Garden gluts: Sausagemeat, Courgette and Apple Plait
Every year we plant one – one – courgette plant. Every year we still manage to have a glut. I’ve been getting more strict with these summer squash, always trying to pick them when...
Category: Food for Friends
Epic Chocolate, Porter and Potato Cake and a story of spuds
I didn’t eat potatoes until I was 30. Not voluntarily at least. Like almost every other Irish child I was weaned on milk-and-butter-rich pandy. But it wasn’t too long before I began to assert...
Cooking dried beans from scratch and Moroccan Lamb, Chickpea and Lentil Harira
When we lived in New Zealand, I didn’t have very much money. After a close encounter with an Auckland courier truck and the consequent amnesia/fractured skull/broken collarbone it took a while to get my brain...
No (horse)meat: Spinach and Ricotta Balls with Homemade Oven Fries
The horse-as-beef story broke when we were in New Zealand. As I skimmed through news from home, sitting in the sunshine, it all seemed very far away and, probably, the kind of thing that...
Wild Food by Biddy White Lennon & Evan Doyle: Wild Garlic, Leek and Potato Bake
It’s the time of year when every woodland walk is done with a nose cocked for the scent of wild garlic. When living in Dublin, the almost-rank smell of the late-season blooms was an...
Eating in New Zealand: Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Spicy Rub
Eating is a serious business for my New Zealand family. When 14 adults and six children decamp for a week to a not-exactly-close-to-a-supermarket beach house – known as a bach – it takes on...
Marvellous Meals with Mince by Josceline Dimbleby: Meatloaf with Blue Cheese
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...
Homemade burger buns
While it hasn’t exactly been a barbeque summer, we’ve still taken every opportunity to have homemade burgers, especially since I got this recipe licked. While the burgers – be they thick, meaty beef ones, large flat...