Posts Tagged cheese

Killer Cheeses

How’s about an Irish cheese plate for Paddy’s Day? Or some raclette, using St. Gall cheese from Fermoy? All as inspired by a recent Slow Food Ireland raw milk cheese tasting.


Spud Sunday: Pressure Cooking

When Bord Bia announced a new season potato recipe competition, I clearly had to enter. I was more than pleased with the resulting potato, cheese and onion mini-pies and so, apparently, were they…


Blessed Are The Cheesemakers…

Paneer is one of the simplest of cheeses to make – usually found in curries, here I’ve made a salad out of paneer curds and sauteed spinach – an alternative saag paneer, if you will.


Going Nuts At Christmas

Nut roast gets a bad rap, a seemingly poor vegetarian substitute for the meats on special occasions, but it doesn’t have to be so. This cheese and nut loaf is rich, meaty and tremendously satisfying…


States Of Cheese

Some thoughts on the melting point of different cheeses, to wit camembert melts as soon as you look at it, while halloumi holds together well and is good for grilling and frying. A particular favourite is slices of halloumi fried and served with some portobello mushrooms…


Crimes Of The Kitchen

For me, I dislike it intensely when people take perfectly good ingredients and, through lack of care or skill, manage to make something that may be edible but is unpleasant or worse….


I Propose A Toastie

The humble cheese toastie, food of the Gods!