10 best baking with beer recipes for St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick’s Day doesn’t have to be all about drinking beer – you can always use it in the kitchen! Now I’m not necessarily saying to use all the beer in baking, but when you’re picking up...
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Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards 2016
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...
Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine 2016
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,...
Read: All in the Cooking: a basic life skill + Rice Pudding
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...
Tasting New Zealand
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...
Read: Blessed be the cheesemakers + Baked eggs and ham
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...
Irish cookbooks for Christmas 2015 + Cranberry and orange sauce
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...
Read: Irish Examiner | Why not have a ‘crafty’ beer or two this Christmas
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...