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Wednesday 7 December 2022
Here’s an easy and adaptable recipe from Susan Jane White’s latest book, Clever Batch.
Having your own fruit trees is both a joy and a challenge.
Immature onions and homemade ratatouille are the focus from the garden this week, writes Michael Kelly.
You’ll stay for one.
Leeks often don’t grab the health headlines the way their allium cousins – garlic and onions do. But they contain most of the same flavonoids and sulfur-containing nutrients, writes Michael Kelly.
It’s a wonderful time of the year, when a simple lunch or dinner can easily be conjured up from nothing, once you have some decent sourdough bread in the bread bin, writes Michael Kelly.
Some of them literally lay an egg a day all year, contributing food for the table even when your hens have given up laying in the depths of winter, writes Michael Kelly.
Serve as a generous lunch or light dinner with a salad of peppery green leaves, writes Michael Kelly.
It’s a nice surprise to discover that what you have considered a real nuisance in the veg patch, could in fact turn out to be a blessing, writes Michael Kelly.
In a demise worthy of the cheesiest horror movie the nematodes then eat the wire worms from the inside out, writes Michael Kelly.
Your only problem in fact will be working out what to do with all those courgettes, writes Michael Kelly.
I don’t know how the poor plants will react if we skip spring altogether, writes Michael Kelly.
Food growing is a simple, practical way to really engage employees, writes Michael Kelly.
This onion marmalade recipe is a sinch to make so if by chance you still have a glut of onions from last year, writes Michael Kelly.
This week our GIY guru gives his tips on how to trick potatoes into thinking they have lots of space available to grow.
We’re coming out of our winter shell this month, writes GIY guru Michael Kelly.
Learn a skill, eat delicious things, sow a seed. Be kind to yourself, writes Michael Kelly.
I often can’t wait to get started and at least plant something – perhaps some winter salad leaves, spinach and the like, writes Michael Kelly.
As you tuck into Christmas dinner, spare a thought for the Brussels sprout grower, writes Michael Kelly.
I spent Monday hunkered down at home, waiting on The Storm Formerly Known As Hurricane Ophelia to do its worst, writes Michael Kelly.
It is only now after the first frosts that carrots and parsnips start to really sweeten up, writes Michael Kelly.
A perfect post-gym meal.
Late September means baking crumbles and pruning your blackcurrants, writes Michael Kelly.
One of the best things we ever did was to buy flasks for our kids to take hot lunches to school, writes Michael Kelly.
Onions have been revered through time, not only for their culinary use, but also for their therapeutic properties, writes Michael Kelly.
Pickled turnips might not sound all that appetising but this is delicious – promise, writes Michael Kelly.
Slug hunting is a grim task and it brings out the worst in me, writes Michael Kelly.
We’ve been enjoying the first batch of fresh beetroot from the veg patch, writes Michael Kelly.
The new potato crop is looking healthy right now, writes gardener Michael Kelly.
In a chaotic world, the veg patch is a place of such calm, writes Michael Kelly.
We occasionally get some sugarsnap peas from the polytunnel to the kitchen (if the kids don’t eat them in situ first), writes gardener Michael Kelly.
Comfrey sends its roots deep into the soil and brings up nutrients, most notably potassium, writes Michael Kelly.
Plants are bursting forward into life, producing green leaves which are nature’s great and wise spring tonic, writes Michael Kelly.
The humble onion is one of the most important and versatile vegetables of all, so much so that it’s still worth shedding a few tears over, writes Michael Kelly.
I am constantly looking for things that simplify my gardening, writes Michael Kelly.
Growing tomatoes successfully in Ireland is about cheating our climate, writes Michael Kelly.
Not all vegetables are equal if you’re space constrained, writes GIY Guru Michael Kelly.
Rich anchovy-infused cream is a lovely foil to the fresh greenness of the broccoli, writes Michael Kelly.
IT WAS REPORTED yesterday that the Government is considering suspending career breaks for teachers in response to a shortage of staff in schools around the country.
For a number of months now, schools have come under increasing pressure due to unfilled job vacancies and teacher shortages, with some principals stating that the rising cost-of-living is resulting in teachers not being able to afford to live in urban areas in particular.
As a response, a number of measures are to be advanced by Government such as the potential to suspend or amend non-statutory leave arrangements which the department states has the effect of creating a demand on substitution in schools.
However, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) said in a statement yesterday evening that “such a measure would make the profession less attractive and ultimately worsen the teacher recruitment and teacher crisis”.
So, today we want to know… Should career breaks for teachers be suspended in response to staff shortages?
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