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The Emperor’s New Omelette Challenge
It is my habit of late to conduct Saturday mornings at home to the tune of BBC’s Saturday Kitchen. This is an hour and a half of television programming which, each week, features cooking by two guest...
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Spud Sunday: World Spud Day
Sadly, folks, I have to break it to you that it’s not actually World Spud Day (epic and all as such a thing would be). What I can tell you, however, is that today is World Food Day, a day for focusing...
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On The Food Trail Again
I have never been a fan of early morning airport starts (well, who is?), but as I coaxed myself out of bed at an unreasonable hour this very chilly a.m., there were two things that helped: 1. some...
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Spud Sunday: A Spud’s Weekend In Wales
Welsh natives: the sheep do outnumber the humans here by quite some measure Today finds me still in Wales, land of castles, sheep, occasionally dodgy internet connections (hence the...
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Spud Sunday: The Return Of Foodcamp
The “Food Unconference” the organisers called it. The event in question, Foodcamp, returned as part of this weekend’s Savour Kilkenny festival, after a very successful inaugural outing last year. The...
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Spud Sunday: Michelin Spuds
Stéphane Robin smiled enthusiastically: “You must let us know if you try any of the recipes.” I was sitting in a reception room at Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud at an early hour perusing a copy of...
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Spud Sunday: Searching For Breakfast
My friend and fellow potato enthusiast, Dave Langford, is in the habit of sending potato-related snippets my way. The latest to hit my inbox was this little snapshot which, needless to remark, brought...
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Tales Of Wales
Flying the flag for Wales We were all packed up and in the van, ferry bound. There was just one last mission to complete before leaving Wales – to secure some creamy blue Perl Lâs cheese. We swooped...
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Spud Sunday: Falling Out Of Flavour?
I was just on my way out the door last Thursday when I heard it first. Right at the end of the Morning Ireland radio show on RTE. The interviewee was Lorcan Bourke from Bord Bia and the subject was...
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Spud Sunday: Spuds On The Shelf
If you want to see a man get exercised about potatoes, just suggest to Stephen Hennessy of The Boxty Bakers that his boxty slices are like a bit like potato waffles. The poor man who said as much to...
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Have Your Cake And Tax It
To be fair, it’s not the first time that brioche has been called cake. That famous quip attributed to the ill-fated Marie Antoinette, “qu’ils mangent de la brioche,” is most often translated to great...
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Spud Sunday: Crisps A Go-Go
Hard to believe, but I have been taken to task in certain quarters for having included on these pages a recipe for so simple a thing as the crisp sandwich. Yes, in these days where tv chefs and...
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Danish Cookies, Irish Butter
Inspired by Danish butter cookies, made with Irish butter I’m not exactly sure when it was that Danish butter cookies became a feature of Christmas in our house, but feature they did for several...
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Spud Sunday: Skinflint Saturday
Yesterday, I decided that I should let somebody else cook the spuds for a change. Seems only fair, no? It’s not like it was a difficult decision. Joe Macken, serial restaurateur and the man behind...
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Spud Sunday: Frosty The Roastie
'Tis the season to be roasting... You’d think, having published my 12-step roastie program two years ago, followed by last year’s investigation of the best spud for the roastie job, that when this...
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Spud Sunday: Christmas Spuds
“Remind me to make the trifle later,” says Ma. There’s little chance that I’ll forget. It being Christmas Day, this is no mere trifle (though mère trifle, on the other hand, it most certainly is). It...
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Spud Sunday: Another Spud Year
Gosh, is that the time? Time, that is, for the old year to pass the baton to a sprightly new successor, but not before a last backward glance at the year that was and, with it, my top ten picks from...
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Spud Sunday: A Resolutionary Soup
White winter vegetable soup: potato, celeriac, cauliflower and roasted garlic Ah yes, it’s that time of year where we resolve to swap the excesses of Christmas eating for regimes that are altogether...
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Spud Sunday: Spuds On The Menu
For some reason, it was the cause of much mirth amongst my work colleagues when I mentioned that, as part of my general spud research, I was meeting the president of the Irish Potato Federation for...
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Spud Sunday: Boozy Spuds
Tempting tipples... Several of my work colleagues, it seems, are off the jar for January (meaning, for those unfamiliar with that particular turn of phrase, that they are giving alcohol a miss for the...
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