Author: Olive O'Brien

How To Make Puff Pastry Sausage Rolls

How To Make Puff Pastry Sausage Rolls

An award-winning way to impress your guests at any party is to make the humble but oh so very tasty home-made puff pastry sausage rolls. This delicious favourite finger food can be easily frozen in batches and can be cooked from frozen for any unexpected…

3 Ingredient Recipe Desserts

3 Ingredient Recipe Desserts

How simple can this be? This dessert is an old (vintage :-)) type dessert and as with many of its era is quite simple to make.  Summer’s best friends Rhubarb and Strawberry mix well together in this spectacular mousse. There is no real challenge to making…

Sausage and Baked Beans

Sausage and Baked Beans

I’m not sure if sausage and baked beans would still be considered an Irish tea-time favourite but a variation of this dish is what we were given to eat as children some 40 odd years ago. We loved it and given my mother had 8…

Irish Cottage Pie

Irish Cottage Pie

This is an old family favourite especially when there is a lot of mouths to feed, it’s a hearty and comforting meal and this recipe will feed 4 adults. As a child growing up we would have eaten this once a week, especially in the…

Hearty Leek and Potato Soup

Hearty Leek and Potato Soup

Now that the winter months are well and truly here this soup is a welcome addition to any meal and is very quick to make once you have the ingredients 🙂 As a trained chef I was taught the French style method of cooking and…

How To Cook Steak Perfectly?

How To Cook Steak Perfectly?

Almost all meat-eaters love to eat a nicely cooked steak and often they don’t get it served just how they like it when dining out in restaurants. If you follow these simple steps you can cook your piece of steak in the comfort of your…

Baked Honey Glazed Chicken

Baked Honey Glazed Chicken

This dish is quick and easy and is a simple way to serve chicken when you don’t have a lot of time. It also tastes pretty good and it’s a delicious way to cook chicken. Utensils 1 x frying pan, 1 x oven roast dish,…

Culinary Mirepoix

Culinary Mirepoix

Mirepoix (pronunciation: meer-PWAH) is an aromatic flavour vegetable base made from a variety of vegetables such as onions, celery and carrots to name a few. Mirepoix can be used as a base when roasting joints of meat and can also be used as a base…

Classic Sherry trifle

Classic Sherry trifle

Growing up this dessert was a firm favourite among the whole family.  Of course, as children, we only ever got this dessert on special occasions, which to my mind was never nearly often enough! In later years when mum became a diabetic, I tweaked her…

How To Make Healthy Homemade Granola

How To Make Healthy Homemade Granola

A few weeks ago I started to make my own version of granola as my teenage daughter had started eating it for breakfast. She found the shop bought brands too sweet and when we checked the ingredients we were both astonished to find more than…