Recipes from Clodagh's Kitchen Diaries

Clodagh's Kitchen Diaries Cookbook

Clodagh’s Kitchen Diaries takes you through a cooking year month by month. Packed with advice on what to eat when and tips for preserving the harvest, her inspirational recipes include dinner party menus for special occasions; monthly soup, salad, sandwich and vegetable specials from her restaurant; and cakes for occasions such as Mother’s Day, Easter and Christmas. Think Red Velvet Cakes for Valentine’s Day, Orange and Cardamom Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, and Fish of the Month dishes. Whether it’s writing a new menu for her restaurants, developing recipes for her bakery or recreating delicious dishes found on trips abroad, Clodagh’s diary is filled with wonderful culinary adventures and tricks of the trade, shared here for the first time.

A halved fancy tuna melt with tomato and cucumber on a baguette on a piece of parchment.

Fancy Tuna Melt

A tuna melt is a tuna melt is a tuna melt, right? Uh, not exactly. This is a welcome departure from what we choked down as children.

Spiced Red Cabbage

This contains sugar and spice and everything nice. In fact, it has so much niceness in it, we want it for every special occasion.