Wild Food by Biddy White Lennon & Evan Doyle: Wild Garlic, Leek and Potato Bake
Wild garlic for the picking It’s the time of year when every woodland walk is done with a nose cocked for the scent of wild garlic. When living in Dublin, the almost-rank smell of the late-season...
View ArticleFood for free: elderflower vinegar, cordial and champagne
It’s taken a while. For heaven’s sake, we were drinking homemade elderflower cordial in West Cork more than two weeks ago! Finally North Cork has caught up and this past weekend was the perfect weather...
View ArticleMy homemade Crème de Cassis in The Irish Times and other blackcurrant ideas
It’s been a good year for blackcurrants. Normally I have to battle it out with the blackbirds to get a share for my kitchen but this year they have been able to gorge themselves – as evinced by the...
View ArticleGarden gluts: Sausagemeat, Courgette and Apple Plait
Every year we plant one – one – courgette plant. Every year we still manage to have a glut. I’ve been getting more strict with these summer squash, always trying to pick them when they’re young and...
View ArticleThursday jamborees: Damson Amaretto Jam
This time two years ago, we had a four-week-old baby, an obstreperous two-and-a-half-year-old, a newly renovated – but not entirely finished – cottage and a six-month-old brewery. There was no time, no...
View ArticleListen – Culture File: Alys Fowler’s Letters to a Beekeeper
To paraphrase the Lorax, Alys Fowler ‘speaks for the bees.’ She was at the Ballymaloe Litfest in May, talking about self-funding her latest book Letters...
View ArticleRead: Farming in the heart of Dublin in Irish Country Living
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View ArticleIn Season: Homemade Elderflower Cordial
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View ArticleDamson, Stout and Vanilla Jam
I’m keeping an eagle eye on some trees at the moment. Hidden in the hedgerows of the fields that surround the cottage, there is a store of purplish-black gold for those who know where... The post...
View ArticleSimple blackberry tart with fennel blossom
Before it’s too late for blackberries – and there are still lots out there – get out and grab as many as you can. Even if you only eat them there on the spot,...
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