It’s St Patrick’s Day and naturally, you’ve thrown a party. The guests have chomped happily on Shamrock Salmon sandwiches and green soup. Now it’s time to add the cherry on top – literally! St Patrick’s Day is a day of celebration, of remembering and championing all those things that make Ireland great… we feel a [...]
That most green of parties is coming around again (St Patrick’s Day, for those living under a rock. On Mars.) So to help you celebrate wherever you are, we’ve selflessly eaten our way through countless recipes. Last year, we gave you typical savoury St Patrick’s Day recipes and suitably green drinks recipes. Now, it’s time [...]
St Patrick’s Day Recipe Dilemma: You want to throw the greatest St Patrick’s Day party of all time and the only green options you have are broccoli or food dye. We know your pain, reader, so we scoured the country for a little help and a few recipes. We found it at The Village at [...]
You know we love eating around here. Blogging about recipes, food, and eating out in Ireland we have actually used the term ‘nomnomomomm’. And it was spot on. But if all those TV chefs are to be believed, there is a whole other satisfaction before the finger-licking, belly-rubbing, tipping the waitress part. They call it… [...]
Barm Brack can contain raisins, sultanas, and even statues of the Virgin Mary. But it always contains a good helping of Irish tradition. A lot of people who grew up in Ireland have fond memories of eating Barm Brack at Halloween, praying for the slice that contained the penny or ring. But you can enjoy [...]
If there was ever a staple of traditional Irish cuisine, and a must-have on the breakfast table, it’s soda bread. Be it the star of an Ulster fry (in farl form), or just eaten straight with butter or jam, it’s a favourite most Irish folk would recognize. It can come straight and thin, or heavy [...]
Soon we will all be tucking into that annual festive feast; the Christmas Day dinner. In Ireland, it’s all about the bird – the turkey with all the trimmings to be exact. We tracked down a recipe for a classic Irish roast turkey, complete with a delicious stuffing and the perfect gravy to pour over [...]
It might seem a bit early to be thinking about Christmas dinner (oh who are we kidding – we’ve been dreaming about it since October!) but lucky for us, it’s finally time to talk about Christmas Pudding. In Ireland, preparations for plum pudding begin in late November, so you’ve no excuse not to start getting your [...]
It’s in the café of Louis Mulcahy’s pottery on West Kerry’s Dingle Peninsula that whipping sea turns into whipped cream. The architect of this culinary corner is chef and writer, Emer Fallon, and we’ve cornered her for one of her most popular recipes – Carrot Cake. Winter in West Co. Kerry can sometimes be long [...]
“You won’t have a bad meal here, boy” says the taxi driver, winding the car between Cork’s city streets to our dinner date. This humble response (followed by ‘boy’ when neither myself or my 33-year-old companion would quite qualify) is typical Cork, but as much as I smirk at the superiority complex of the second [...]
