And the winner of the Saba cookbook is… Here are your random numbers: 50 Timestamp: 2011-12-16 15:21:34 UTC Congratulations, commenter number 50, that’s you Mark. We’ll be in touch to let you know how to claim your prize. For those of you who weren’t lucky this time, please consider buying the Saba Cookbook as a [...]

Competition closed If you know someone who likes cooking, Thai and Vietnamese food, or both, The Saba Cookbook is the perfect Christmas present. There’s plenty of gorgeous recipes, information on Thai and Vietnamese food, stories about Saba, and beautiful food photography. The recipes feature easily accessible ingredients. Compared to some other restaurant cookbooks on the [...]

Best Thai restaurant in Dublin? Arguably a toss-up between Saba and Koh. Saba is consistently delicious, with fresh flavours and imagination always to the forefront. A few weeks back, Jean and I attended the launch of their new cookbook, Saba: The Cookbook. It’s not unusual, of course, for a restaurant to bring out a cookbook. [...]

In today’s Pricewatch, Conor Pope talks to Elizabeth Carty, author of Shrewd Food: A New Way of Shopping, Cooking and Eating, a new cookbook about feeding a family of four for less than €100 a week. Pope writes: The idea of a cheap eats cook book is hardly new and since the start of the [...]

I’m really loving Anissa Helou’s fantastic mezze recipes, as well as the stories on her wonderful blog. She currently has a lovely tale to tell about chocolates made from camel milk. Here’s two more mezze recipes from her excellent book Modern Mezze; check out more of her books here. Mezze are so versatile: they make [...]

I’ve been watching Jamie Oliver’s New European Series – so far I’ve seen him in Morocco, Spain and, most recently, Greece. This episode was all about simple ingredients simply put together. He went spear fishing, met up with some bee keepers and nibbled on some goats cheese with a Greek Orthodox monk. Some of the [...]

Catherine Fulvio, Darina and Rachel Allen, and Kevin Thornton are among the top chefs featured in Get Mellow Go Yellow, a yellow-themed recipe booklet to raise funds for the Meningitis Trust. The booklet, which costs just €5, can be downloaded at www.mykidstime.ie. The lemon cupcakes look good!

Although it has been out for a couple of years, I have only just come across the incredible Italian cookbook ‘Made in Italy – Food and Stories’ by Giorgio Locatelli. I have been a fan of his since seeing his recipes in the Observer Food Monthly but having over 600 pages of his dishes is [...]

You have to try this Italian dessert, it’s Baked Amaretti and Vin Santo Plums with Mascarpone Cream – outrageously good. It is from the recipe book ‘Falling Cloudberries’ by Tessa Kiros. With a really rich, full-bodied taste, it’s a winner if you’re looking to impress. I went all out and bought the ingredients from The [...]

Since being with my partner, I have put on one entire stone. There is no mystery as to why – it is because I have spent too many nights on the sofa with a glass (ahem) of wine and some really good food, which invariably contains all or one of the following: cream, butter and [...]