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April 1, 2026

Carol Kirkwood, a “Bloostery’ day ♥️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for the last time

February 27, 2026

Ballymaloe Cookery. Breakfast spread with freshly baked soda breads and sourdough with our Jersey butter and homemade jams.

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Breakfast spread with freshly baked soda breads and sourdough with our Jersey butter and homemade jams.

February 17, 2026

A Pancake Extravaganza by Rachel Allen

Tuesday is pancake time. In all their shapes and forms, they are a real favourite in our household. It isn’t just our children who get excited – I adore pancakes and love an excuse to make a real feast of them. There’s something so pleasingly simple, so supremely comforting about a perfectly browned pancake, unchallenging and uncomplicated, but always delicious.

We’ll make all different sorts of pancakes on different years, and often on the same day. I love thin pancakes – they’re called crepes in France, where they’re usually made with some buckwheat flour. I like to eat them rolled up with lemon and sugar, or the perennial favourite, Nutella! We like to make thin pancakes as a savoury treat too, omitting the sugar and making a creamy mushroom filling with bacon and perhaps some Gruyere cheese.

If you’d like to make your pancakes a little more elaborate than just a squeeze of lemon and sugar, you can try this divine orange butter recipe, opposite, that we often make at the cookery school.

At other times, we like to make big, fluffy American pancakes, served with rashers and plenty of maple syrup. I’ve written recipes for blueberry and lemon pancakes in these pages before, as well as in a number of my cookbooks.

The Italian recipe here is a totally different take on pancakes that I’ve made on Pancake Tuesday in previous years. It was inspired by a conversation I had with the great Italian chef, Aldo Zilli. He told me a wonderful story about his mother using light pancakes as an alternative to pasta in certain dishes, and I’ve discovered that they work wonderfully with rich tomato sauces. The Italian baked pancakes with tomato sauce recipe, opposite, uses the pancakes in place of lasagne sheets, which adds a fluffiness to the dish. It’s a perfect family dish and would make a great centrepiece to a Shrove Tuesday dinner table.

Tip

Adding melted butter to the pancake batter will make a real difference to the pancakes’ flavour and texture. It also makes it possible to cook them without having to grease the pan every time.

Pancake Recipes:

http://www.rachelallen.com/blog/pancake-extravaganza

February 3, 2026

Flahavans porridge with Keelings fruits, nut butter and a dollop of Glenisk yogurt.

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Starting well with @keelingsfruits, @FlahavansIRL, @wyldsson nut butter and a dollop of yogurt. No need to mess with this combo

January 11, 2026

Dairygold Avocado Breakfast Bake

For a protein-packed brekkie, made with just three ingredients, try this tasty avocado breakfast bake.

Ingredients

2 large avocados
4 eggs
4 rashers

Instructions

First, fry the rashers, allow to cool and set aside. (For a healthy option, place your rashers under the grill and cook to your liking)

De-stone and cut the avocados in half, scooping out a little of the flesh so the eggs have room to sit.

Crack an egg into the centre of each avocado half.

Carefully place onto a baking tray so that the eggs dont spill out of the centre.

Cook in a pre-heated oven at 205°C/400°F for about 15 minutes, or until the eggs are cooked to your liking.

Top each one with two rashers, and season with salt and pepper.

Who said eating healthy had to be boring! – See more at: http://www.yourdairygold.ie/food-made-better/Avocado-Breakfast-Bake-

December 16, 2025