Good food worth gathering around.

Cozy Dutch oven recipes, seasonal comfort food, and enamel cast iron cooking from a country kitchen

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Slow-Cooked Faves

MORE Dutch oven recipes

IRISH FAVORITES

Craving Dessert?

MORE SWEETS RECIPES

Roast it Good!

MORE roast dinner Recipes

Behind the recipes

Hi, I’m Emma

Cast Iron Cook + Recipe Creator + Shopkeeper + Wine Drinker + Mum & Wife to my Irishman

Welcome to my collection of food stories from my life in the kitchen. There are no three-page recipes here, just good food to share with others around the kitchen table.

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All About Cast Iron Cooking

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Find tonight’s dinner right here!

  • A white cast iron pot with slow-cooked Italian Pork and Nduja Rugu in it. A wooden spoon is stirring the Ragu.

DUTCH OVEN

  • A Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with some of the meat pulled apart on a timber chopping board.

ROAST NIGHT

  • A black cast iron Dutch oven with a loaf of soda bread in it and a pot of honey beside.

SIDES

  • A traditional full irish breakfast just cooked in a cast iron frypan. On a bench alongside baked beans, orange juice and brown sauce.

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Found In My Kitchen

Many of the cookware, pantry staples and kitchen favourites I use throughout The Irishman’s Wife can be found at Martha’s, our family-owned food and home store in Orange, NSW.

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