Butter Boy by Paul Flynn
Butter Boy is a most excellent name for a cookbook, and the contents more than live up to the billing. Paul Flynn’s fifth book, a collection of three years of his Irish Times columns,...
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Blasta Books #1: Tacos by Lily Ramirez-Foran
Lily’s debut cookbook, Tacos, is the first of Kristin’s Blasta Books to be published, a brightly coloured, beautifully illustrated cookbook that’s small in size only – it comes with high ambitions for both author and publisher.
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.
Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat – and how to live
Twenty years ago Nigella Lawson‘s How to Eat was published. A year later, myself and both my housemates bought copies. All three of us were in our early twenties, just finished/finishing college, not long...
Meetings with Mrs Allen: Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe House 1924 – 2018
Back in 2001, I was the editor of a website called Tasty. We were part of ACE – Arts, Culture, Entertainment – a new, energetic section of RTÉ Online. The overall ACE (in more ways...
Cookbooks for Christmas 2017
I never can resist a new cookbook. I love the thrill of cracking the spine so that I can lay it out on the table to read over breakfast. I can let the morning...
Grow, Cook, Nourish by Darina Allen + Plum and Almond Puddings
The first hands-on experience I had at Ballymaloe Cookery School was in the garden. Day 1 of the 12-week course, fresh from nervously juggling cups of coffee and introductions, we were ushered into the orchard...
Read: Fishwives – Barley, Asparagus and Smoked Trout Salad
First published on Irish Country Living. Mag Kirwan is a force of nature. She’s the woman behind Goatsbridge Trout Farm in Co Kilkenny, which produces the first class fresh, smoked and tinned trout –...