Here’s a recipe to teleport you to Greece from your own kitchen using the humble spud. Just imagine the blue sea, the blue skies, sitting outside a taverna and all those tray bakes of vegetables, meats and fish. The Greeks are masters at tray bakes and the tavernas often have […]
A Flavour of West Cork
This is just what we need at this time, carrot salad elevated to a vegan prawn cocktail status. It’s guaranteed to cheer up the day and boost our immune systems. This is a rehash of a salad that we’ve been eating for years but re-assembled. The carrots and avocado are […]
I’ve been holed up with a box of lemons – literally. I inherited an entire box when we closed the shop this week because of the Coronavirus and have been merrily making my way through it ever since. I have a big kilner jar of pickled lemons, or should I […]
Baracoa, in Guantanamo province, is the oldest and most remote town in Cuba. At the very easterly tip of the country it’s the most Irish of Cuban towns. Add on twenty degrees and you could be home. The weather changes constantly, clouds rolling in dumping rain, the wind from the […]
This month we are eating our way around southeast Mexico. We flew into Cancun and travelled down the Caribbean coast of Quintana Roo towards Guatemala. It’s very beautiful, the water is crystal blue, but it comes with full-on tourism and touts so we decided to head away from the coast […]
Lentils are the fast food of legumes, they don’t need any soaking and can cook within 20 minutes, which make them a great contender for embracing Veganuary or just resetting the body after all the feasting. Whichever way you look at it, these little protein bombs make instant non challenging […]