Recipes | My Emerald Kitchen

Anzac biscuits (oat biscuits)
Dates, dark chocolate & walnut pastries
Triple Flavoured Goat Cheese Appetiser Balls and Logs
Black pudding, apple and cranberry sausage rolls
Fuss-free quick & easy Christmas Black Forest Brownie Trifle
Roasted pecan salad with Medjool dates, prosciutto and a blue cheese dressing
Marinated & Braised pulled lamb tacos with pickled red onion and a tomato - chilli sauce
Pumpkin risotto with goats cheese, chestnut mushrooms and watercress
Basic Chocolate Truffles with cocoa powder, hundreds and thousands and chocolate sprinkles
Rosewater Meringue Drops
Pink Ribbon Vanilla Cookies (for my Pink Ribbon bake sale)
Braised Beef in red wine with butternut squash puree, chestnut mushrooms and cranberries
Honey, Rosemary & Parsley Roasted Parsnip Chips/Fries
Baileys Tiramisu served in cocktail glasses
Baileys Tiramisu in a casserole
Garlic Crostini with Spiced Lamb and Avocado, Grilled Vine Tomato and Mozzarella
Rib eye steak spinach salad with green herb sauce, colourful tomatoes, mango, red onion, chilli, radish and grilled corn on the cob
Vanilla Butter Cookies - ideal for baking with kids
Eclairs with vanilla custard and chocolate sauce
Plain pork sausage rolls
Flavourful lamb meatballs with tomato rice, chickpeas, peas, feta and mint
The best ever potato & apple salad
Portuguese Custard Tarts
Chocolate & peanut butter protein bites/balls
Baked Rhubarb custard pies (gluten-free and dairy-free)
Chicken caesar salad with grapes, homemade caesar mayo dressing & croutons
Delicious roasted chicken with your own rotisserie spice rub
Oven baked gluten-free and dairy-free nutmeg & cinnamon cake donuts
Sweet Home Alabama's Plum Jam
Raspberry & Walnut Fudgy Brownies (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)

Happy 2019! I can't say my year has gotten off to the best start as I got floored by the flu, which also means I didn't get a chance to do any cooking yet this year, so I'm really REALLY looking forward to getting back into the kitchen this weekend and whipping up some new recipes. I know that a lot of you will be wrecked from all the Christmas cooking, so I figured Donal Skehan's latest book would be a perfect book tip to kick off the new year. Donal Skehan himself of course needs no introduction, as one of Ireland's most loved chefs his cookbooks have been flying off the shelves for years and his tv shows are well watched. I think it's safe to say that with his move to the US and the birth of his first child with his wife Sofie, Donal's life got turned upside down and he needed some recipes that could be whipped up quickly. And we all have times like these in our lives, where we simply don't have the time to spend hours on our cooking - as much as we'd want to. The book is divided in 6 different [...]