Eats

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


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.

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The Pickle Of The Crop

These slightly sweet pickled redcurrants are one way of making the short redcurrant season’s bounty last the year ’round


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