Caitríona Redmond: Bring your tastebuds on a sun holiday with my orange polenta cake

To evoke memories of time spent in the Middle East, I finish a meal with an orange polenta cake, washed down with bright, fresh mint tea. 

Caitríona Redmond's orange polenta cake: Food and culture are entwined, and you can’t consider one without the other.

There are several reasons why I begin to budget for a holiday in November, not least because it helps me stay on track in December, which is arguably one of the most expensive months of the year. 

If I don’t set the goal now, I might suffer from budget creep in December.