Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been cooking quite random dishes of my own concoction. Partially because I like experimenting and partially because I keep ending up without the right combination of ingredients for “normal” recipes. This evening, for example, I had some leftover tomatoes that were “on their last legs” ie. if I [...]
Kale is a wonderfully tasty addition to your cooking arsenal. Unfortunately it can be quite awkward to get, so I haven’t been able to use it in my cooking for the last couple of months. Fortunately I’ve been able to get a supply in the last week both from local corner shop and from Tesco. [...]
Simple pasta dishes can be as tasty as the more complicated ones. This evening I made a very simple, yet incredibly tasty, pasta with anchovies and capers. It only took a few minutes to prepare and was delicious. Recipe below: Pasta With Anchovies and Capers Print Recipe type: Main Prep time: 2 mins Cook time: [...]
I don’t normally shop in Dunnes Stores. I find the range of products they have on offer a bit lacking compared to SuperQuinn and the quality of their meat and vegetables leaves quite a bit to be desired. The other evening, however, I needed to get some shopping, as I’d been travelling for a couple [...]
I’m really beginning to like spinach and having a couple of bags of frozen spinach in the freezer is fantastic, especially when I haven’t had a chance to do any real shopping, like this week. There’s a lot of different pasta sauces that you can make without using meat or fish and this one is [...]
Food is odd. You put a cup of rice into water and it magically expands into this wonderful food that can feed several people. Great, isn’t it? Problem is that you probably don’t really notice how much of this wonderful food stuff you’re actually eating. Until I started religiously following this diet (probably about the [...]
Tonight’s dinner was meant to be a pasta sauce with ricotta, but I couldn’t find any in the supermarket when I laid in this week’s healthy provisions. I’ve been cooking pasta (and eating it) for as long as I can remember, so tweaking a pasta based recipe isn’t that much of a challenge. I also [...]
