For the love of food

‘I am essentially a beginner,’ Aoife Mc announces to her readers, ‘so please don’t get offended if I cook things for too long, display ignorance of the lesser known members of the food family or blend ingredients that make your culinary cuticles ache.’ This is not your usual foodie blog, oh no.

Rather, I can has cook? is a delightfully personal journey into this Dubliner’s kitchen, diarising triumphs and frustrations as she begins an affair with cooking. There are no stuffy recipes here. Aoife writes about things like ‘Lola-Lu’s Lamb Tagine’, ‘Tabouleh – kinda’, and ‘The Daily Spud’s Spud Cakes’, all of which also give her a chance to gush about the fellow foodies who give her inspiration. And like a dusting of icing sugar on top, she links her recipes to the music she’s listening to at the time, so that we might enjoy cooking these lovely meals just as she does. It’s delectable.