Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Smooth or crunchy. Sweet or savoury. Spicy or chocolate. Look at the shelves of your local speciality food shop and you can see that there’s been an explosion of artisan, Irish-made nut butters in recent years.
Almost anything that you cook yourself is going to be healthier than buying takeaway or ready made meals but learning how to cook in 2021 poses new problems. Online cooking classes are filling the gap but which ones are the best for learners? Top five online cooking classes for basic kitchen skills.
Lockdown plus homeschooling plus working from home equals a constant demand for meals and snacks. There’s one solution: batch cooking enables you to save money and time by planning ahead and making sure that you have easy options for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
We celebrate the winners of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild 2021 Food Awards with a gorgeous online publication that showcases the winners and also features the many skills of Guild members.
First published in the Irish Examiner on 17 February 2021. A muesli bar and coffee, eaten on the move. A quick bowl of cornflakes. A banana tucked into a handbag. Or breakfast in the...
Gadgets, I’ve had a few. But then again, too many to mention… Talking to PJ Coogan on 96FM’s Opinion Line about kitchen gadgets this morning made me look around my own kitchen and see...
First published in The Echo on 8 December 2020. Let’s get one thing out of the way: there’s no such thing as THE perfect Christmas dinner, but there are many little elements that can...
First published in The Echo on 5 November 2020. There’s a newly minted nip in the air and the whole idea of tights, warm coats and wooly cardigans no longer seems far fetched. Nor...
