Read: The Echo | Back to school: think outside the lunchbox
Think outside the lunchbox! Ideas and recipes for back to school breakfasts, lunches and after school snacks.
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We had guests. That’s my excuse. A schoolfriend, her husband and their three kids came to visit, parking up a campervan outside the house and taking me offline for 24 hours. There was baking...
Read: Irish Examiner | How to cook like a camper
Cooking in a camper van, on a camping stove or barbecue can be a challenge, but it’s also a lot of fun. Take inspiration from Camping Soul Food, a smart collection of easy recipes that can be cooked anywhere with limited equipment and fridge space.
Read: Irish Examiner | Spreading the love for nuts
Smooth or crunchy. Sweet or savoury. Spicy or chocolate. Look at the shelves of your local speciality food shop and you can see that there’s been an explosion of artisan, Irish-made nut butters in recent years.
Read: Irish Examiner | Online cooking classes for basic cooking skills
Almost anything that you cook yourself is going to be healthier than buying takeaway or ready made meals but learning how to cook in 2021 poses new problems. Online cooking classes are filling the gap but which ones are the best for learners? Top five online cooking classes for basic kitchen skills.
Spelt pastry galette with mushrooms, asparagus & goat cheese
Before the asparagus season – oh, so short in Ireland but so, so sweet – disappears, it must be celebrated. Slice and pile it on top of a simple nutty-flavoured spelt pastry base that’s...
Trifle-misu
This is a Euro-pudding of a dessert, a mixture of Irish-style, alcohol-soaked trifle and Italian mascarpone-rich tiramisu.
Read: Irish Examiner | How batch cooking can save money & time
Lockdown plus homeschooling plus working from home equals a constant demand for meals and snacks. There’s one solution: batch cooking enables you to save money and time by planning ahead and making sure that you have easy options for breakfast, lunch and dinner.