With the kids out in the garden at every opportunity this time of year, the last thing I want to be doing is spending a lot of time cooking. Even picking up the ingredients for this beautifully simple appetiser from Niall couldn't be easier, as there's only three.
With over 80% of all couples now choosing to bring their own wines to their venue, choosing the perfect wedding wine has become a little bit more complicated than simply taking the hotel 'house' red and white.
Straight from the Look and Taste kitchen, we have yours truly on the 3 essentials to picking a wine glass, with the '+1' on how much wine you should put into it (if you're into your wine etiquette!).
As a lover of all things Italian, this devastatingly simple recipe jumped out at me, particularly for the main ingredient of wild mushrooms. If you can't get fresh, don't worry about it, dried mushrooms are great and available in any decent grocer.
This week we asked Sean Fee, CEO of Look and Taste, for his favourite recipe from the ever-expanding Look and Taste video library: I’ve had a good couple of years to try out a few of the video recipes we have on lookandtaste and there’s a few that have become part of my limited repertoire, one o ..
We've been having great fun in the last few months with the guys from Look and Taste, and Niall's recipes matched with wine are now a firm fixture on this blog.
There is something so simple about eating good noodles and they really are so simple to make.
To describe Viognier as the bridesmaid of the great whites doesn't just hold a bitter truth, but a serious lesson in the dangers of the global fashioning and commoditisation of wine.
With people having to tighten their belt and watch their spending these days due to the dreaded "R" word there is no better way to save a few Euros than by cooking at home instead of eating in fancy restaurants.
This is a very simple recipe that you will be able to throw together, and for some reason it has turned out to be one of the most popular recipes on the whole site.
As Niall Harbison is so quick to test out on us every Thursday, we love a good challenge, so in chatting recently with the Daily Spud, the web's most authoritative and creative chef and blogger on all things potato, we were delighted to accept the task of matching wine with spuds.
One of the hardest desserts that you will ever have to make is a soufflé but we have cracked it and made a super simple recipe here.
Following last week's post on spicy wines, I thought it appropriate to delve a little deeper into one of the world's most identifiable, if difficult to pronounce, grape varieties. First things first: correct pronunciation. Guh-voorts-tra-meen-er.
This is one of the first video recipes I saw from Lookandtaste and it's what excited me most about their concept. Classic dishes, superbly demonstrated by a top class chef, on demand.
If you're a big fan of spicy food you could be forgiven for thinking that your choice of wines to dine with is limited. Go into any Indian restaurant and chances are the people around you are drinking either a Gewurtztraminer or the safe bet of the house beer.
When I was first coming up with recipes for Lookandtaste, this Frittata video was one of the first to be included as it is a recipe that I actually cook for myself when I have no idea what to make for dinner, am short of time and only have a handful of veggies and some eggs in the fridge.
One thing I’ve noticed since we started a wine business last year is the giddy nervousness that friends develop when bringing a bottle of wine to the house.
People often eat out when on holiday in Spain and love Paella but would be horrified about the thought of trying to re-create it when they get home but this simple video shows you that it is actually a great dish that can actually be put together in one pan and requires minimum washing up which is a ..
It is with some irony and much sadness that just a couple of weeks after my tribute to the wines of d’Abruzzo, the beautiful mountainous region of central Italy should be international headline news following a devastating earthquake near the medieval city of l’Aquila.
Just as its national team awoke as a sleeping giant of international football last summer, Spain has its own sleeping giants in wine terms. Most famous for the red wines of Rioja or the bubbly Cava of Cataluña, Spain is showing internationally that it’s much more than just one or two superstars.
With Easter just around the corner it’s now time to start planning the long weekend and, hopefully, a lent-busting, chocolate-laden, recession-forgetting big family hooley! If (heaven forbid!) you’ve abstained from wine for lent, you can now start thinking about leaping head-first off the wagon ..
This week I have a recipe that has a little heat and some unusual flavours in there to try and confuse the boys as they have just been getting the matches spot on.
From the unfashionable and sometimes controversial Riesling to the height of fashion and consumer tastes in the last ten years, this week we turn our attention to perhaps a more contemporary great ‘food wine’, Sauvignon Blanc.
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