Tag: vegetables
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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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It’s Bean A Good Year: Auspicious Eats, Propitious Provisions, New Year Cuisine
Read more: It’s Bean A Good Year: Auspicious Eats, Propitious Provisions, New Year CuisineBy Lizzie Gore-Grimes. All over the world people ring in the new year in a thousand colourful and clamorous ways. But they all have one thing in common. Whether they are celebrating New Year’s Day on 1st January, observing Jewish Rosh Hashanah in September/October or marking Chinese New Year in midwinter, every culture does so…
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Asparagus
Read more: AsparagusBy 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’ to these shores for hundreds of years. In the past it was widely grown in Ireland and few comfortable farms or country houses were without an…