For me, food is a celebration. I almost prefer spending long hours in my little galley kitchen preparing and cooking a meal over actually eating it. I get buried in the dazzling scents of ingredients and the wafts of heat …
Food & Drink
Making mince pies and mulled wine
Cook up a winter storm with these Christmas recipes
Some mince pie recipes will tell you to leave your filling to sit for 24 hours before you really get stuck into it. Some have the audacity to suggest leaving it for even longer (up to a fortnight). This is …
How to food shop like an anarchist
Ella Walsh outlines how to get excited about cooking again
A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling rather down about my own cooking abilities, given that I live with two professional pizza chefs who regularly whip up delicious, homemade meals with apparent ease. I lived with an ever-present feeling …
Switching up your weekly shop
Ten under-appreciated items every kitchen deserves
When doing a grocery shop, I like to look for items that give me versatility in the kitchen. Having done extensive food research as someone who happens to eat every day, I have compiled a list of ten items that …
Making Mezze
Alfie Fletcher on how to make Middle Eastern sharing plates
Mezze is a table creaking under the weight of mismatched plates. Mezze is colours, glistening with olive oil and flecked with herbs and spices. Mezze is competitive: who can wipe more hummus onto their pitta; whose elbows can beat away …
Grow green quarantine friends
Anastasia Fedosova details how to start your own home herb garden
“No way am I doing that!” I thought back in March. Days went on, months crept by. My friends were spread around the globe, shops and restaurants remained closed, all social activities were moved online and I had nothing to …
Isn’t that cuppa just Tea-rrific?
Adam Balchin’s guide to the nation’s favourite hot beverage
If there’s one thing the Irish can coalesce around, it’s tea. Some might even argue that it’s the true elixir of life, not whiskey, as the Gaelige word may suggest. It’s no surprise the Irish love tea. In fact, we …
An ode to outdoor dining
A look back at one of life’s biggest upsides under level three, now just a mere memory
Although outdoor dining has recently, and rather abruptly, been closed off to us, I think it’s fair to say that many of us had been surprised at how enjoyable the newfound dining format had been. Previously deemed incompatible with Dublin’s …
Making milk
Is it worth ditching the carton and making your own plant-based milk?
The day before writing this article, my flatmates and I received a six-pack of Oatly, Barista Edition obviously, from Amazon, so I feel a bit cheeky asking you to try and make your own plant milk, but here we go.…
What have we learnt from the gatherings at the Powerscourt Steps
Large outdoor gatherings have been symptoms of a lack of public spaces for people to meet for an outdoors drink in the nation’s capital
Outside the Powerscourt shopping centre, a short stroll from Trinity’s campus, many young people have been gathering by the steps to meet and drink. Social distancing is but a distant thought. The wide steps have long been a popular resting …