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Irish

Lamb Ciste
3rd April 2016

Tucking into some boiled mutton last week simply gave me more of a taste for lamb and made me determined to try this traditional Irish recipe for Easter. A lamb ciste* (pronounced with a hard C) …


Hot Chocolate Gur Cake
7th April 2015

I was walking home one day last week when a friend called me and said without much preamble 'you know about donkey's gudge, don't you?' Pausing slightly to see if the noise of the A23 …


White Pudding Stuffed Cabbage Leaves
15th March 2015

  I used to be such a black pudding fan until I went fodmap, but I'd completely neglected its close cousin, the white pudding. Made from oats, onions and pork fat, it has a lot of …


Cream of Potato Soup
11th March 2015

For some reason despite more or less worshipping at the shrine of the spud, I have never made a potato soup without adding either leeks or kale for caldo verde. In fact I'd never heard …


Panada
29th December 2014

Christmas week tends to be quite hectic. Lots of socialising, lots of eating, maybe even a wee glass or two of something to lubricate it all with. By the gap between Boxing Day and New …


Brixton Boxty
5th October 2014

I have to admit that boxty wasn't something I ate as a child. Popular in Monaghan and Leitrim, it's a type of potato pancake made from grated potato, but it was so alien to me …


Homemade Mikado Biscuits
19th July 2014

I have been on a bit of a biscuit roll recently (if you'll pardon the pun) and rediscovering all kinds of childhood tastes. I blame that re-run of Nigel Slater's biscuit programme because it's certainly …


St Patrick’s Day Okonomiyaki
17th March 2014

I have no idea what the adjective for Irish-Japanese fusion food is, but we need one. Both Ireland and Japan love a bit of cabbage and seaweed (and whiskey). Their cuisines have more in common …


Fried Porridge
10th February 2014

I am probably constructed half and half from oats and potatoes if you consider my Scottish and Irish heritage. Childhood days started with oats in the form of porridge and ended with spuds for dinner …


Treacle and Ginger Soda Bread
13th October 2013

Soda bread may have become quite popular outside of Ireland, but I've never seen treacle soda anywhere else. This dark sticky soda bread was sold as farls when I was a child, especially around Hallowe'en …


Barmbrack
25th October 2011

As if autumn wasn't good enough with its abundance of harvest items, sunny days that don't actually require SPF and mellow fruitfulness, it also has Halloween. This is the perfect excuse to get dressed up …



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