Seasonal Recipes & Cast Iron Cooking - The Irishman's Wife

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

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Delicious Recipes

A tray of balsamic roasted strawberries just out of the oven.

Preserve

The Harvest

A skillet blueberry cobbler with three scoops of vanilla ice cream in the center.

Sweets

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A rare medium rare roast beef being carved on a timber board. A bottle of Angullong red wine sits behind.

12 Roast Beef Sides To Serve With Your Roast Dinner this Weekend!

A large white enamel baking dish with a baked bolognese pasta bake in it. A glass of wine, a knife and some basil sit beside.

Slow Cooked Bolognese Pasta Bake

A bowl of sweet potato mash with a spoon in it. A tin of sweet smoked paprika sits in the background.

Creamy Sweet Potato Mash

A black Dutch oven with a loaf of homemade bread in it.

Easy Dutch Oven Bread (Hunter’s Bread!)

Guinness Bread

Here’s a quick and easy loaf of soda bread to whip up, with no yeast, and it is super delicious alongside a hearty stew on a cold night. Oh, and…

IRiSH Faves

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

Traditional Full Irish Breakfast (fry up)

creamy colcannon mash in a red Le Creuset pot

Colcannon Mash – Creamy Irish Mashed Potatoes with Cabbage

A black cast iron pot of slow cooked, Irish lamb Stew on a bench

An Irishman’s Wife’s Traditional Irish Stew Recipe

Slow-cooked Favorites

MORE Dutch oven recipes

Slow Cooked Beef Curry

A close up of a Chicken bacon a leek pot pie with a puff pasty top in an oval copper dish. Small black kitchen scissors and a few sprigs of fresh thyme sit beside.

Chicken, Bacon & Leek Pot Pie

The cooked beef bourguignon pie with a serving spooned out of it.

Beef Cheek Bourguignon Pie

Slow-Cooked Roast Lamb Shoulder with Herbs de Provence

Craving Dessert?

MORE SWEETS RECIPES

A white skillet with a baked cherry cobbler in it. A scoop of vanilla ice cream is melting on the top of the cobbler.

Super Easy Summer Cherry Cobbler

A cast iron roasting pan of speculoos tiramisu. A bite has been taken out of one end with a spoon.

Boozy Speculoos Tiramisu with Biscoff Cookie Butter

A metal box of golden Irish buttermilk scones.

Easy Irish Buttermilk Scones

Apple and Blackberry Crumble

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MORE BBQ Recipes

A white shallow casserole cast iron pan full of prawns, oysters, bugs, seafood sauces and lemon wedges.

How To Make A Simple Seafood Platter

A white cast iron pan with bacon and cheese rolls baked in it.

Cheese and Bacon Rolls

A large grey bowl of orzo pasta salad with a serving spoon in it. A split open burrata sits on top with pesto drizzled on top.

Orzo Pesto Pasta Salad

A stack of smokey chipotle corn ribs drizzled with lime mayonnaise and scattered coriander leaves

Smoky Sweet Corn Ribs in the Oven (Mexican Corn Riblets)

Preserving the Seasons

MORE PRESERVES

Balsamic Roasted Strawberries

A jar of dehydrated strawberries on a bench surrounded by fresh berries and foliage.

How to make dehydrated strawberries (with a dehydrator)

A black garlic clove cut to reveal it's black interior.

How to use black garlic (plus 4 black garlic recipes to try)

A jar of lemon and passionfruit curd on a wire cooling rack surrounded by small lemons and more curd.

Lemon and Passionfruit Curd (Passionfruit Butter Recipe)

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

ROAST NIGHT

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

SIDES

skillet

Behind the recipes

Hi, I’m Emma

Slow Cook + Photo Taker + 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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