Breakfast

1-2-3 Banana Pancakes

This isn’t so much a recipe as an idea. I love pancakes, but pancakes don’t love me. This is a healthier, faster alternative that keeps me full for ages. I make these a lot at the weekend, dotted with chocolate chips and drizzled in syrup and nut butter. If I make them mid week I…

Breakfast Röstis

A hearty base for fried eggs, bacon, roasted tomatoes -all your favourite savoury breakfast items. It’s important to work quickly here or the potatoes will oxidise and turn black. If you want to make them the night before be sure to partially bake them off first or the potatoes will be an unappealing shade of…

Ricotta Hotcakes With Honeycomb Butter

A light fluffy pancake, nice for a summer weekend breakfast. I got this recipe at Ballymaloe via Bill Granger. You could use bought honeycomb for the butter or do a different topping altogether but I really like to make it. The cakes themselves are soft and delicate so they can handle, and need,  the sweet…