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Darina Allen

Learn how to cook with Darina's top recipes

Robin Gill’s Garden Courgette with Smoked Buffalo Milk Curd and Roof-Top Honey

On a recent visit to London I got to Palomar in Rupert Street in the heart of Theatreland.  I’ve been wanting to go for ages but could never get a table. 

Sat, 27 Aug, 2016

Darina Allen travels to the UK to visit organic growers, farm shops and farmers markets

* Roth Bar and Grill Lemon Curd Muffins

Sat, 20 Aug, 2016

Darina Allen: Claudia Roden’s Konafa with a Cream Filling

I spent a few days recently on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, I taught a course here at the Cookery School entitled ‘A Taste of Istanbul’. 

Sat, 13 Aug, 2016

Darina Allen shares with us Sarah Cremona's favourite recipe for macaroons

JUST said au revoir to another group of 12-week certificate students who have truly put 110% into 12 full-on busy weeks here at the Ballymaloe Cookery School. 

Sat, 06 Aug, 2016

Here are a few of Darina Allen's favourite offal recipes

I’VE just tasted meringue, macaroons and brownies made from fresh pigs blood — is there no end to what I’ll do in the name of food research?

Sat, 30 Jul, 2016

This pizza and roman chicken and chips are great comfort foods

For Irish people particularly, Rome immediately conjures up images of the Vatican and St. Peter’s square. 

Sat, 23 Jul, 2016

Here are just a few of the delicious foods Darina Allen tasted in Sicily

On our way to celebrate a very special anniversary with some friends in the foothills of Mount Etna, we snatched an extra few days to rediscover Sicily.

Sat, 16 Jul, 2016