Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Cook / Food for Friends / Work
by Caroline · Published March 30, 2016 · Last modified October 10, 2017
First published on Irish Country Living. In New Zealand, catering is often on a grand scale. When we – two adults, two smallies – come to visit, we stay with the Kiwi’s parents – another...
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...
Fresh cranberries, those gloriously red, bouncy berries – ever dropped an open pack on a tiled kitchen floor? – are now synonymous with Christmas, but it wasn’t always so. In Ireland during the 1980s, the only cranberry you might come...
Cook / Cookery Books / Read
by Caroline · Published September 10, 2015 · Last modified January 30, 2019
Cookbooks? I have a few. Around 700 or 800 on the bookshelves in the sitting room. About 50 piled high on the windowsill next to the kitchen table. And there’s another 30 or so...
IFWG / Life / Lovely Lunches / Work
by Caroline · Published September 1, 2015 · Last modified August 18, 2022
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...
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...
Food for Friends / Lovely Lunches
by Caroline · Published May 1, 2015 · Last modified September 24, 2021
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...
You might have realised, over the years, that I’m a fan of cheesy Valentines: 2012 Something cheesy for Valentine’s Day 2008 The easiest Valentine’s Day dinner: Baked Vacherin Mont d’Or 2007 Valentine’s Night – delayed: Simple Irish...
