Dinner

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


Paint Me A Pizza

A pizza makeover with a bit of Irish flavour, featuring four Irish cheeses, potato, leek and turnip no less.


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: 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: 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


Pop-up Goes The Restaurant

This roasted lemon & dill salmon was just one of the lovely Clodagh McKenna dishes served at the Jacob’s Creek pop-up wine and dine experience held in the crypt at Dublin’s Christchurch Cathedral


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


Spud Sunday: Vive La Spud

Antoine Augustin Parmentier, he who popularised the potato in France, also lends his name to these herby potatoes parmentier, with roasted potato cubes and plenty of fresh herbs