IN MY column I certainly give lots of recipe suggestions for meat and fish lovers but I sometimes wonder whether I do justice to vegetarians. So in this week’s column veggies are the heroes and I’ll share some inspiring recipes from a first time cook book author which truly illustrate the versatility of vegetables.

LAST WEEK we headed off to London with a group of teachers from the cookery school. We were on our school tour, a fact-finding mission to check out and experience the London food scene. It’s amazing what can be crammed into two days when you are on a mission.

COELIAC disease is triggered by eating gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley, oats and rye.

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Recipe for Gluten-Free Flour Mix

HAPPY birthday, Bramley Seedling. This year, all of us cooks and chefs celebrate the bicentennial of our favourite cooking apple. Bet you didn’t know it’s 200 years since a young girl, Mary Ann Brailsford, planted an apple pip in her family’s Nottinghamshire garden. One of those apple pips emerged as a vigorous seedling around 1809.

FOR those who have an interest in food and a concern about food issues, the last Thursday of every month is worth marking in your diary – Cork Free Choice Consumer Group will have a speaker at the Crawford Art Gallery from 7.30pm to 10pm.

Serves 4