Read: Irish Examiner | Slow cook to save energy and time
Reduce energy use, come home to a cooked meal: Is a slow-cooker the dream appliance? First published in the Irish Examiner on 25 November 2022.
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Read: The Echo | Lifting the lid on how to be slow cooker savvy…
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...
Slow cooker whole spiced cauliflower
Using the slow cooker to cook a whole spiced cauliflower lets you lather your cauli liberally with some good flavours, turn the slow cooker to high and ignore it – apart from the gorgeous aroma – for three hours.
Gathering food: Slow cooked brisket with stout, rhubarb and mustard
You know you’re properly grown up (or getting old) when there’s a cousins’ get together – with no Mammys or aunts present. One of my Malaysian cousins recently moved to Ireland and he brought...
17 ideas for (super cheap and tasty) bean feasts
On New Year’s Day, we had a bean feast. Now, while I’d like to say that this was because of the Italian tradition of eating lentils for the New Year to bring wealth and...
TheJournal.ie: ‘This girl’s best friend is her slow cooker’
From leftover lunches, to slow cooker feasts, snacks for smallies, girls with their greens and the book that changed everything: when Amy Mulvaney from TheJournal.ie asked me to share five recent Instagram photos and the stories...
Slow cooker apples + apple sponge
When life hands you apples, it’s time to make stewed apples, and apple-glazed pork ribs, and – most importantly – apple sponge. The girls and I went for a walk down the fields on...
Slow cooker rice pudding
It’s the start of October and the temperature has plummeted. The girls come home from school like ravening wolves, their appetites sharpened by the cold, ready to eat through each other – and me...