The slow cooker chef: comforting low fat cottage pie recipe

During a cold snap a few weeks ago I had a longing for a really good Cottage Pie. So I made a version of this dish in the slow cooker (crock pot). Adding vegetables from our garden – the cottage...

Best recipes for leftovers: Low fat stir fried coriander lamb with mange tout, baby corn and lime i

We cooked Spanish lamb last weekend and still had lashings of lamb and sauce left over. Sometimes we are well intentioned, making a Shepherd’s pie with the remains. More often the remnants are...

White soda bread with oatmeal recipe

Just before I met Danny I attended a bread making course at Darina Allan’s cookery school in Ballymaloe. It was a great course covering a vast swathe of bread making from brioche to Irish soda bread....

The Cake Unadorned

These days my cooking has strayed towards a utilitarian bent. I still enjoy the primal acts of peeling and chopping and roasting and frying. I remain transfixed watching heat and chemistry work their...

Butternut squash is the best winter squash

This is not winter squash:One advantage of homeschooling is that faced with too much zucchini, yellow crookneck, patty pan, and kousa squash, you just bring out the butter knives and conduct...