It's awful to say but when I used to make brownies, I used to always go for a ready made mix where you only needed to add butter and water. But ever since it turned out I can't have wheat or dairy, I have had to step it up and make my own recipe from scratch! It wasn't really that much of a challenge as it's so easy to substitute…
Confession: This recipe for what we call 'Witloof' in Belgium is one that I've had for years, I even took the photos of it a long while ago but there was only one thing stopping me from sharing it with you all this time: Belgian endive, also called chicory in the UK, isn't grown in Ireland (correct me if i'm wrong though) and you can only find imported ones. The…
When I first bought my pasta machine I was all ‘oh yeah I’ll be making my own pasta every week!’. Nope. It was one of the first things I moved to Ireland and yet I haven’t used it in the last 2,5 years. So when I decided to make my own pasta again, I didn’t just go for the easier ones, nope I went straight for coloured and filled ravioli!…
We've had another really cold spell these last few weeks here in Tipperary, with snow and ice on a few of them and today is yet another very cold day so I thought it was the perfect chance for me to share this Irish potato & leek soup recipe with you all to keep you warm throughout the weekend. As you may have seen I've been making a lot of…
What better way to get rid of that blue Monday feeling, than to cook yourself some lovely pasta with a homemade pesto and some fresh cod, cooked in a slightly spicy sauce! I always make pesto myself, but I usually go for the standard garlic-basil pesto made with pinenuts, but today I wanted to make something with walnuts and a fruit that very often gets underestimated and isn't very…
Today probably doesn't mean much to most people, unless you live in Belgium where they are celebrating 'Verloren maandag' (Lost Monday) today. On this day they traditionally eat sausage rolls or baked apples in pastry so in honour of my roots I created my own sausage roll recipe, with some great winter ingredients and lovely herbs and spices. Now what is this 'Lost Monday'? Although it's generally known in Belgium, this…
As you may have read in my review of 'The Taste of Belgium', Belgium may be a small country but we have a large variety of food we like to cook! Back in 2015, one of Belgium's national chefs, Jeroen Meus, went on a search to find out what dishes were considered the most classic Flemish recipes by Belgians. Among the top 10 were chicory in ham, Flemish asparagus,…