Pork & ricotta meatballs with fresh tomato sauce
When you have one 500g pack of Lúnasa Farm minced pork (#mediasample) and five people for dinner, a batch of meatballs will be your best friend. These pork and ricotta ones, served with lemon...
Category: Food for Friends
Lunches, dinners and sweet treats for guests
The simplest (gluten free) chocolate tart
This chocolate tart takes minutes to put together, can be gluten free and – most importantly – has a gorgeous contrast between the gloriously smooth chocolate ganache filling and the textured, crunchy oatcake crust.
ALL the Christmas cookies
It started – as many things do – with one person. We all have a few of these in our lives: a dear friend and former colleague who was impossible to buy presents for....
Chocolate biscuit hazelnut birthday cake
(Or, what to make when you’ve no time to make a cake.) It was the Little Sister’s Big Bad Birthday. She had been resolutely not wanting to make a fuss about it but eventually,...
Read: Journal.ie | 6 vegetarian-friendly alternatives to the classic Sunday roast – Pot roast cauliflower with spiced butter
It’s definitely the weather for a roast – but it doesn’t always have to involve meat. I wrote this feature on Sunday roasts that feature all the flavour, but with veggies as the main...
Gathering food: Slow cooked brisket with stout, rhubarb and mustard
You know you’re properly grown up (or getting old) when there’s a cousins’ get together – with no Mammys or aunts present. One of my Malaysian cousins recently moved to Ireland and he brought...
17 ideas for (super cheap and tasty) bean feasts
On New Year’s Day, we had a bean feast. Now, while I’d like to say that this was because of the Italian tradition of eating lentils for the New Year to bring wealth and...
Feast: Slow Cooked Lamb with Cider and Pomegranate
When you wake up in the morning and there’s snow on the ground, it’s a good time to put on the oven. A few Sundays ago we had guests coming for lunch, but I...