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Cooking culture Farmhouse cheese Farmhouse butter

Sea vegetables Cooking an Irish feast Potato dishes

Main dishes Delicious dessert Irish baking

Cooking with Irish produce

Adapt the following recipes to include Irish produce.

Try using Gabriel cheese in place of cheddar in this fondue and serve it with chunks of soda bread.

• Ploughman's fondue

Replace the cheddar with Gabriel cheese and use Irish Desmond instead of the parmesan for a cheese sauce full of Irish flavours. Serve the sauce over a big bowl of fried leeks. You could also try pouring the sauce over a mound of mashed potato, sprinkling over a little extra grated Gabriel and finishing under a hot grill until golden and bubbling.

• 'Any kind of cheese' sauce

This recipe uses dried dulse, another popular Irish seaweed.

• Clam chowder with potatoes and dulse

Sea lettuce, another edible seaweed, is used in this recipe.

• Prawns and fresh seaweed tempura

Don't worry if you can't get hold of the aforementioned Irish ingredients. There are plenty of delicious Irish dishes that rely on basic ingredients such as potatoes. Celebrate St Patrick's Day in true Irish style with one or more of the dishes below.

• Irish potato cakes
• Pea and spring onion champ
• Winter vegetable colcannon

• Irish beef stew
• Roasted garlic and thyme poussin with champ
• Turkey breast with leeks, mushrooms and colcannon cakes
• Boxty pancakes with black pudding, bacon and mustard cream
• Fillet of beef with stout and oysters

• Irish whiskey cream cheesecake

• Porter cake
• Tony’s mum’s soda bread