The best meatballs
Meatballs make a handy lunch or dinner. They can be served with roasted vegetables or salad. Alternatively, you can immerse them in a homemade tomato sauce.
Recipes
Spicy Roasted Cauliflower
Spicy roasted cauliflower makes a great side dish, with plain or other spicy food or add it to a salad to give it a lift. Leave in the oven to...
Fresh Fruit Flan
This is an easy, fat-free, low carbohydrate dessert. You can vary the fruit, depending on what is in season, but remember the calorie and carbohydrate content will change. Berries have...
Caprice Salad
Caprice salad makes a great starter, a side dish for a BBQ or party, lunch or it can form the base of a more substantial meal. Irish tomatoes are at...
Tea Brack
The Irish traditional Halloween or Barmbrack (bairín breac) contained various wrapped objects. The brack was carefully cut to avoid displaying the objects or charms, so that the recipient didn’t see they had...
Vegetable Stir Fry
It’s good to have basic vegetables in the kitchen so that a quick healthy meal can be rustled up at any time. Many vegetables can be stir-fried include peppers, courgette...
Low Carb Cauliflower and Broccoli Bake
Spruce up cauliflower and broccoli with this simple cheese sauce.
Chargrilled Steak
Well cooked steak is mouthwateringly delicious and has a sense of ‘special occasion’ even when there is no special occasion apart from being alive! With little effort, you can have...
Chicken with harissa, tomatoes and olives
This is a great dish for lunch or dinner. It is very quick to prepare. Even though harissa paste is quite spicey the finished dish isn’t very spicy. Serve it...
Tomato Salsa
This salsa is great with meat, fish, cheese and salads. Why not make extra and keep it in the fridge and add to dinner and lunches.