Kicking off a regular new feature, seasonal recipes from some of the country's most talented chefs, here's a winter soup to make you feel all warm inside. Kate Lawlor is owner and head chef at Fenn’s Quay, Cork, specialising in seasonal dishes with locally sourced ingredients.
They say that smell is the most powerful of the five senses in terms of evoking memory and emotion, and there's simply nothing beats the heady aromas of mulled wine to remind everyone that Christmas has officially started. This is our tried and tested recipe at home.
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.
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.
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.
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 ..
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.
This salmon dish is about as healthy as it gets as it is steamed along with the vegetables and served with a super simple soy dipping sauce.
Posted by NiallThis is one of the recipes I have designed for busy professionals for when they get home and just want to throw something together super fast. It is made with the one complaint that I hear from people all the time in mind: "I don't have enough time to cook".
Those keeping an eye on us in the last couple of weeks will have seen my contributions to the new wine blog on Look and Taste.
Ok, so we're jumping on the Great Pancake Bandwagon today. One day of pancake-mania where you'd swear you couldn't get a pancake the rest of the year.
One of the things I love about Irish winters is the justification to close the curtains at 5pm, build a roaring open fire, open a big bottle of red wine, and tuck into some winter comfort food.
I've gone all Italian of late. Not in the belligerent, brooding, erratic-driving kind of way (that's me normally), rather in my love of the wines and cuisine of my favourite holiday destination.
Ah, Spaghetti Bolognese. The quintessential student staple, and probably the dish most debated as to who’s got the best recipe. I know, because I’ve argued passionately myself.
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