Eats

Spud Sunday: Social Spuds

Chocolate chips, peanut butter and potato crisps, all in one cookie – hard to resist, as, too, were the visual charms of Pinterest


Spud Sunday: A Bar Too Far

Tayto chocolate with cheese and onion crisps. Did it have to happen?


Spud Sunday: Winter Buttermilk

Introducing winter buttermilk, made by fermenting flour with cooked & raw potatoes, and used in times past in Ireland as a substitute for buttermilk when making soda bread, that most iconic of Irish foods


Spud Sunday: Smiling Spuds

Last week’s episode of Bia DĂșchais spoke of potatoes that smile easily – this potato-based lemon & poppy seed cake should make you smile easily too


Spud Sunday: A Farmer And A Gentleman

Slices of potato and celeriac stand side by side, baked and sprinkled with Glebe Brethan, one of the finest of Irish cheeses, and whose maker, the late David Tiernan, was one of the finest of men


Spud Sunday: Rose-Tinted Spuds

Mixing it up, spud-wise, with potato pinwheels, featuring mashed potato, goats cheese, toasted hazelnuts and spinach, rolled in puff pastry, sliced, baked and, quickly thereafter, eaten.


Last Of The Summer Marmalade

This is orange marmalade, just as my mother makes it


Spud Sunday: Cheese & Roasties

By now it’s a fixture in the potato calendar, the annual Daily Spud Christmas roastie round-up – I also had a few words to say in today’s Sunday Times on the subject of Irish cheese