Baked Goods
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
Louth Is My Oyster
From the Carlingford Oyster Festival to the Eastern Seaboard Bar & Grill and Brown Hound Bakery in Drogheda, it was a fine day of eating and drinking in Louth
Spud Sunday: Mixing It Up
Having received a shiny new stand mixer from the lovely Fairy Hobmother, there was nothing else for it but to make some of this yeasty potato-tomato bread
Spud Sunday: Waste Watching
The Four Pounds of Cheese Project has not only inspired me to look anew at my food waste but also lead to this savoury pie filled with cheese & cauliflower and with a potato & onion crust. That’s what I’d call a result.
Spud Sunday: Chive Talkin’
Potatoes baked with sour cream and chives – it may sound like a familiar combination, but not when they come in the form of cookies.
Spud Sunday: Rhubarb & Spuds
Rhubarb, so often cast in the dessert role, shows its savoury side here in a rhubarb and potato gratin, based on an old Polish recipe for rhubarb and potatoes
Family Matters
These ginger-not-so-snaps – cookies sweet with sugar and honey and laced with lemon – are a nod to my childhood baking, and to my Da, who ate, for better or worse, all that I made
