Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
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.
Kitchen inspiration for kids off school, including Pippi Longstocking’s Pepparkakor, roasted eggs and potatoes from The Secret Garden, chocolatl from Northern Lights, Bruce Bogtrotter’s Chocolate Cake and pork dumplings inspired by Mulan.
First published in the Irish Examiner on 17 February 2021. A muesli bar and coffee, eaten on the move. A quick bowl of cornflakes. A banana tucked into a handbag. Or breakfast in the...
First published in The Echo on 8 December 2020. Let’s get one thing out of the way: there’s no such thing as THE perfect Christmas dinner, but there are many little elements that can...
First published in The Echo on 5 November 2020. There’s a newly minted nip in the air and the whole idea of tights, warm coats and wooly cardigans no longer seems far fetched. Nor...
Got the lunchbox blues? I wrote a guide to school lunches for The Echo’s Back to School WoW section this week. It’s been a long, hard six months and although I know my ladies...
Harry Potter + treacle tart While it’s difficult to make out if treacle tart actually appears in the Harry Potter films – there’s a lot of magical food on those groaning tables – it’s...
The recent feature that I wrote for the Irish Examiner on cooking with kids, using films as inspiration, went through a couple of drafts when we had to change a few films. Plus, I...
