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Hummus
You’re probably thinking this is an Irish family food blog so what the heck has hummus, a Middle Eastern dish have to do with Irish food? I believe that our food experiences define our tastes and flavours as a family. My father served with UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) more than once as I was growing up. On one of his tours of duty my family was lucky enough to spend a number of months living across the border in Israel while he commuted to Lebanon for work everyday. I am still in awe of my mother who packed up the house, put it up for rent while…
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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.
