Makes 8.My sister Blanaid makes the yummiest muffins — seemingly in minutes.

The fifth Eurotoques food forum and fair will take place at Brooklodge, Macreddin, Co Wicklow on Sunday, September 3, 2006.

THIS is a terrifically versatile vegetable dish which may be made ahead and which reheats well.

THIS wonderful tomato stew is best made during the summer, when the tomatoes are very ripe, but it can still be very good made with tinned tomatoes in the winter.

REDCURRANT jelly is a very delicious and versatile product to have in your larder.

Serves 10 approx

I hated seed cake as a child and now it is one of my great favourites. It may just be a flavour that grows on one as one gets older. I bought a delicious cake from Marguerite Garton of Ballydehob.

Makes 25-30 pieces.

DON’T forget to put the Midleton Food and Drink Fair, which takes place on September 2 and 3, in Midleton, Cork, into your diary.

Recipe for Mary O’Keefe’s Featherlight Sponge