About Clodagh McKenna

Clodagh McKenna is the host of Irish Food Trails on PBS and a regular contributor to The Daily Meal. She’s the author of nearly half a dozen cookbooks, including her most recent titles, Clodagh’s Kitchen Diaries and Homemade, which won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award. An Irish native, McKenna trained as a chef at Ballymaloe Cookery School and started a series of farmers’ markets throughout Ireland. @clodagh_mckenna

Spicy cranberry sauce in a grey pottery bowl on a white tablecloth, beside a serving spoon.

Spicy Cranberry Sauce

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A sweet-tart little condiment to slather on everything on your holiday table. It gets a little bit of heat from ginger, cloves, cinnamon, and chile.

Four individual servings of cardamom panna cotta with rhubarb on a serving tray.

Cardamom Panna Cotta with Rhubarb

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A lovely and light refresher with a tangy topping, steeped with warming cardamom. Easier to make than you might think, this elegant panna cotta is a simple stunner.

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

Fancy Tuna Melt

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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.

A pitcher of Pimm's cup, with a half-filled glass and a vase of flowers on either side of it.

Pimm’s Cup for Wimbledon

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A sprightly summer cocktail, this vibrant variant on a Pimm’s Cup is a wham bam grand slam of booze, orange, lemon, cucumber, mint, and lemon-lime soda.

A white bowl filled with spiced red cabbage set on white linens with a spoon resting inside.

Spiced Red Cabbage

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