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Posted on Feb 15, 2012 in Cook, Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Catherine’s Family Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio

Catherine’s Family Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio
Catherine’s Family Kitchen landed in my own kitchen at a rather busy time. What with painting the newly renovated cottage, moving into it and the arrival of the Small Girl, this review got a little delayed. There are plenty of warming soups for wintery weather, quick suppers for cold evenings and...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 7 comments

Make Bake Love by Lilly Higgins

Make Bake Love by Lilly Higgins
For me, it’s all about the tart. The Raspberry Macaroon Tart to be precise. When I interviewed Lilly Higgins for a package about underground dining in Ireland for Lyric fm I visited her cosy house near Cobh. Lilly’s first move, as we walked into her kitchen, was to offer me tea. One glance at the...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 in Cookery Books, Do, Food Events, Read | 2 comments

Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland: A Celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin

Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland: A Celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin
If you’re a cheese fan, watch out for the forthcoming Farmhouse Cheese and Craft Beer Weekend which is taking place across the country during the October Bank Holiday weekend. There is more information on the events and, if you’re interested in participating at home, some beer and...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

The Ginger Pig Meat Book by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde

The Ginger Pig Meat Book by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde
Tim Wilson started off keeping a few rare breed pigs; 15 years later he heads up a successful business with four busy London butcher’s shops, under the name The Ginger Pig, which are supplied with a variety of meat from his three farms in Yorkshire. Part of the new wave of independent British meat...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

Trish’s French Kitchen by Trish Deseine

Trish’s French Kitchen by Trish Deseine
For years, Belfast-born Trish Deseine was probably better known in her adopted country of France than over here, winning many plaudits for books like Je Veux du Chocolate (well worth picking up online) and Ma Petite Robe Noire. But she’s got plenty to offer to an Irish audience, and it all comes with a...
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Posted on Jun 23, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein

The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein
I love Kiwi cookbooks and, with the Husband’s family feeling that birthdays and Christmas should be marked with new volumes, am lucky enough to have quite a few on my shelves. These books, from authors like Fleur Sullivan, Peta Mathias and Alexa Johnston often have a very different take on food; there...
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Posted on May 31, 2011 in Food Books, Read | 3 comments

Great Food

Great Food
The books in Penguin’s Great Food series might be small but they’re perfectly formed. For these slim little pocket – or handbag – volumes, the publishing house chose twenty writers from a variety of eras, from Samuel Pepys and Eliza Acton to Alexandre Dumas and Claudia Roden. Each of the...
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Posted on May 25, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Cookery School with recipes by Richard Corrigan

Cookery School with recipes by Richard Corrigan
As a child I spent hours poring over my mother’s cookbooks, particularly the one that had step-by-step photos of techniques like cooking a crab, making hollandaise and divesting an artichoke of its leaves. That book was full of exotic terminology and ingredients which didn’t have much place in...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 5 comments

Martin’s Fishy Fishy Cookbook by Martin Shanahan

Martin’s Fishy Fishy Cookbook by Martin Shanahan
For anyone with even a passing interest in Irish seafood, Martin Shanahan should need no introduction. Of his popular Fishy Fishy Restaurant in Kinsale, the Sister always says “arrive early and be prepared to queue or arrive late and be prepared to queue” but, for seafood lovers, it’s more than...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 8 comments

James Beard’s American Cookery and Claire’s Tea Rooms, Clarinbridge

James Beard’s American Cookery and Claire’s Tea Rooms, Clarinbridge
Sometimes when you see a cookbook you know you have to have it. That was the case on a recent trip to Galway to stay with the Schoolfriend. The Husband, Little Missy and I stopped off for a Very Nice Lunch at Claire’s Tearooms in Clarinbridge, which is also beloved by Gillian at Chocolate Here for its...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Slow Cooking by Antony Worrall Thompson

Slow Cooking by Antony Worrall Thompson
I wish I could be the kind of person who says that I’ve no interest in kitchen gadgets (and mean it) but that would be a total and absolute lie. My 10-year old immersion blender was recently replaced after it got a little overworked from Little Missy’s weening dinners and, faced with the idea of...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 1 comment

Cookbooks at Christmas

Cookbooks at Christmas
Some might say that it is too late for Christmas shopping but, as the Little Brother informed me this morning, there’s loads of time yet. Which would be fine if he wasn’t supposed to be buying for me – my family does Kris Kringle so that you only have to buy for one person – and most...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 in Read, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Chocolate at Christmas – 300 years ago

Lyric fm: Chocolate at Christmas – 300 years ago
It wouldn’t be at all unusual to come across something like Chocolate Cream or Whipped Chocolate Syllabub on a modern day menu. What is surprising is that these are dishes that may have been eaten at an Irish Christmas celebration during the 1700s, at least from the evidence of Mary Cannon’s...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

Food From Plenty by Diana Henry

Food From Plenty by Diana Henry
Ever since the sunshine soaked warmth of Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons I’ve been a fan of Diana Henry’s food writing. Her follow ups – Roast Figs, Sugar Snow (warming dishes from colder climes, perfect for this kind of weather) and the does-what-it-says-on-the-tin Cook Smart (the sausages...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 5 comments

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson 

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson 
Kitchen arrived at the cottage just before a recent weekend where I was the kind of unwell that makes you want to curl up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate and a good book. I picked up Kitchen – carefully, I didn’t want to drop the hot chocolate, and it is a Big Book – and it was the...
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