Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
This Christmas tart is a keeper. Just close your eyes and imagine: a base of crisp, short pastry, just enough alcoholic mincemeat to make you think Christmas, a layer of moist, almondy frangipane, all...
Part one of my Irish food gifts article for The Irish Times is here or, if you have a subscription, you can read the entire published version here. I’m always looking for small bits and...
If we all spend €4 more a week on Irish products we can create 6,000 more jobs. But who defines what an Irish product is? While you can spend a lot of time checking...
Take a venue – it doesn’t have to be a restaurant, but decent kitchens make a difference – a limited time span and some nomadic chefs. What have you got? A pop-up-restaurant-tastic November with...
Michelle Darmody’s idea of a café is simple: there’s good coffee, tempting baking cooling on the counter and an uncomplicated menu using good quality Irish ingredients. The crockery is mismatched, there are piles of...
If you grow your own fruit and veg, you can turn your garden gluts into winter treats. Caroline Hennessy has some useful tips and a few straightforward recipes for pickles and chutneys on EveryMonday.ie.
Bake / Food Events / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published October 25, 2012 · Last modified December 1, 2020
Standing on a wobbly kitchen chair to reach the mixing bowl, apron wrapped twice round my middle and my tongue taking a snatched opportunity to explore the rough texture of a well-used wooden spoon: food memories....
Bake / Cookery Books / Read
by Caroline · Published October 13, 2012 · Last modified February 12, 2020
If there’s one thing that Sophie Morris should be able to do well, it’s cookies. She’s built a successful business on a brilliantly simple product and Kooky Dough is exactly what it says: a roll...
