Recipes
You'll find recipe posts listed here in order, with most recent posts shown first. If you're looking for something specific, you may find it easier to browse via the recipe index, which has all recipes listed on a single page. Just click here or on the RECIPES link at the top of the page.Spud Sunday: Winter Buttermilk
Introducing winter buttermilk, made by fermenting flour with cooked & raw potatoes, and used in times past in Ireland as a substitute for buttermilk when making soda bread, that most iconic of Irish foods
Spud Sunday: Smiling Spuds
Last week’s episode of Bia Dúchais spoke of potatoes that smile easily – this potato-based lemon & poppy seed cake should make you smile easily too
Spud Sunday: Paddy’s Spuds
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so you want green & you want spuds, right? In that case, meet spudakopita – an Irish take on the Greek classic of spanakopita, with spinach, potatoes and some surprisingly Irish feta-style cheese.
Spud Sunday: A Farmer And A Gentleman
Slices of potato and celeriac stand side by side, baked and sprinkled with Glebe Brethan, one of the finest of Irish cheeses, and whose maker, the late David Tiernan, was one of the finest of men
Spud Sunday: Rose-Tinted Spuds
Mixing it up, spud-wise, with potato pinwheels, featuring mashed potato, goats cheese, toasted hazelnuts and spinach, rolled in puff pastry, sliced, baked and, quickly thereafter, eaten.
Spud Sunday: A Bake Is Born
Introducing potato and aubergine (or eggplant, if you will) baked in a coconut milk and tomato sauce – it’s a kind of Thai-style curry in baked form
Last Of The Summer Marmalade
This is orange marmalade, just as my mother makes it
Spud Sunday: Hold The Horses
After the recent horse-meat-in-beef-burgers scandal, these homemade potato burgers seem a much safer bet
