“The Only Thing to do with Good Advice is Pass it On” Oscar Wilde Clodagh McKenna’s Cork Beef Stew from The Irish Farmer’s Market Cookbook is a real favourite of mine and is a frequently made winter warmer of a dish. Generally I’d served a big bowl of it alongside some fluffy mashed potatoes or [...]
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I have become more and more bitterly disappointed with supermarket bacon over the years; the wafer thin strips that spew grey, salty water into the pan so they poach rather than fry, withering up into tiny corrugated flaps of anaemic disappointment. You can taste the pig’s depression in the meat. I was a little dubious [...]
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“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.” Louis Bromfield, American novelist (1896-1956) Oh sunshine where have you gone? The weather has been a little challenging of late, to say the [...]
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