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

A black dutch oven full of black bean chili con carne with a chopped salad and corn chips.

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Delicious Recipes

Woman holding a jar of balsamic fig jam with both hands

Preserve

The Harvest

A apple cobbler in a cream Le Creuset skillet drizzled with butterscotch sauce and a scoop of ice cream.

Sweets

For My Sweet

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A copper frying pan full of roast lamb gravy. A whisk sits inside the frying pan and fresh rosemary if beside the pan.

How to Make Roast Lamb Gravy (From Pan Juices)

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 enamel cast iron roasting pan full of smashed duck fat roast potatoes. A bowl of truffle salt sits on top.

Smashed duck fat roast potatoes with truffle salt

A Greek roast chicken in a black cast iron skillet with potatoes and fresh herbs.

Greek-Style Whole Roast Chicken

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

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

I’m a soda bread girl from way back – even before I met my Irishman. Just after I finished school, a friend of mine had an Irish boyfriend who used…

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

All the Festive Sweets

MO RE SWEETS

A tart tin full of homemade Bailey's Truffles. A single truffle is off to one side with a bite eaten from it.

Boozy Baileys Chocolate Truffles

Apple and Blackberry Crumble

flatlay of a tray of baked biscoff cheesecake slice cut into squares with a bite taken out of one piece

Baked Biscoff Cheesecake Slice (Speculoos cheesecake bars)

Maple Pecan Shortbread Cookies

Dutch Oven Dinners

Dutch oven recipes

A black Le Creuset cast iron Dutch oven with a fish pie in it. A serving has been scooped out revealing the creamy seafood mornay inside.

Creamy Seafood Pie with Colcannon Mash

A black cast iron Dutch oven of beef and Guinness stew. A Couple of pieces of bread are sitting in the side of the pot and fresh rosemary sits in a small bowl to one side.

Slow Cooked Beef and Guinness Stew (Dutch Oven)

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

Slow-Cooked Lamb Shoulder with Herbs de Provence

frypan of slow cooked beef stroganoff with black pepper pappardelle

Big Batch: Slow Cooked Beef Stroganoff (Dutch oven)

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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 bowl of bright green mush peas sit on a grey cloth. A spoon is in the bowl.

My Super Simple Mushy Peas Recipe

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

Easy Blueberry & Almond Cobbler

A loaf of applesauce bread cut with a slice beside. A bottle of milk sits in the background.

Spiced AppleSauce Bread with a Pecan Crumb Top!

Preserving the Seasons

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

SIDES

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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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