Category Archives: What’s for Dinner Mom?

Bulgar Wheat Salad

Pea & Mint Bulgur Wheat Salad

I came up with this recipe for a recent edition of Cork Independent .  It’s a simple and tasty side dish that works well with quickly fried lamb chops or simply serve it on its own for a super healthy

Bulgar Wheat Salad

Pea & Mint Bulgur Wheat Salad

I came up with this recipe for a recent edition of Cork Independent .  It’s a simple and tasty side dish that works well with quickly fried lamb chops or simply serve it on its own for a super healthy

Cannellini Bean & Pesto Salad

Cannellini beans in classic basil pesto with roast cherry tomatoes & griddled courgette ribbons.

Cannellini beans in classic basil pesto with roast cherry tomatoes & griddled courgette ribbons. This is what I’m all about, tasty food that’s easy to make and with ingredients that are easily obtainable from your supermarket because, let’s face it,

Cannellini Bean & Pesto Salad

Cannellini beans in classic basil pesto with roast cherry tomatoes & griddled courgette ribbons.

Cannellini beans in classic basil pesto with roast cherry tomatoes & griddled courgette ribbons. This is what I’m all about, tasty food that’s easy to make and with ingredients that are easily obtainable from your supermarket because, let’s face it,

Roast Pesto Cauliflower

Roast cauliflower with basil pesto, parmesan & pinenuts

Roast cauliflower with basil pesto, parmesan & pine nuts. After a lovely get together with some fellow Irish food bloggers and the lovely ladies of Sacla UK I came away with my newly packaged squeezy bottles of basil & tomato

Roast Pesto Cauliflower

Roast cauliflower with basil pesto, parmesan & pinenuts

Roast cauliflower with basil pesto, parmesan & pine nuts. After a lovely get together with some fellow Irish food bloggers and the lovely ladies of Sacla UK I came away with my newly packaged squeezy bottles of basil & tomato

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Roast Squash & Bulgur Wheat Salad

Donal Skehan’s third book ‘Kitchen Hero – Great Food For Less’ is packed full of tasty recipes with plenty of vegetarian options to choose from including this Roast Squash & Bulgur Wheat Salad. This salad makes a great side dish

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Roast Squash & Bulgur Wheat Salad

Donal Skehan’s third book ‘Kitchen Hero – Great Food For Less’ is packed full of tasty recipes with plenty of vegetarian options to choose from including this Roast Squash & Bulgur Wheat Salad. This salad makes a great side dish

Bean Enchiladas

Bean Enchilidas

This simple vegetarian supper is satisfying and filling enough to placate the hardened meat eaters in your life.  Made using store cupboard ingredients along with onions, carrots, natural yoghurt and cheese you may already have all that you need to

Bean Enchiladas

Bean Enchilidas

This simple vegetarian supper is satisfying and filling enough to placate the hardened meat eaters in your life.  Made using store cupboard ingredients along with onions, carrots, natural yoghurt and cheese you may already have all that you need to

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Cauliflower, Courgette and Goats’s Cheese Pizza

Gluten free and Vegetarian this pizza is delicious.  Discovered via Domini Kemp’s feature in The Irish Times Magazine she in turn credits her sister-in-law Doris Choi for this amazing recipe from the book ‘The Fresh Energy Cookbook: Detox Recipes to

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Cauliflower, Courgette and Goats’s Cheese Pizza

Gluten free and Vegetarian this pizza is delicious.  Discovered via Domini Kemp’s feature in The Irish Times Magazine she in turn credits her sister-in-law Doris Choi for this amazing recipe from the book ‘The Fresh Energy Cookbook: Detox Recipes to

Braised Red Cabbage

Christmas Day – Side Dishes – Red Cabbage & Stuffing

Braised Red Cabbage.  As a supposed ‘foodie’ I should perhaps be slow to admit that I have never had red cabbage as an accompaniment to Christmas Dinner.  I’ve listened over the years as friends and acquaintances raved and swapped recipes

Braised Red Cabbage

Christmas Day – Side Dishes – Red Cabbage & Stuffing

Braised Red Cabbage.  As a supposed ‘foodie’ I should perhaps be slow to admit that I have never had red cabbage as an accompaniment to Christmas Dinner.  I’ve listened over the years as friends and acquaintances raved and swapped recipes

Chicken Curry Dish

Chicken Curry

Chicken curry, well now that’s a very generic sounding dish isn’t it? What originally started out as a ‘biryani’ transmorphed into a good old curry when an instruction or two into Lorraine Pascale’s ‘Lazza’s lamb biryani’ recipe I realised that

Chicken Curry Dish

Chicken Curry

Chicken curry, well now that’s a very generic sounding dish isn’t it? What originally started out as a ‘biryani’ transmorphed into a good old curry when an instruction or two into Lorraine Pascale’s ‘Lazza’s lamb biryani’ recipe I realised that

Nigellissima Roast Chicken

Nigellissima Roast Chicken with rustic potatoes & larder envy

There’s a lot to love about Nigella Lawson’s latest TV programme – Nigellissima (BBC2) and there’s a little to despise which makes it compulsory viewing if you’re about to partake in a foodie gathering anytime soon.  Even if you’re not bothered on

Nigellissima Roast Chicken

Nigellissima Roast Chicken with rustic potatoes & larder envy

There’s a lot to love about Nigella Lawson’s latest TV programme – Nigellissima (BBC2) and there’s a little to despise which makes it compulsory viewing if you’re about to partake in a foodie gathering anytime soon.  Even if you’re not bothered on

Harissa Pork Chop close up

Harissa Pork Chops with Moroccan Couscous

You are unlikely to find a jar of harissa paste lurking around the supermarket shelves in this particular corner of the globe.  It will more likely be waiting amidst a tantalising display of goodies in a specialist food or deli

Harissa Pork Chop close up

Harissa Pork Chops with Moroccan Couscous

You are unlikely to find a jar of harissa paste lurking around the supermarket shelves in this particular corner of the globe.  It will more likely be waiting amidst a tantalising display of goodies in a specialist food or deli

Moroccan Chicken

So disappointed that I haven’t done this dish justice with the photos because it is amazing.  It is truly one of those roll your eyes to the back of your eye-socket dishes.  It is simple to make, sounds sophisticated and

Moroccan Chicken

So disappointed that I haven’t done this dish justice with the photos because it is amazing.  It is truly one of those roll your eyes to the back of your eye-socket dishes.  It is simple to make, sounds sophisticated and

Lamb Parmigiana

Let summer linger a little longer with this Sicilian inspired dish.  Lucky enough to taste authentic parmigiana cooked by my new brother-in-law’s grandmother in Sicily this summer, I knew it was ‘the’ one dish of the many, many amazing dishes

Lamb Parmigiana

Let summer linger a little longer with this Sicilian inspired dish.  Lucky enough to taste authentic parmigiana cooked by my new brother-in-law’s grandmother in Sicily this summer, I knew it was ‘the’ one dish of the many, many amazing dishes