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...
Category: Bake
Sugar and spice and all things nice
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.
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...
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...
Rhubarb & strawberry cobbler
It feels as if there’s been a lot more sweet things around the cottage lately. This might be due to a combination of the girls baking more – thanks to cookbook gifts from the...
Double Chocolate Cider Brownies
When times are strange, we all need brownies. My double chocolate porter brownies date back to the earliest days of Eight Degrees in 2011. It was a well road tested recipe – I still...
Covid chooks, cake and catastrophising: a month of our new normal
At the start I was frozen, pinned to the moment by that first big announcement about the schools closing. I was in work, listening online to Leo broadcasting live from Washington (“Can I speak...