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Recipes: Try banana and chocolate, ginger or lemon cake, or raspberry and chocolate muffins
If you are feeling a bit browned off with the winter weather, why not treat yourself to a session of comfort baking? There are many simple cakes that can be made with the minimum amount of fuss.
Restaurant review: Lucinda O'Sullivan returns to the China Sichuan
When you return to a place where you have previously had a bad experience and reported on it, there is an element of stepping into the dragon's den.
Healthy eating: Susan Jane White says fight the ageing process with alfalfa
Is ageing inescapable? Unfortunately, yes. Scientists have yet to discover eternal life. What science does know, however, is that we can certainly change the speed at which our broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
Restaurant review: Paolo Tullio at The Loft, Arklow
It's surprising how many new restaurants are opening, considering the tough trading conditions. There's a prevailing opinion among commentators on Ireland's catering trade that the restaurant business is healthier in Dublin city than elsewhere in the country.
Recipes: Create sweet memories with these treats from Lilly Higgins
When I first started writing my blog, it was a way of sharing recipesand making myself cook even more.
Tiffin
This is one of the easiest things ever to make and requires no baking. This recipe is gorgeous and a tin full of tiffin makes a really nice present. We used to be allowed to make this when we were small with leftover biscuits from Christmas.
Chocolate Peanut-Butter Cake
Oh, cake of cakes! Covering the inside of the tins with chopped nuts adds a lovely texture and flavour, but you can just use flour if you like.
Peanut-Butter and Sesame Cookies
I'm always looking for The perfect peanut-butter cookie. It's a great cookie recipe to have, and this one has an ace up its sleeve.
Recipes: Brenda Costigan says baking at home is simple and saves you money
The art of bread baking is one of the oldest of crafts. In ancient Rome and Athens, it was a sign of prosperity to have white bread to eat, although Plato and some of his pals felt that wholemeal bread was a symbol of the simple, good life of the countryside.
Restaurant review: Lucinda O'Sullivan at Pop Up Pyg
Sex and the City seemed alive and well at Pop Up Pyg in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre as I observed a pair of Carrie Bradshaw lookalikes engrossed in themselves and one or 10 cosmopolitans each.
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