Ok.  So it’s not really called Trapattoni sauce.  It’s called Trapani-style rigatoni and it’s a super quick fix beautiful pasta sauce to make your mid-week dinner taste amaze. It’s from Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals, which doesn’t seem to be ageing all that well as a whole cooking concept.  I’m still getting a lot of […]

Mushrooms.  I totally get why people hate them.  They’re weird and woody, strong and over-powering.  But it is, in fact, those very qualities which endear them to my tastebuds. It’s true that I’ve yet to meet a mushroom soup that didn’t make me feel bleurghsome, but I am, however, a big fan of mushrooms in […]

Every week since signing up to Home Organics, we’ve received a lovely big head of broccoli in our fruit and veg bag.  The first two weeks, I was at a loss as to what to do with it, feeling truly uninspired by this most healthy of brassicas. It’s not broccoli’s fault.  It really isn’t.  It’s […]

And so, the verdict on Crackbird, Dublin’s latest pop-up restaurant on Crane Lane in Temple Bar, brought to us by the good people of Jo’Burger? We came, we saw, we ate – it was AMAZEBALLS. There is an emphasis on sharing and communal eating here, and as our waiter (although waiter almost seems too formal […]

Image by Crackbird Squeee!  A pop-up restaurant in Dublin!  Crackbird, brought to you by the good folk behind Jo’Burger, will be supplying people with reasonably priced and on-the-slightly-naughty side of food, with an emphasis on fried chicken.  I WANT TO GO TO THERE. Having opened on Monday of this week, reports on Twitter last night […]

What ARE you?! Every Monday is like Christmas since we’ve signed up to Home Organics (sorry for constantly going on about this new service but I can’t help it, it’s just too awesome).  I work evenings so the bag is delivered to our house when I’m out.  Like an excited child who can’t wait ’til […]

I love couscous.  Always have, always will.  It’s such a quick thing to prepare and makes for a great light lunch or dinner. I recently discovered a new way of preparing it, thanks to Home Organics.  Until now, I’ve always just poured boiling stock over a bowl of cous cous and fluffed it with a […]

Some of you may know that I recently embarked on a weekly Foodie News column in The Irish Independent’s Weekend magazine on Saturdays.  This not only started 2011 off with a delighted squeal of happiness but it has also allowed me to to work a few hours less at my day job as an EFL teacher. […]

I’ve mentioned the amazing NYC-based food blog Smitten Kitchen before on this blog, when I made her outstanding asparagus and pancetta hash.  So good, and a recipe that I’ve made/adapted more than twice since. What makes her blog so special is not only the beautiful photos and the inspiration she provides for all of us […]