At a smart dinner party last weekend for a world renowned wine writer, our host proudly announced that the meat for the meal had cost just 12 euros, there were 9 of us and we had eaten very well.  We had polished off large plates of shin of beef stew with fluffy mashed potato.  It [...]

A few weeks ago on 20th September, past students from 14 countries world wide converged on Ballymaloe Cookery School to help us to celebrate 25 years.
As ever it doesn’t seem that long ago since we converted some farm buildings into a little cookery school and tentatively put an ad in the Cork Examiner and the [...]

Let’s go foraging and then have a dinner party to celebrate.  I pick and gather ‘wild things’ year round but this really is the best season as far as variety is concerned.  On the last spring tide my mother in law, Myrtle Allen, showed us how to gather carrageen moss off the little rocks in [...]