The blackberries are out and it’s your chance to get free food. You can use them to make jam, cakes, ice cream, compote, crème brulée, coulis and even tea.
You can also use blackberries in savoury sauces. Venison goes well with autumnal purple-red produce and this Pan-fried venison with blackberry sauce is very fast and easy [...]

By Mitchell O’Brien
We’ve been doing this one at home for ages. The kids love it, but it works for a dinner party just as easy. Have a go!
Sweet and sour pork chops with buttery mashed potatoes
Total cost: (excluding electricity) € 8.80
Serves: 5
Cost per person: € 1.76

Broke and busy, I couldn’t get it together to go away. Instead, I had this great plan to fool myself into thinking I was abroad by having a dish a day from holidays past. I did have two successful meals but a hundred and one things came up and I ended up barely sitting down [...]

Every Tuesday, we’ll be featuring a €2 menu from our new contributor Mitchell O’Brien. Today, Mitchell shows us how to put together another family meal for just under €2 per portion.
Can you put together a meal for €1-2? Share your recipes here!
Beef Stroganoff
Total cost: € 9.96
Serves : 5
Cost per person: € 1.99

One of our readers, Mitchell O’Brien, sends us this excellent guide to feeding a family on a budget. We eagerly await his next installment:
As I am a keen amateur chef and with money becoming tighter, I’ve been trying to mind the meal budget without compromising on quality, variety and the fun of eating for our [...]

I know for many, the idea of growing your own is just too damn daunting but there are certain vegetables and herbs that just won’t fail - I promise.
Mint is unbelievable. It is a weed and it will grow anywhere and all year round. It’s such a sturdy plant that if you’re not careful it [...]

As part of my attempt to fool myself into thinking I’m on holiday, I am having a dish a day from holidays past.
Brazil had the most amazing food, in fact pretty much everything about Brazil was amazing.
I had some of the best fish stews there and if you like prawns there are loads of shrimp [...]

I spent the weekend waving people off on their holidays. I’m not the envious type but I did feel left behind and longing for an adventure myself.
Having no plans to go away, which I am pretty bummed about, I have decided to have a culinary adventure this week and try out some dishes of holidays [...]

Well, if like me, you’re planning on having a few over for food and want to serve up some interesting finger food; Arancini are the perfect and elegant bite for when people are standing around with drinks.
They are deep-fried rice balls made from saffron risotto rice with a mozzarella centre. You can also fill them [...]

Last week I gave a gushing review of ‘Made in Italy - Food and Stories’ by Giorgio Locatelli and my admiration for this Italian recipe book has not waned. In fact, since trying out a few more recipes, I have not stopped banging on about it to friends. I think they’re still my friends.
The only [...]