Saucy TV show

I HOPE you have been watching the TV programme, Rachel’s Favourite Food, on Wednesday nights on RTE1 at 7.30pm.

I’m proud of my daughter-in-law: she came to the cookery school as a student in 1990. A gorgeous butterfly, who, by her own admission, was more interested in the boys than the cooking techniques, Rachel caught the eye of my eldest son and the rest is history.

Despite herself, Rachel became fascinated by food and proved to be a natural in the kitchen. Rachel cooked in Ballymaloe House for a year, then put her pack on her back and travelled and tasted her way through Canada and South East Asia, before coming home to teach at the school.