Stuffed chocolate dates

January 18, 2017

January seems like a good time to feature a recipe for one of my favourite healthy snacks. The cliche is that people start in on rigorous diet and exercise regimes…

Naomi Devlin’s teff pitta breads

September 21, 2016

Today I have a recipe to share with you, and that recipe is for gluten-free pitta breads. However, they are so good I suggest we put the gluten-free bit to the…

Baked goat’s cheese sweet potato

September 08, 2016

I’m going to start this like a banal conversation. This weather we’re having is very confusing. It’s summer, but it’s overcast and drippy and the sky is like dirty dishwater….

Cherry pickings

July 04, 2016

This time last summer I was eating my way through boxes of cherries, roundly pregnant, breathless, counting the cherry stones till I got to meet my little love. Now the…

Cheesecake fumble

June 14, 2016

Last week my mum came to visit, an occurrence that is much more frequent since a certain small baby, holding the esteemed post of Grandchild Number One, came along. She…

How to: use up leftover coffee

April 27, 2016

I hate food waste. It pains me deeply to throw any food away, no matter how tiny the amount (I’ve been banging on for years about wanting chickens, but we…

Wild garlic mayonnaise

April 10, 2016

I can’t remember if I’ve written here before about wild food, about my love of foraging, about my time at cookery school in a rural corner of Ireland sugaring violets…