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Chick pea, corn & burnt aubergine soup, lime yoghurt

Aug

26

2013

I got the idea for this soup when I was making the Italian classic pasta e ceci one evening, although the only thing they really have in common is a pureed consistency and chick peas. Rather than thicken the liquid with the beans though I used fresh corn I bought in the market. The good ...

Summer Quinoa Salad

Aug

7

2013

This is the second last of my seasonal quinoa salads so there’s not much to say really: I just went to the market and grabbed a load of the best looking vegetables. Something I’ve noticed is that although broad beans always seem to be considered a spring vegetable I never see any Irish ones before ...

Carrot, fennel, yoghurt, orange blossom, tarragon 4

Jul

31

2013

I’d been planning on doing this recipe a few weeks ago but one thing or another had stopped me from cooking it nevermind writing about it. As it happens, this was quite fortuitous because reading a post over on Conor Bofin’s excellent One Man’s Meat blog I was alerted to a competition Glenisk are running ...

Mackerel, elderflower, kohlrabi, apple, sorrel

Jul

15

2013

It feels like everybody is blogging about elderflowers at the moment and it does seem like there’s an abundance of them this year, which probably explains the glut of posts online. I thought I’d do something a bit different to last week by revisiting my old friend maltodextrin to create a powder from a homemade ...

Goat, Beetroot, Carrot, Elderflower Gel, Edible Flowers

Jul

7

2013

This recipe was inspired by a trip to Fallon & Byrne where I saw they were selling different coloured baby beetroots and then at the meat counter racks of Irish milk fed goat. I’ve written about the combination of lamb and elderflower before and given that goat has a similar, albeit stronger, flavour I knew ...

Strawberry, Basil, Black Pepper

Jun

30

2013

This recipe is based on a dish I had in Estonia of all places and even stranger was the whole city was covered in snow at the time so it couldn’t have been less suitable for the weather if it tried. The main reason I ordered it was because I’d never seen black pepper or ...

Sous Vide Farsumagru

Jun

21

2013

I normally don’t post recipes that plenty of other people have covered – and probably better than I would anyway – but there doesn’t appear to be anybody who’s written about cooking the classic Sicilian dish, farsumagru, sous vide. Of course, it had occurred to me that perhaps there was a reason for this and ...

Squid, courgette, mint, pine nuts

Jun

17

2013

This is the starter from a meal I made last weekend for some friends and I’ll be posting recipes for the other two courses when I finally get round to writing them up! We were having a Sicilian dish called farsumagru for mains, which is a meat roulade stuffed with meat and yet more meat, ...

Spring Quinoa Salad

May

30

2013

In part three of a two part series I never intended on writing, here is yet another quinoa salad recipe. What’s happened with these is that as the year has gone on I’ve changed the dish depending on what’s in season, with the only constant being the grain and a yoghurt based sauce. And given ...

Rose veal, asparagus, chanterelles, wild garlic, fondant potato, porcini sauce 2

May

23

2013

I would really love to have made this recipe with morels but I couldn’t even find the dried ones here in Dublin last week never mind fresh so I had to make do with substituting chanterelles and porcini instead. The dried porcini sauce was actually very easy to prepare yet intensely flavoured even though it ...