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Special Sauce
The 12 year old has always been, as her grandmother would describe her, “a great grubber”. She is brilliant and will try most foods at least once, loves exotic flavours, tastes and my cooking. In my naivety I assumed that the 3 year old would be the same. How wrong was I! We’ve been gifted with a child who up until recently would only eat finger food and as anybody who has a picky eater will tell you it’s exceedingly hard to introduce a varied diet. It clicked with me early on that he loved to dip his food into ketchup and would tolerate the tomato sauce on a pizza. …
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Garlic Mash
Creamy, garlic, spuds, what’s not to love? I live in an area that is well known for its spud growers. We get a fresh bag every week from a local farmer. This is a heavenly combination of local potatoes, garlic & parsley from our garden, full fat Irish milk and golden Irish butter. This is not a calorie counting type of dish but it’s filling and easily prepared in advance. We have this at least once a week as part of our main meal.
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Simple Icing / Frosting
This simple icing / frosting recipe is the easiest I have in my home recipe book. It’s my “go-to” when I want a reliable, consistent flavour and result. I use it for sponge sandwiches, covering cupcakes and on this occasion sandwiching 2 of my everyday cookies together. My basic rule is twice as much icing sugar as butter. Use a small amount of milk if you find the mixture is too stiff. Apart from that flavour it as you like. This time around I’ve used vanilla but you could equally flavour it with mint, the fresh rind of a lemon or an orange with a small amount of juice, cocoa…
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Anytime Cookies
This is a great recipe for light, crisp cookies that I baked this week for St Valentine’s. The cookies without any decoration will keep for up to 7 days, if you don’t eat them all, in a dry sealed box in your cupboard.
