Local Traditions
Spud Sunday: Still Full And Plenty
Potato drop scones – fat little pancakes, really – a recipe from my mother’s 50-year old copy of Maura Laverty’s Irish classic, Full and Plenty – a book still worth reading today
Spud Sunday: Welcome To Hamburg
A trip to Hamburg brings me into contact with labskaus, a colourful potato dish with an interesting background and a (tenuous) connection to The Beatles
Spud Sunday: Knocking On Mayo’s Door
A visit to the Mayo Alive festival leads to my first encounter with Mayo boxty. A recipe for same ensued.
Rare Auld Dublin
Culture Night, the Dublin Civic Trust and a recipe for traditional Dublin Gur Cake – that’s a lot of local culture for one post
A Time To Bloom
If it was real Irish food and drink you were after, then Bloom in the Park was the place to be, with boxty to be made, poitín to be drunk and much else besides
Putting The Ham In Sandwich
A ham sandwich from Denny – an Irish tradition between two slices of bread. This year’s Bloom in the Park festival is just one of the many places to enjoy same.
Spud Sunday: Leitrim Boxty, 3 Ways
Lessons in the art of making boxty as demonstrated by a real Irish mammy.
Spud Sunday: Spuds Of A Younger Land
A review of Mark Kurlansky’s excellent book, Food of a Younger Land, of which my favourite piece is An Oregon Protest Against Mashed Potatoes – a no-holds-barred attack on those who try to fancy up honest-to-goodness mash.
