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THE food we gravitate to, the food we need, at two o’clock in the morning isn’t necessarily the food we’d want at a more sensible hour of the day or night. If you’re looking for something to eat at that time, odds are that it will arrive in you stomach on top of a lot of other stuff that’s been ingested – and may take its revenge in the not to distant future.

"I DON'T serve plain pasta and my kids would think it was weird," says Claire Thomson, family food ambassador for the National Trust, chef and mum-of-three.

SUMMERTIME is officially just around the corner and as we have experienced some warm, sunny days recently, the barbecues are already being dragged out of the sheds and fired up, ready for the season ahead.

ONE of Beavertown's seasonal offerings is back on the shelves, a blood orange IPA, whose name is impossible to say without putting on a broad Yorkshire accent.

PRE-HEAT the oven and get going.

WOULDN'T this be nice with a cup of tea?

Fifteens must be the easiest sweet treat to make. No baking, very little stirring and just some chilling.

FANCY a slice of Barmbrack with a cup of tea? Try this simple recipe.

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WHENEVER you hear the colour green mentioned in connection with beer, it usually involves that rather cringeworthy practice, predominant in the US, of dying beer green on St Patrick's Day.

Turley's Bar, Moneyslane Road, Ballyward, Castlewellan, Co Down Tel 028 4065 0855 REMEMBER that Sunday when we had our summer? Glorious wasn't it? Tops off or, 'taps aff' as we say around my way, streaky fake tan everywhere, the smell of burnt sausages in the air as barbecues were dragged from their winter hiding place.

THE Easter holidays are fast approaching, a two-week stretch that's always the first big test of the year as to how we can entertain the children for days on end.

HAVE a cursory glance at the Easter treats available online and in the supermarkets and you might be surprised by what's on offer.

I've never been one for technology.

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Brown’s Restaurant and Champagne Lounge Bonds Hill Derry BT47 6DW 028 7134 5180 I’M NOT really one to talk about the sacrifices I make.

YOU will find a brachiosaurus moseying through an asparagus forest, a tiger surveying a field of Szechuan peppers, and a duck bobbing about with a load of cherry tomatoes in Thomasina Miers's new recipe collection, Home Cook.

THIS week’s recipes are great for a Sunday lunch, especially at this time of year.

COFFEE and beer have a lot in common.