Tag: recipe
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Garlic Scapes
Read more: Garlic ScapesGeorgina 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 they came to everyone’s attention in a big way when they famously featured on Donal and Sofie Skehan’s wedding menu in June 2015 – when,…
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No Kidding
Read more: No KiddingAs 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 animal in the world for its milk, cheese and meat – yet, astonishingly, we hardly use it at all here, except for cheese. It really…
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Retro Christmas Recipe Cards
Read more: Retro Christmas Recipe CardsIntroducing the new Georgina Campbell capsule collection of retro Christmas Recipe Cards! A celebration of traditional Christmas food, each of the five A5 size (148 x 210mm/5.8 x 8.3in) cards in the collection features a favourite dish on the front and its recipe on the back. Inside, a brief seasonal greeting in English and Irish…
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Armagh Bramley Apples
Read more: Armagh Bramley ApplesGeorgina 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 the Bramley’s Seedling have made it the most popular cooking apple in Britain and Ireland, and those grown in Northern Ireland’s ‘Orchard County’ are extra…
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New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGI
Read more: New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGIBy 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 this island’s flagship potato and one of only a small handful of products here to have the right to use the blue and yellow EU…
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Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industry
Read more: Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industryBy Georgina Campbell. It was with great sadness that we learned of the untimely death of Gerry Galvin earlier this year – friend, colleague and inspiration for so many years. It’s hard to believe he’s gone, he was a gentlemanly giant of the hospitality world, quietly involved with so many good things right up to…
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A Private Audience With Gordon Ramsay
Read more: A Private Audience With Gordon RamsayBy Myles McWeeney. It is certainly not every day you get Gordon Ramsay cooking up a storm for you personally. Recently I was fortunate enough to meet him in the Ritz Carlton in Powerscourt, when the hyper-busy restaurateur was on one of his rare visits to his eponymous restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at Powerscourt. The space…
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Spiced Beef for Christmas
Read more: Spiced Beef for ChristmasBy Honor Moore. Traditional Spiced Beef was made at Christmas. A piece or brisket was used as the fat in these cuts of beef fat held the flavour of the spices. Now it is more often made with a piece of “corned beef” with the spices being added afterwards but it can be completely prepared…
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19 ways to eat yourself healthy
Read more: 19 ways to eat yourself healthyHealthy eating is not just about shedding pounds. The food you eat will govern the condition of your skin, eyes, hair and bones and is pivotal in protecting your body against heart disease, cancer and other illnesses. But it doesn’t have to be a drag, Lizzie Meagher lists 19 ways to eat well healthily! 1.…
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Blackberry and apple crumble
Read more: Blackberry and apple crumbleBy Charlotte Coleman-Smith. Blackberry and apple crumble was one of the first things I ever cooked. Let’s be honest – I was a mere spectator, but with the arrogance of extreme youth, I believed it was mostly down to me. My dear mother did not disillusion me. Thus confidence is gained, and peace reigns. I…