Colcannon Potato Cakes What is Colcannon? Colcannon is a classic Irish potato dish.  It is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day with all the green ingredients added.  However, it is such a wonderful comfort food, I like to cook it in the fall.  Truthfully, it’s amazing […]

Soul Cakes Soul Cakes (or “Souls”, “Soul-mass”) resembles a biscuit or a scone, with spices and currants.  In the US, you can substitute raisins if you can’t find currants at your grocers.  If you use raisins, cut them into pieces as currants are much smaller. […]

Witches Brew! Witches Brew is perfect for Halloween or as some refer to it as Samhain (Sow-in’ in Ireland, Sow-een’ in Wales, Sav-en’ in Scotland) which means summer’s end. Witches Brew is essentially hot mulled wine (spiced wine) made with red wine, spices and fruit.  […]