• Dinner,  Recipes

    A Week Of Dinners – Séan O’Rourke Special

    Séan O’Rourke and his team very kindly invited me in to RTÉ Radio One this morning to chat about my love for cooking for my family, and my best friend the slow cooker. 😉 Here are all the recipes that we’ll be eating at home here in the week ahead (all going according to plan). Okay, okay if it doesn’t go according to plan then that’s life. My biggest problem is now that I’ve committed the menu to writing for the week ahead I’ve a 17-year-old who will hold me to it. I don’t think I’ll be allowed to slack off given most of these dishes are firm family favourites.…

  • Frugal Living

    Meal Planning

    Things I have learnt from doing the stocktake: You could wrap our entire estate in the amount of kitchen roll I found in the bottom of the press. If I’m ever stuck for cement I have plenty of weetabix which will suffice. There is enough coffee here to last for years, probably because I don’t drink the stuff. What I need to buy to carry us through the next week: Milk – yep, that’s it. I have enough fruit in dried and frozen form to last more than a week. There are loads of vegetables in the fridge and the freezer, plenty of butter and yoghurts.  I have enough meat…