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Michelle Darmody: How to bake spiced sweet potato cake (opens the original)
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Michelle Darmody is a baking expert and writer, as well as an award-winning author. Michelle works across food education, sustainability and food policy and has a Doctorate in Culinary Arts. Sweet potatoes are remarkably good value at this time of year. They are a good baking ingredient as they are sweet and soft and add texture as well as fibre to your cakes. I find it handy to bake them in their skins then scoop the inside out and add it to cake and biscuit batters. Wash the potatoes and prick
Irish schoolchildren deserve the sort of food others are eating (opens the original)
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The Irish school meals scheme has come under intense scrutiny this week following a report released by the Department of Social Protection which funds the scheme. The report shows that there are some serious problems to be addressed. A nutritional review found only 7% of meals meet all five basic nutrition standards set out by the department, with only 14% containing the required amount of fruit and vegetables, and over half of meals not including vegetables at all. Around a fifth of meals were
Michelle Darmody: How to follow a magical process and bake your own bread rolls (opens the original)
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Michelle Darmody is a baking expert and writer, as well as an award-winning author. Michelle works across food education, sustainability and food policy and has a Doctorate in Culinary Arts. Last week, when I was tired and exhausted, I realised I had forgotten to get bread rolls. They were needed early the next day and the shops were already shut. I resentfully, and sleepily, started to gather the ingredients to make a batch of rolls myself. I used a fast action yeast, as time was of the essence
Michelle Darmody: How to bake your own Fig Rolls at home (opens the original)
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Michelle Darmody is a baking expert and writer, as well as an award-winning author. Michelle works across food education, sustainability and food policy and has a Doctorate in Culinary Arts. I love these biscuits which are stuffed with sticky figs all deliciously encased in crisp, slightly spiced biscuit dough. Figs are unusual, with a strange way of reproducing. Today most figs are bred to ripen without intervention from a fig wasp, but wild varieties still rely on an ancient symbiotic relation
Michelle Darmody: How to bake a delicious blackberry pie (opens the original)
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Michelle Darmody is a baking expert and writer, as well as an award-winning author. Michelle works across food education, sustainability and food policy and has a Doctorate in Culinary Arts. Purple, inky blackberries are ripening on their scratchy briars this month and next. If you are lucky enough to live near a bramble patch you will be well rewarded for going out with a bowl or bucket to fill. Blackberries are delicious when added into lots of different cakes, bakes and desserts. They are als
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