Peter and I attended a really enjoyable event in Bord Bia the week before last: it was a series of presentations and workshops for Irish food bloggers, organised by Donal Skehan of the tremendous Good Mood Food blog.  We were treated to demonstrations of pork butchery and cookery, vegetarian cookery from Blazing Salads, advice on [...]

Continuing our occasional series on quick and easy midweek dinners, here’s one for the Asian storecupboard.
A healthy fallback, a quick and delicious dinner, and a good way of using what you have: stir-fries to the rescue. Lately I’ve been experimenting with some very simple variations, and I’ve hit on a few winners.
Egg Fried Rice with [...]

I’m told that I make a very good omelette. The “secret” (at least according to my dad, who makes the most gorgeous omelettes containing nothing more than some finely chopped onion) lies in whipping the yolk and white well and adding a dash of water and a dash of milk.
Once the egg hits the pan, [...]

My husband was recording in the house over the weekend and we had about a million people over. I made a ricky load of chilli and rice to keep the troops going - the chilli was scoffed but I had loads of leftover rice. What to do with it?
Well, you can do a number of [...]

Who ever thought that Ash Wednesday would take on a commercial edge? No mind, whether you’re observant or not, you may as well get some healthy fish while it’s on special offer.
Fish, chips, and minted mushy peas is an incredibly easy dinner to make and it’s utterly delicious. If you oven-cook the chips in olive [...]

Turkey is for life, not just for Christmas, says Garth McColgan, founder of FoodActive and resident chef at Aldi. Today, he has two quick, healthy, and delicious recipes exclusively for CheapEats readers.
So, the gorging season has come to a close and I am dead keen, as I am sure you all are, to start the [...]

Consumed by Consommé
On the way to pick up free tickets to an Elvis Presley and The Beatles reunion gig in the Olympia last week I started to thinking about making an Asian broth. So I went into the Asia market on Drury St and I picked up some ingredients what for to make some sort [...]

Halloween is coming up and it’s a deadly festival. It’s actually my favourite and the fact that it’s origins lie in the ancient Irish festival ‘Samhain’ makes it all the more intriguing.
I cram in as many horror films as I can in the month of October and embrace all the usual traditions in an attempt [...]

This dinner can double as both a Wednesday Wind-down and a fancy weekend meal. Either way, it’s cheap, quick and gorgeous. For a quick evening supper, serve the fish with balsamic reduction, jarred or home-made pesto and sides of baby boiled potatoes and peas. For the weekend, the seabass, balsamic and pesto goes well with [...]

We’re delighted to be joined this week by another new face to CheapEats: top chef Garth McColgan. Every month, Garth will be contributing an exclusive column to CheapEats.ie, full of top tips on feeding your family on a budget.
Garth knows a thing or two about cheap eats, having teamed up with Aldi to provide Ireland’s [...]