Home Kitchen

Shortlisted for An Post Irish Awards Cookbook of the Year 2023

Become a more confident, creative and instinctive home cook, with inspiration, tips, and delicious recipes from much-loved Irish cook Donal Skehan.

In his new book, Donal brings us into the heart of his kitchen, showing us how he cooks for his family and what inspires him - from his granny's handwritten recipes and his Irish heritage to his time living in LA. Donal shares delicious recipes from his many experiences and travels, as well as his decades as a home cook, that you'll want to make time and again.

Donal has all aspects of the week covered with chapters such as make-ahead Sundays, everyday dinners, weekday rush, slow-cooking weekend wins, and scrumptious desserts.

Recipes include:

Cauliflower Mac 'n' Cheese with Chorizo Crumbs

Sheet-Pan Sticky Korean Popcorn Chicken with Rice and Slaw

Slow Cooker Butter Chicken

Prawn and Dill Rolls with Wild Garlic Mayo

Basque Burnt Cheesecake with Cherries

Irish Coffee, Hazelnut and Chocolate Tiramisu

Packed with amazing recipes, tips and tricks, this book will help you get the most out of every week and learn to truly love your own home kitchen.

The trademark excellent recipes are there with great photography, but adding to its value as a book to curl up with is the fascinating introduction - a poignant account of his and his wife Sofie's journey from Howth, Co Dublin, to LA and back again, learning along the way lots of lessons including the value of his culinary heritage. -- Sunday Independent
Master of comforting, delicious cooking. -- Image magazine

Donal Skehan has ten years under his belt as a TV host and award winning food writer. A dad of two, Donal knows a thing or two about juggling parenthood, work and cooking! He is the author of ten cookbooks; Everyday Cook (2021), which won cookbook of the year at the 2021 An Post Irish Book Awards, being the most recent and Fresh (2015) being named as one of Good Food magazine's Top 10 cookbooks of the year. He's a regular host on ITV's This Morning, the star of cookery shows on RTE, The Food Network & HBO Max, and has his own hit YouTube channel with over 1 million subscribers. Donal was born and raised in Dublin and has recently moved from LA back to his hometown in Ireland.

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