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Tackling food waste one 5 star event at a time. All menus are entirely bespoke and aim to showcase the finest local seasonal Irish ingredients.

Strong emphasis on changing the face of event catering. Allow me to show you how it can be done.

08/09/2025

There’s so much joy in creating a little sanctuary at home. This corner of my kitchen makes me smile every time I pass by. It's an eclectic mix of old treasures, flowers from the garden, and bits I’ve picked up at markets and antique fairs.

It’s proof that beauty at home doesn’t have to cost the earth. A second-hand frame, a jug that’s been around for years, a book or two stacked just so. It feels like a story of our lives.

A reminder that our homes can hold us, comfort us, and lift us… even in the most uncertain times. Home is where the love is.

02/09/2025

Pinch me moment: my very first printed article in today’s 📰

I wrote about something that has been sitting with me for a long time, how we use aesthetics as a marker of status and what that says about inequality in the world around us.

It was sparked in part by my own kitchen renovation. As a chef, I needed a functional, well lit space to cook, create, and work with brands. But the process made me think hard about what beauty in a home has come to mean in Ireland. We often treat aesthetics as proof of success, when in reality, it can highlight how unequal access and opportunity really are.

Food and design are never just about surface beauty. They are wrapped up in history, privilege, and access. Writing this piece gave me the space to unpick some of that, and I am grateful to the Examiner for the platform.

To see these thoughts in print feels both exciting and grounding. Thank you for printing my thoughts in today's

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41697641.html

29/08/2025

I’ve been teaching myself the basics of food photography this summer, and this is one of my first attempts. I’d love your thoughts — does it make you want to reach in and taste, or what would you change? I'm learning as I go, so every bit of feedback helps.
The linen napkin is from , who is a wonderful stockist of my beautiful Larder.

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28/08/2025

What does it take to turn a cupboard into a cookbook?

For me, it is years of cooking with what is already there.
At home with three girls, or in the middle of a wedding for 200, I have learned that the best ideas rarely come from having endless choice. They come from limits, from making something beautiful out of what you already have.

That is the heart of Larder (Blasta Books #13).
It is not glossy perfection. It is food that belongs in real kitchens, in real life, simple, soulful, and rooted in the rhythm of the everyday.

The same is true in life and in business.
Constraints do not hold us back, they push us to be inventive. Some of my best menus, and my best ideas, were born from less than perfect circumstances.

I would love to know: what is the best thing you have ever created out of just what you had?

27/08/2025

Obsessed with the simplicity of this Soda Bread. I remember the first time my granny helped me to make this. I was in my.late teens and she was in a wheelchair at that stage. I was making a mess of it and she just put her hand in the bowl, made a half turn, and all of a sudden we had a fabulous loaf ready for the oven.
My granny was an outstanding cook and housekeeper. A wonderful warm and kind, intelligent, capable woman. She endured a lot, and always remained loving. She is dead 20 years already, but I dream of her often. Her legacy lives on in all of her grandchildren and great grandchildren and I'd love to be sitting with her now, enjoying tea and sodacake.
Incidentally, her name was Lily Higgins or Mrs Higgins as everyone called her.

26/08/2025

Playing around with the new light in our home today. Baking apple cake with apples from the garden.

The recipe will be shared in a new cookbook that is being put together by

What an honour and a privilege to be involved in this project alongside some truly incredible women.

25/08/2025

My little bestie and I are collaborating again!

This time, we bring you "SERVE" as part of , and it's a collaboration between , , and

Expect an absolute treasure trove of vintage, secondhand, preloved, and reworked goodness from two queens of sustainability!
FOOD AVAILABLE TOO.

Tickets will go live this week and are €5

Time: 10am to 3pm
Place: Midleton
Date: Sunday 7th September

Arrive early to ensure you get the best pick of the day.
This is first pop up.

18/08/2025

Tonight. Bang your pots and pans to show your support for the people of Palestinenwho are being starved to death.

Tag so she can see our support.
Share far and wide.

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