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      • Fruit
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      • Chicken
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  • Christmas,  Lunches,  Meat,  Recipes

    Ham Soup With Dumplings

    23/12/2018 /6 Comments

    This ham soup with dumplings is a great one-pot meal. You could even freeze the cooking water from the ham on Christmas Day and reheat it to make the soup at a later date. [recipe][recipe title=”Ham Soup With Dumplings” servings=”5″ time=”1 hour” difficulty=”easy”] Ingredients 1 litre ham cooking liquid/stock 1/2 turnip/swede, peeled and chopped into dice sized pieces 4 medium carrots, peeled and chopped into dice sized pieces 100g of dried soup mix 300g plain flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 2 spring onions/scallions finely chopped 30g melted butter 70ml cold water 400g shredded, cooked ham Method Take a large, heavy bottomed saucepan with a firm lid. Pour in the stock,…

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    Caitriona Redmond

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  • Lunches,  Meat,  Recipes

    Black Pudding Salad

    22/07/2014 /6 Comments

    You might have seen the recent video where Buzzfeed staff in the US decided to try out some Irish ‘snacks’. I’m not sure that many Irish people snack on black pudding. That’s not to say that we don’t like it. The only person who won’t eat it in the family is the 15-year-old, simply because she prefers the white version, straight from the casing. Before you get worried about eating raw meat product;, pudding is cooked in the casing before going on sale, it’s traditionally cooked a second time before eating at home – but it is perfectly safe to eat chilled. It’s always the traditional foods that cause the…

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    Grilled Turkey Wrap With Pesto

    06/07/2014 /1 Comment

    I recently had the opportunity to work with a piece of kit from Tefal called the OptiGrill. I have to emphasise I am under no obligation to share my recipes here on the blog. However, I am genuinely impressed with the grill; how it cooks food, how I was able to use it for many versatile meals, and it has even converted my other half to cooking at home more.

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    Take 1 Chicken, Meal 2 of 3

    24/06/2014 /2 Comments

    This is the second in a series of 3 blog posts where I’m sharing recipes for a family of 5 for under 63c per portion, based on 1 roast chicken. For the shopping list, and first recipe, check out my first post from Sunday evening “Take 1 Chicken, Meal 1 of 3“.

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    Turkey Carrot Rice Crackers

    12/12/2013 /No Comments

    This day fortnight (insert shriek of panic here) you will probably get to the point where you don’t want to see another piece of turkey or ham for a month. Yet sitting in front of you is half an uneaten turkey and likewise a ham. Christmas can be a time of excess and you’ll always spot it at the Christmas dinner table.

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    Pearl Barley Salad

    07/03/2013 /

    I’m working through my store cupboard ingredients one by one to try and rotate my stock. This pearl barley salad is a different use for a grain I’d normally use for stocks and soups.

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    23/12/2018

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    26/04/2012
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    Potatoes in a Jar

    23/08/2012 /35 Comments

    It’s National Potato Day on Saturday 25th August, here’s a quick potatoes in a jar recipe to celebrate that uses leftovers. It’s perfect for kid and adult lunchboxes alike. There’s also a chance to win a hamper of goodies from Keogh’s Farm!

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    Sausage Rolls

    28/07/2012 /4 Comments

    This is an easy way to make your own, unique sausage rolls that your kids (and big kids) will love.

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    Man-wich

    20/06/2012 /4 Comments

    ; Also known as the No Need To Knead Loaf. I’m a sucker for supermarket specials. It’s for that reason I should be banned from the local Lidl, I tend to go down to the shop and stock up on the discount fruit & veg, marvel at the savings I’ve made on those and then spend all I’ve saved on bits & bobs from the baskets on the middle aisle.

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  • Lunches,  Meat,  Recipes

    Jubilee Leftover Lunch

    03/06/2012 /6 Comments

    This is a basic coronation chicken recipe which I use for my leftover roast chicken, particularly if I’ve made a roast on a Sunday. You can tweak the fillings to the tastes that your children have and I prefer it on crackers but it’s perfect in wraps, sandwiches, pitta breads and on its own. It seems appropriate to use it today, on the jubilee as it’s based upon the original Coronation Chicken Recipe! However it’s doubly the right time to use it as the Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards were launched for 2012 within the past week.  I was one of the finalists in the Lunchbox Challenge section last year…

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  • Lunches,  Meat,  Recipes

    Ham Hock Terrine

    26/04/2012 /3 Comments

    Ham hock is one of those little-used cuts in Ireland. Used so seldom that I normally have to request that the butcher keeps some for me and I rarely, if ever, see it on a supermarket shelf.  I don’t know what it is but it seems that any cut of meat that involves a bone or messy work people seem to shy away from cooking.  There really is no need to be so worried about cooking any kind of meat on the bone so long as you have done your research right, anyway cuts of meat on the bone lend themselves to long, slow cooking to make the most of…

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    Jar Salad

    13/04/2012 /7 Comments

    In my “celtic tigress” days I would have thought nothing of roasting a chicken, picking what meat I liked and then throwing away the carcass.  It’s far from throwing away the carcass I was reared and my mother still makes her own stock from roast chicken which I now do as well. If I’m careful 1 medium chicken will do us for 3 meals and if I have potatoes left over from dinner it also makes a batch of my potato scones.

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