Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Bake / Cookery Books / Read
by Caroline · Published October 13, 2012 · Last modified February 12, 2020
If there’s one thing that Sophie Morris should be able to do well, it’s cookies. She’s built a successful business on a brilliantly simple product and Kooky Dough is exactly what it says: a roll...
Cookery Books / Food for Friends / Read
by Caroline · Published September 26, 2012 · Last modified August 28, 2017
Minced meat used only come in one colour. It was a dun grey-brown, boiled in water, speckled with some slippery onion pieces and large lumps of carrot. Once it was cooked through – you’d be...
Ard Bia at Nimmo’s is a small grey stone building, settled stolidly by Galway’s Spanish Arch. So far, so unprepossessing. But step inside that jaunty red door and you arrive in a rambling, welcoming...
Reading the stylish and useful Ard Bia Cookbook reminded me of meeting Aoibheann Mac Namara back in 2008. I was interviewing her for the Foodtalk series of documentaries for Newstalk: her son Oni – the book...
At this time of year there are certain days – damp and cold and dreary days – that make you wonder if summer will ever come. That’s when you want some of this Rhubarb,...
With six school-going children in her house, Cork woman Shelia Kiely has plenty of experience in figuring out what food will keep a family happy. She’s not short of, as she mentions in the...
Adventurous, curious and passionate about food, Allegra McEvedy comes across as someone who would be a fantastic travelling companion. Apart from the fact that, due to her obsession with collecting knives, she must spend...
Cook / Cookery Books / Read
by Caroline · Published February 15, 2012 · Last modified January 30, 2019
Catherine’s Family Kitchen landed in my own kitchen at a rather busy time. What with painting the newly renovated cottage, moving into it and the arrival of the Small Girl, this review got a...
