Posts Tagged ginger

Take Me To Your Mackerel

It started with tasting lovely Inish Turk Beg smoked fish, it ended with this gingery smoked mackerel pâté and, in between, there was some good, old fashioned nostalgia for the number 10 bus


Spud Sunday: Michelin Spice

A day learning the ways of Indian cooking from Atul Kochhar is a day well spent. The result on the potatoes front was this recipe for Bombay Aloo.


Happy Tummy, Happy Heart

In support of the Irish Heart Foundation’s Happy Heart campaign, launched recently at Saba, I give you some Thai Hot and Sour Soup


Cool As A Cucumber Cocktail

The Cucumburt – a cocktail with cucumber, yoghurt, ginger, mint and coriander, plus a splash of gin and tonic. My way of meeting the Thirsty Thursday Challenge.


Cheap As Chickpeas

If I had very little money to spend on food, I would buy dried chickpeas and live on things like these baked chickpea burgers


Spud Sunday: Neeps And Tatties

It’s the traditional Scottish combination of neeps and tatties (turnip and potato), but they’ve been put together in a somewhat less than traditional gratin form here, along with lemongrass, ginger and yoghurt.


Oat Cuisine

In which I have the pleasure of meeting the Flahavans and getting to see the inside of their family-run oat mill in Waterford. I also made some oat and apple muffins in honour of the occasion…


Berry Berry

When is a berry not a berry? A trickier question to answer than you might think! Luckily, you don’t need to care about that to make this fresh blueberry sauce…