Eats

Spud Sunday: A Resolutionary Soup

A simple white winter vegetable soup with potatoes, celeriac, cauliflower and roasted garlic – just the recipe for this time of year


Danish Cookies, Irish Butter

Butter cookies, a recipe made with Kerrygold Irish butter and inspired by the Danish butter cookies of Christmas past


Have Your Cake And Tax It

It was an evening of positivity at the Bord Bia Food and Drink Industry Awards, though, with talk later of a VAT hike for certain bakery products, the realities of operating a food business were never far away


Spud Sunday: The Why Of Cookbooks

In which I give a recipe for potato, cheese & mushroom pie from the new Pieminister cookbook a whirl, but not without making a few changes and having a few things to say on the subject of cookbooks first


Spud Sunday: Simple Spuds

Bay leaves, a really simple but very worthwhile addition to roast potatoes (& baked potatoes too, for that matter)


Spud Sunday: Food, The West Cork Way

As part of the new West Cork Food initiative, I got to fillet & smoke fish with the fabulous Sally Barnes; back at home, I made this potato and lentil stew to go with it


Spud Sunday: Meet The Peppers

Roasted potatoes with a bit of middle eastern flavour, adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipe for batata harra


Spud Sunday: Those Other Potatoes

Sweet potatoes finally get a look in on The Daily Spud, thanks to a lime-seasoned potato and sweet potato mash, as spotted in Catherine Fulvio’s new book, Catherine’s Family Kitchen