Read: The Echo | Lifting the lid on how to be slow cooker savvy…
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...
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...
It took a pandemic, says James Kelly of Ballymore Organics, “for people to develop an appreciation of the provenance of flour and of the synergy that it has with other quality Irish products.”
Using the slow cooker to cook a whole spiced cauliflower lets you lather your cauli liberally with some good flavours, turn the slow cooker to high and ignore it – apart from the gorgeous aroma – for three hours.
Got the lunchbox blues? I wrote a guide to school lunches for The Echo’s Back to School WoW section this week. It’s been a long, hard six months and although I know my ladies...
Harry Potter + treacle tart While it’s difficult to make out if treacle tart actually appears in the Harry Potter films – there’s a lot of magical food on those groaning tables – it’s...
The recent feature that I wrote for the Irish Examiner on cooking with kids, using films as inspiration, went through a couple of drafts when we had to change a few films. Plus, I...
An edited version of this feature first appeared in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 15 August 2020. It was such fun to research and write with my young assistants – I’ve rarely seen them...
For 2020, the Cork Long Table collective – reluctant to abandon the idea of celebrating Cork restaurants and local food altogether – put together a picnic, naming the restaurants involved but giving little more information.