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Darina Allen

Learn how to cook with Darina's top recipes

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

Darina Allen: Lemon cake, Smoked Salmon and Pimentos de Padron

* Eurotoque Celebration Lemon Cake with crystallized rose petals and lemon verbena

Sat, 09 Jul, 2016

Diva Vegan Chocolate Layer Cake and other recipe's from Darina Allen

* Shannen Keane’s Diva Vegan Chocolate Layer Cake

Sat, 02 Jul, 2016

Lots of tempting ideas to try for delicious midweek suppers in The A-Z of Eating

A for almond, B for blue cheese, C for caramel, D for dumplings, E for eggs, F for fat and so on.

Sat, 25 Jun, 2016

Meals inspired by fresh produce

FOR those of us who love to grow some of our own food, this is the beginning of the bountiful season where each meal begins with an ‘oops’ in my tummy and a feeling of delight at the first radishes, first new potatoes, the first beets, the first fresh green peas, the first cucumbers, and most amazing of all, the first little cherry tomatoes, the earliest ever.

Sat, 18 Jun, 2016