Posts Tagged ‘foodie articles’

The summer really is the season to embrace when it comes to fresh food.  From the limited harvest of tasty spring offerings we suddenly open up to a glut of new flavours.  It’s also a great time for traditional fruits and salad vegetables. Berries, plums, peaches, tomatoes, lettuce and all the herbs are in abundance.  […]

It’s a sure sign you’re married with young children when the long, wine fuelled gluttonous dinner parties of youth turn into sober Sunday daytime affairs where the excitement reaches its crescendo at the thought of trying a new flavour from the Nespresso machine with a homemade shortbread after you’ve eaten.   I suppose as we mature […]

There should be no doubt that the economy influences how we eat.  Those of us who care are seriously trying to maintain that delicate balance between good value, good nutrition and great taste.  After all you and I have long since agreed right here in this column that eating is so much more than a […]

I love cities in the early morning. Here or abroad I love strolling around quiet-ish streets observing the gentle bustle of the various businesses setting up shop for the day.  There are the familiar sounds of shutters opening and delivery vans pulling up and unloading and yet it is still quiet enough to hear the […]

Rain or shine, because the clock tells us it’s the summer, we can’t help but pull out and dust down our dreams of country picnics, lazy days at the beach, eating in the garden and barbecuing all round us until the end of August.  Needless to remark the sun shines high in the cloudless sky […]

Some foods tend to polarise opinion and tripe would certainly make that list.  You have a niche group that love it, the naysayers who have terrible memories of it and those who have never even tasted it but the suggestion alone causes ugly facial contortion.  It is clearly a divisive food.  Tripe and onions was […]

The world of snacks and treats was thrown into a state of frenzy this week as Tayto, the iconic Irish crisp, teamed up with Butlers Chocolate to produce a limited edition Tayto Cheese and Onion Milk Chocolate Bar.  Of course it initially causes a small wrinkle in the brain as you try to imagine the […]

With the Easter blowout over and spring (hopefully by the time you read this) in full swing properly with longer evenings, it’s time to freshen our plates and our palates once more. It must have been one of the coldest Easters on record and if not, it certainly felt like it. Despite all the lovely […]

As a nation we like to talk about the weather it is our ‘got to’ ice breaker for any and every occasion. It is strange that we have such a fascination with the elements given that we live in a relatively moderate climate and extremes are unusual. However, this winter has been one of them. […]

If we’ve never met then I can say with some degree of certainty that no one would ever choose to use the word ‘dainty’ in a description of me. The food I like and enjoy also falls into the more robust category. For example I like meaty, rustic, slow cooked one pots that are drenched […]

It’s been a while since Shrove Tuesday and Valentines Day came in the same week but an early Easter for 2013 has decreed it.  Looking ahead it’s going to be a very busy March as we seem to be packing all the spring celebrations together; St Patrick’s Day, Mothers Day and Easter will come close […]

If there are positives to be taken from the current financial climate then for butchers it has to be the renewed interest in the cheaper and less regarded cuts of meat. I’m quite thrilled by this because in our more affluent years we gradually lost out on so much when it came to taste and […]