Beef, beer and blue cheese pot pies

Wild garlic pesto

Beef and Irish stout stew.

Chocolate stout truffles

Christmas pudding truffles

Irish stout gingerbread

Caramel apple and Irish whiskey clafoutis

Colcannon is a traditional Irish potato dish eaten at Halloween.

The traditional full Irish breakfast gets a makeover as a salad.

Roast cod with pesto, chorizo and cherry tomatoes

Chocolate biscuit cake

Orange and cardamom jelly with candied pistachios

Hot cross buns with cranberries and apricots

Irish nettle soup

When you make Irish soda bread, folklore says you should cross the top to let the fairies out.

Salted Nutella and banana pancakes

Marmalade pudding cake

Scotch eggs are tipped to be trendy in 2012 – here’s my easy oven baked version

Mustard and herb lamb chops with honey dressing

Caraway seed cake is an old-fashioned favorite in Ireland

Boxty is a traditional Irish potato cake – my version uses bacon and scallions

Cream of fennel soup with honey and thyme