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: Lovely Lunches
Easy lunch options, for home and work, with a few meals on the move
Sunshine flavours: Spice roasted chickpeas, blood orange + buckwheat and feta
Moroccan spiced pumpkin, silverbeat, chickpea & almond; red cabbage ‘slaw with walnuts/pomegranate dressing; roast beetroot, broccoli, orange, split pea + feta. Being in New Zealand in the summer (in January!) meant that salads were an integral part...
What’s in your lunchbox? Pumpkin and feta tortilla!
My mum’s sultana scones, leftover bacon & kidney pie, made-by-me sticky orange and cinnamon scrolls. I’d be the first to admit that the things I took to school for lunch weren’t necessarily: a) the...
Read: Salad dressings & homemade whole egg mayonnaise in Irish Country Living
While there may not have been very much sunshine lately, it’s always salad weather around at the cottage. I’m talking big platters of roasted vegetables tossed with grains like buckwheat and barley, bowls of...
Sunday lunch: Slow Cooked Beef with Irish Cider
You know that sinking feeling when you realise you’ve had something in your freezer for, ooh, way too long? We all have them. Large blocks of unidentifiable meat, sitting ominously in the corner. Ours...
Sunshine salad: Roast Vegetable, Blood Orange, Pomegranate, Bulgur
Everybody needs a little sunshine in their lives, especially at the thin end of January, facing into the dreary bleakness that is February. It’s damp and cold and wet outside; I need a little...
Red Cabbage Salad with Cranberries, Pecans and Maple Mustard Dressing
I don’t do detox. I savour my food – hot chocolate on a weary afternoon, luscious cheesy dinners and mood-enhancing spiced morning toast – all too well. But I also love salads, particularly one that you can make and keep in the fridge to eat alongside all the other good things.
Devilled Eggs for summer eating
We were at a pre-wedding family get together in New Zealand some years ago, right before one of the Husband’s sisters got married – and I was checking out the buffet table. It was the...