Posts Tagged christmas

Spud Sunday: Cheese & Roasties

By now it’s a fixture in the potato calendar, the annual Daily Spud Christmas roastie round-up – I also had a few words to say in today’s Sunday Times on the subject of Irish cheese


Spud Sunday: Christmas Spuds

Christmas dinner preparation gets underway and there will be roast potatoes, trifle and more

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Spud Sunday: Frosty The Roastie

Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without a post on the subject of roast potatoes. This year I consider the question of freezing your par-boiled and ready-to-roast spuds – a good idea or a compromise too far?

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Danish Cookies, Irish Butter

Butter cookies, a recipe made with Kerrygold Irish butter and inspired by the Danish butter cookies of Christmas past


Spud Sunday: ‘Twas The Day After Christmas

Redcurrant chutney, a new addition to the Christmas table


Spud Sunday: Roasties Revisited

Roast potatoes are an essential part of Irish Christmas dinner, but which potatoes make the best roasties? 5 different types of potato later, we have a winner…


The Cup Of All Fears

Butterscotch-glazed coffee shortbread bars: a gorgeous entry for the International Holiday Cookie Recipe Exchange & successfully executed, my cup measurement phobia notwithstanding


That’s Entertainment…

Celebrity chefs: are they chefs first, entertainers second or the other way ’round? The Taste of Christmas theatre show made me wonder. No need to wonder about these cheese, sage and onion scones, though…