breakfast in New Zealand, a country not generally known for ignoring...
Author: Caroline
Date Scones + Kerrygold Ballymaloe Festival of Food & Wine 2016
First published on Irish Country Living. I grew up in a house of scones. Scones – my mother’s large, golden, sultana-flecked scones – were, and are, the warm and butter-soaked answer to everything, even those...
Read: The Farmette Cookbook by Imen McDonnell + Frangipane
First published on Irish Country Living. It’s a love story. It’s a quest for home. It’s a showcase of great Irish food. It’s a love story. Once upon a time, one cold Minneapolis night, creative...
Read: New Zealand cooking + Lemon barley, roast broccoli, beetroot and clementine salad
First published on Irish Country Living. In New Zealand, catering is often on a grand scale. When we – two adults, two smallies – come to visit, we stay with the Kiwi’s parents – another...
Sunshine flavours: Spice roasted chickpeas, blood orange + buckwheat and feta
Moroccan spiced pumpkin, silverbeat, chickpea & almond; red cabbage ‘slaw with walnuts/pomegranate dressing; roast beetroot, broccoli, orange, split pea + feta. Being in New Zealand in the summer (in January!) meant that salads were an integral part...
10 best baking with beer recipes for St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick’s Day doesn’t have to be all about drinking beer – you can always use it in the kitchen! Now I’m not necessarily saying to use all the beer in baking, but when you’re picking up...
Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards 2016
An export stout, pickled herring, organic milk, foraged preserves, sourdough bread and an organic orchard. Just imagine being a chef presented with such an eclectic selection – and asked to create a meal using these...
Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine 2016
Making lists. Checking them twice. Ordering books… No, I’m not stuck back in pre-Christmas hell, I’m glorying in a morning spent wandering through the website for the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine. Each and every year,...