Tag: ingredients

Garlic Scapes

Georgina Campbell writes about her discovery and love of a lesser-known seasonal vegetable. It’s fair to say that garlic scapes are a pretty new concept to most Irish cooks, but…

No Kidding

As goat meat is in season, Georgina Campbell hopes the world’s most popular meat may soon be featuring on more Irish menus. The goat is the most widely used farm…

Armagh Bramley Apples

Georgina Campbell writes about one of Ireland’s much-loved, special food products, which has just been harvested at the end of last month – Armagh Bramley Apples. The special qualities of…

New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGI

By Georgina Campbell. Ireland’s answer to the famed Jersey Royal early potato from the Channel Islands, the New Season Comber Potatoes (or Comber Earlies as they are also known) are…

What’s In A Name?

By Lizzie Gore-Grimes. There are so many wonderful ways to enjoy food – eating it, of course, is best. But talking about it comes a close second. They say we…

Seaweed Song

By Lizzie Gore-Grimes. Underneath our very noses here in Ireland we have a rich culinary resource that goes largely untapped; and that gastro-goldmine is our sea vegetable-rich shoreline. From dillisk…

Game

By Biddy White-Lennon. We are fond of game whether furred or feathered in our household. We live in an area rich in game and once the season starts Camolin Woods…

Asparagus

By Nuala Cullen. Asparagus, surprisingly, is a member of the lily family, and like so many interesting vegetables, came originally from the Mediterranean, though it has been it has been 'native'…

Bringing Home the Bacon

By Georgina Campbell. St Patrick’s Day brings culinary thoughts around to traditional cooking, and March is a good time to remember the pig. It was probably the first domestic animal…