Recipe ideas from Michelle Darmody

Chillies add spice and flavour to cooking.

The capsaicinoids that give the chillies their unique eye-watering abilities are good for clearing the sinuses and helping ward off colds.

I do not think a day goes by without me using chilli in The Cake Café kitchen in some way or another, either making up a batch of our very popular chilli jam that people smear on their eggs, or chopping some into a fiery salad dressing with a crack or two of black pepper or adding a pinch of dried chilli to our beans on toast.