Don’t shop when you are hungry — you will spend more…

East Cork Slow Food upcoming event.

For the past decade virtually every cookbook, food magazine and cookery article I picked up was concentrating on meals in minutes and assuring us we could whip up delicious food in a flash.

A frittata is an Italian omelette. Unlike its soft and creamy French cousin, a frittata is cooked slowly over a very low heat, during which time you can be whipping up a delicious salad to accompany it.

Seville oranges are now in the shops so pick some up. These bitter sweet oranges produce marmalade with a unique flavour.

Recipe for Eggy Bread

I HAVE chosen some suggestions for a Christmas Eve supper menu from several new cookbooks which have been released for the festive season.

FEW PEOPLE can recall going into the festive season at a time of such doom and gloom. Many of us remember when little treats were much looked forward to — a tangerine, some plasticine, maybe a few balloons or colouring pencils in our stockings.

Roast Goose with potato stuffing is almost my favourite winter meal. However, a word of caution, a goose looks enormous because it has a large carcass.

Christmas Gift Books