I’ve been trawling through the very excellent BBC Good Food website in order to learn some new healthy dishes and avoid dying of boredom while eating healthily.  I found many lovely recipes including a great one for Sicilian Fish Stew. I tried it out, made a few tweaks, used a generous hand with the lemon [...]

There’s half-price fish and chips to be had at hundreds of chippers across Ireland today, Wednesday May 25. This is the second “National Fish and Chips day”, organised by the Irish Traditional Italian Chipper Association (ITICA). Chippers promoting the offer will advertise in their window or above their shop sign. Look out for the logo. [...]

Here’s a simple recipe for trout that doesn’t require much fussing or measuring. Trout’s reasonably cheap too, and often on special at Superquinn. This serves two, alter as required. Ingredients 2 trout fillets 1 lemongrass stalk, finely chopped* A knob of ginger, finely chopped 1 red chilli, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 1 [...]

Fish pie is one the most delicious dishes ever and the ultimate comfort food. You can make it as heavy and as light as you like and add a variety of fish although properly smoked fish works a treat. If you are not much of a cook and have never made one before this BBC [...]

I fancied some classic fish ‘n’ chips but my beloved Burdocks (man they give huge chip portions) was miles away in the big smoke. Stuck up a mountain and with no option but my local chipper which serves up manky muck, I had to rustle up something myself. My local Supervalu was doing a deal [...]

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 [...]

Attention fancy bastards!  A tipster has got in touch to say that Donnybrook Fair in Dublin 4 is selling whole live lobsters for €10 this week only. Let us know if you make it down there and grab one, and what delicious things you’re going to do with it.  YUM. Thanks to the gorgeous Sally [...]

These days we are bombarded by nutritional facts and figures which on the one hand is a good thing because we are getting important information but on the other hand can be really confusing. It can be very difficult to pick your way through the maze of food facts and figure out if certain information [...]

I work mostly from home but I have been working quite a bit in the city lately. Living in the sticks and having no car means I have to contend with an epic journey home. After enduring the longest Dublin bus journey in history (even longer than the 17 bus route), I then have a [...]

As part of a whirlwind tour of Hook peninsula I popped into Roches in Duncannon for lunch. This is a charming family-run bar and restaurant: one brother is serving, one is behind the bar and the others (along with talented head chef Denise Bradley) are in the kitchen. The bar area is very quaint with restaurant [...]