Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
There are other of getting your chocolate fix without compromising a healthy diet. Drinking it, in the form of cacao tea or a cacao beverage, ticks lots of great dietary boxes while still letting you enjoy the familiar flavour of really good chocolate.
Get inspired in the kitchen with vegetarian and vegan recipes from Food For Today, the new cookbook from Lettercollum Kitchen Project’s Karen Austin.
An edited version of this feature was first published in the Irish Examiner on 15 September 2021. As the weather gets colder, our thoughts turn towards hearty meals but does comfort food need to...
Brussels sprouts: the mini cabbage that (almost) everyone loves to hate. Grown in Ireland and available everywhere at this time of the year, why is the world split into sprout lovers and haters?
Any opportunity to be together with friends and colleagues is special but after 18 long months of Zoom and emails and WhatsApp, last night’s Irish Food Writing Awards was a much anticipated gathering.
Half way through the morning, as tomato fondue bubbled on the cooker, chocolate egg nests set in a cooler part of the worktop and 11-year-old Little Missy shaped bunny pancakes on a hot frying pan, it hit me: online cooking classes with kids really do work.
Where to find the best Irish pumpkins, how to make pumpkin purée and a recipe for homemade pumpkin spice.
First published in the Irish Examiner on 24 June. A new word for omnivore? Someone who’s not a picky eater? When you throw the word flexitarian out there, you get some interesting reactions. It’s...
