Langouring in the back of the fridge watching other flavours of jams and marmalades coming and going, apricot jam is taking up room and probably feeling like a bit of a waste of space. Creeping up behind cranberry sauce sales at Christmas time those figures must surely be dwindling with the demise of Christmas Cake [...]
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Sticky Apricot Chicken & Apricot Couscous
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Apricot Couscous, Apricot Jam, Sticky Apricot Chicken on May 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Chermoula spiced chickpeas in stuffed & roasted peppers
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Chermoula Paste, Diet, Healthy Eating, Stuffed Peppers on May 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a tasty Moroccan inspired recipe that’ll fill you up and make you feel healthy at the same time. Anything with lemon, honey and ginger sings cleansing or purifying and accompanied with the right amount of spiciness you’re destined to feel renewed. This John Torode chermoula paste recipe lay unexplored amidst the pages of a [...]
Easter Eggs
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Dill Salad Dressing, Duck Eggs, Easter Eggs, Egg and Potato Salad on April 5, 2012 | 9 Comments »
What could be more perfect at Easter time than a basket of magnificent duck eggs. I was fortunate to be gifted these beauties by fellow food writer/blogger Mona Wise on the occasion of the ‘Gimme the Recipe‘ book launch last week at The Mill Restaurant, Blarney. The first use that sprang to mind was baking [...]
Honey Glazed Rashers on Lemon & Vegetable Couscous
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Honey Glazed Rashers, Lemon and Vegetable Couscous, What's for Dinner Mom? on March 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Honeyed and stickily sweet rashers sit on a bed of lemony zipped couscous fortified with a mighty selection of healthy vegetables. There’s plenty that could be said about this dish perhaps beginning with the sweet honey and sharp lemon combination. They speak of soothing and of comfort and indeed with the succulent rashers comfort is [...]
Beef & Onion Hotpot
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Beef & Onion Hotpot, Irish Beef Recipe, What's for Dinner Mom? on March 1, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Inspired by a flavour-filled french onion soup that I enjoyed at Ballymaloe last weekend (Food Writing Course with Hugo Arnold), I wanted to cook something where the onion was the hero of the piece. Onions are both prolific and cheap along with being tremendously under-celebrated. Yet how many dishes start with a gently sauteed or [...]
Roast Squash & Legume Soup with Ciabatta Croutons – Simple Supper
Posted in Uncategorized, What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Ciabatta Croutons, Hearty Soup, Simple Supper on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You may be tired after a long day and want something filling to eat but not another stodgy pizza that’s going to make you feel like a beached whale later and have you trying to ‘be good’ tomorrow. It needs to be quick too. So how quick is this? It takes about 20 minutes all [...]
Suet Crust Pastry
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Beef Suet, Heston Blumenthal, Savoury Pastry, Suet Crust Pastry, The Fabulous Baker Brothers on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Over the past few weeks we’ve been watching Heston Blumenthal doing crazy stuff in the kitchen. Things that have my 10-year-old twin boys looking for aerosol cans in the supermarket and dreaming of dry-ice. While I love watching the show and admire the genius that he is, there is no way that I’m transporting any [...]
White Pudding with Champ Potatoes and Pea Puree
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Burns Night, Burns Supper, Champ Potatoes, Haggis, White Pudding on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Tonight (25th January) is Burns night in Scotland celebrating their famous poet Robert Burns and this is traditionally done with a Burns Supper. If you are unfamiliar with the name you will be familiar with his most famous song ‘Auld Lang Syne.’ Anyway in Scotland they will be cooking up plenty of haggis this evening [...]
Onion Relish
Posted in What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged Onion Marmalade, Onion Relish on January 20, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Little by little I’m getting to try out making things that I’ve never made before and over the past few months that has included a couple of preserves in the form of chutneys ( blackberry & apple, date & apricot ) and pickled cucumber . It’s one of the exiting things about food, there’s always something new [...]
Pasta alla luce del sole
Posted in Uncategorized, What's for Dinner Mom?, tagged bacon and sun-dried tomatoes, Pasta with courgette, Sacla' on January 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »
No, that doesn’t mean pasta that is good for the soul but hopefully translates to mean ‘Pasta in the light of the sun.’ I’ve googled it and haven’t seen a recipe with this name yet so it’s mine, all mine, an original. 2012 is looking like a very exciting year for me with the publication [...]
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