Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
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by Caroline · Published March 3, 2016 · Last modified May 12, 2021
An export stout, pickled herring, organic milk, foraged preserves, sourdough bread and an organic orchard. Just imagine being a chef presented with such an eclectic selection – and asked to create a meal using these...
Making lists. Checking them twice. Ordering books… No, I’m not stuck back in pre-Christmas hell, I’m glorying in a morning spent wandering through the website for the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine. Each and every year,...
First published on Irish Country Living. When my mother did domestic science, as it was called in the 1960s, she used the Irish version of a book called All in the Cooking. This was an...
Gone fishin’…or, at least, foraging. We’re off to NZ for a wee while, exchanging winter for summer, my Irish family for the Kiwi’s whānau and americanos for long blacks and flat whites. There might even...
First published on Irish Country Living. The cheesemakers of Ireland sure do know how to put on a hooley. The cream of the crop gathered on a dark November night at the Grainstore in...
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...
First published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 6 December, 2014. By Caroline Hennessy and Kristin Jensen. Wine gets a lot of press in the run-up to the big Christmas feast, but who says...
First published in the Nov-Dec edition of Image Interiors & Living. In 2011, with a small baby in my arms and toddler underfoot, I decided that the one thing that would make Christmas complete was a gingerbread house. A nice project to do...
