Spud Sundays
Spud Sunday: A Bar Too Far
Tayto chocolate with cheese and onion crisps. Did it have to happen?
Spud Sunday: Write Me A Weekend
A perfect weekend was had at the Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine, with world class speakers providing plenty of food for thought and a desire to do it all again.
Spud Sunday: Life Before Spuds
Ireland before the potato – what we ate then and what we can learn from it now: some thoughts on ‘A Study of Irish Food Culture before the Arrival of the Potato’ by CIT culinary arts students
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: Boney Bart And Other Stories
Remembering the story of Boney Bart and others that my Da used to tell
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: Snakes And Spuds
Spuds. I eat them and, in the case of this shed snake skin & potato pendant by Earth Apple Jewellery, I wear them too. What’s more, I’ll be engaging in lots of spud talk at July’s Food Blogger Connect in London.
Spud Sunday: Like It Or Lumper
Potato Day makes a welcome return to Sonairte in Co. Meath and I visit with Lumpers in tow. Unfortunately for some, they were of the not-for-sale variety…
