Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards 2019
Raw milk cheese from Counties Down and Cork. A goat farm in Antrim. Organic spelt berries grown in Louth. Rare apple ice wine made from Cork apples. A Dublin-based coffee organisation. A Cork-based charity...
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Irish Food Bloggers Association: 2010 – 2015
Back in 2010, Kristin Jensen of Edible Ireland and I started working together to set up the Irish Food Bloggers Association. It was a time when the world of food blogging in Ireland was...
Best cake sale recipe: chocolate fudge cupcakes
With two girls attending the local primary school, requests for baking turn up at regular intervals during the year: fundraising cake sales, grandparents’ day gatherings, coffee mornings for the new junior infants intakes. While...
17 ideas for (super cheap and tasty) bean feasts
On New Year’s Day, we had a bean feast. Now, while I’d like to say that this was because of the Italian tradition of eating lentils for the New Year to bring wealth and...
Gingerbread House 2018
It takes a family to build a gingerbread house. The Little Sister has to arrive unexpectedly from New Zealand to surprise a pair of small girls, sticking around to help them push the gingerbread...
TheJournal.ie: ‘This girl’s best friend is her slow cooker’
From leftover lunches, to slow cooker feasts, snacks for smallies, girls with their greens and the book that changed everything: when Amy Mulvaney from TheJournal.ie asked me to share five recent Instagram photos and the stories...
Porter Cake on TG4’s Blasta
History has always been tied up with what we eat. From individual Proustian dishes that take us down personal memory lanes to the collective impact that a food – or a famine – can...
Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat – and how to live
Twenty years ago Nigella Lawson‘s How to Eat was published. A year later, myself and both my housemates bought copies. All three of us were in our early twenties, just finished/finishing college, not long...