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Killer Cheeses

How’s about an Irish cheese plate for Paddy’s Day? Or some raclette, using St. Gall cheese from Fermoy? All as inspired by a recent Slow Food Ireland raw milk cheese tasting.


Spud Sunday: No Spud Is An Island

You supply the salmon and cream cheese, I’ll supply the potatoes and together we’ll have some chowder.


Spud Sunday: Chef du Cream Cheese

The launch of Kevin Dundon’s partnership with Philadelphia cream cheese was the inspiration for a spot of cream cheese mash.


Spud Sunday: The Return Of The Spud Shake

My pursuit of the potato shake formula continues. Versions have been tried with mango and banana and declared good, even by the skeptics in the house, of which there are many…


A Seedy Offer

Passing on the word about Glenisk’s seed offer – sign up and get your organic french bean seeds here…


Smells Like Ice Cream To Me

I smelled the lilac that was beside my front door and was inspired to make lilac-scented ice cream…


Blessed Are The Cheesemakers…

Paneer is one of the simplest of cheeses to make – usually found in curries, here I’ve made a salad out of paneer curds and sauteed spinach – an alternative saag paneer, if you will.


Spud Sunday: Can A Potato Shake?

The potato milkshake – does the concept scare you? It scared some of the people at the guilty pleasures party I attended, but they drank it and lived to tell the tale. Elvis bread, on the other hand, they had no problem with!