How to cook Christmas 2023: Show-stopping vegetarian and vegan recipes by Nigel Slater, Lilly Higgins, Paul Flynn and more
Showstopper savoury cakes, tartes Tatin, nut loaf and a Chinese favourite reimagined for vegetarians
How to cook Christmas: Show-stopping vegetarian and vegan recipes
Showstopper savoury cakes, tartes Tatin, nut loaf and a Chinese favourite reimagined
Ricotta: Italian cheese with an Irish twist
Try these ricotta and blackberry tarts made with simple ready rolled puff pastry
A lighter gratin recipe for summer
Summer gratins should be light, or at least lighter than the extremely rich potato gratin
Paul Flynn: Easy paella, cheesy soup and a warm hug of a pork dish
A simple paella, a traybake of pork chops and a cheesy soup, inspired by my chef heroes
Coronavirus: Essential foods to keep in your larder and fridge and how to cook them
Food can comfort us in troubled times – so what do we need in the days and weeks ahead?
A confirmed carnivore goes vegan: ‘I’m hungry, cranky and disillusioned’
Niamh Towey has been experimenting with a meat-free diet. It’s not going well
So here I am, clutching my Happy Pear cookbook and crying into my dhal
Changing Courses: After my pescatarian trial, I’m not sure I’m into vegetarianism, either
Time to embrace the challenge of cutting meat from my diet
Changing Courses: This six-week experiment won’t be easy for me – I was brought up to recognise dinner as being something that included meat or fish
Paul Flynn: How to roast a cauliflower like a pro
I wanted a meatless centrepiece that could be the star of the show even on Christmas Day
Nigel Slater: ‘I’m happy, but I’ve only just realised it’
Shy but chatty and warm, the food writer talks gardening, cooking and Marian Keyes
Let me introduce my dining soulmate: Trish Deseine on Jay Rayner
My Last Supper, the food writer and critic’s new book, is everything you’d want it to be
Baking with the kids is child’s play
Children will love this healthy spin on the sugar-laden breakfast pop tart, created with the help of my six-year-old son
Nigel Slater’s Greenfeast: Your five a day in a delicious bowl
Saturday: Broad beans, flageolets, courgettes. Spring soup. A bean feast
Nigel Slater: Asparagus puff pastry tarts, light as a summer breeze
Greenfeast Friday: Asparagus, puff pastry. Source Irish asparagus if you can
Nigel Slater’s super quick pasta with peas, pappardelle and Parmesan
Nigel Slater Week: Peas, pappardelle, Parmesan. Quiet flavours
Nigel Slater’s Greenfeast: A week of meat-free, plant-rich recipes
Monday: Freekeh, peaches, feta. Sweet-salty cheese and fruit; the comfort of warm grain
Nigel Slater’s Greenfeast: Restorative, comforting, encouraging
Who’ll love this new cookbook? Anyone who eats. Try this miso, mushrooms, pak choi recipe
Suffering from acute Christmas Dinner Syndrome? You are not alone
Can anything explain the enormous divergence of opinion among prominent food writers on the simple matter of roasting the Christmas bird?
Our favourite cookbooks for your favourite cook
Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver all feature in our 2017 top-10
My dad’s tumour left us with time only for food made with love
What do you give a man with two months to live? All the treats, and affection, that you can
Winner winner, chicken dinner
Make something special of this most versatile of ingredients with these simple one-pot recipes
Jennifer O’Connell: have a mediocre little Christmas
Wing it by channelling Gwyneth and Nigella with wrapped pebbles, soup tins and stale cake
Laoise Casey: ‘No one who cooks, cooks alone’
Through food writing and cookbooks, we are never cooking in solitude, even though we may be in an empty kitchen
Too many cookbooks and not enough cooking?
Hardly any of the recipes lined up in pretty books in our kitchens will ever get made
‘The the key to eating well at work is preparation, preparation, preparation... and finding a victim to share lunch duties’
Rachel Collins, production editor
My favourite Irish cookbook: ‘Use it to cook for people you love, or hope to persuade to love you’
Willy Clingan, managing editor
Donal Skehan, kitchen hero? We’ll soon see about that
Video: To mark the first day of The Irish Times Food Month we set Donal Skehan, the likeable 27-year-old television chef a test – can he pass on his expertise to a surly journalist with crumbs in his beard?
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