The winter vegetable is particularly good with goose, duck or pheasant.

Serves 4.

Recipe for Fluffy Lemon Pudding.

Cookery Classes at Snugboro 2008: Rory O’Connell teaches intensive one-day classes at his home near Ballycotton, Co Cork. Private classes or workshops for groups or individuals can be organised! — rory@rgoconnell.com; tel: 086-8516917.

AMY, one of Sarah’s friends treated them to this one night at her house for dinner.

1.4kg (3lb) Seville oranges

WITH a pot of brown rice and some stir-fried or steamed greens, these strips of pork belly have a warm, spicy flavour.

THIS Portuguese soup is a first cousin of coddle — but the potatoes are mashed to a rough puree and then the greens and chorizo are added.

IN Spain, tortilla is not just a dish it’s a way of life.

THIS is my favourite dessert when I eat at Isaac’s Restaurant in Cork, it’s so popular they can never take if off the menu.