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We are friends who love making simple food look beautiful. We hope our recipes will inspire you to get into the kitchen this season. Aoife McElwain works in front of the camera writing the recipes and styling the food, while Mark Duggan works behind the camera to make sure it all looks as delicious as possible. We work with editors such as Killian Broderick and music supervisors like Nialler9 to make sure that our finished videos look and sound as smart as possible. We work with brands like Glenisk and Folláin to help them create delicious video content for their online platforms. When we're not making videos, we write a weekly column called Speedy Suppers on Thursdays in The Irish Independent. Aoife writes the recipes and styles the food while Mark takes the photographs.  
20 May
These recipes first appeared in The Irish Independent's Insider magazine on Thursday 15th May._MG_0148 At forkful, we love when weekends provide us with the time to indulge in a bit of baking and battering. We became better bakers (and batterers) when we realised the key ingredient to an enjoyable cake is to take the pressure off the baker. So take your time and remember: you’re not on Masterchef. A leisurely slot of working with flour, milk and eggs on a Saturday morning can provide you with some luscious treats by lunchtime.
11 May
balsamic lamb These recipes originally appeared in INSIDER magazine in The Irish Independent on Thursday the 8th of May.  After feeling responsible for cursing the weather on our first of May column, this week our Insider recipes were specifically designed to be adaptable to our unpredictable spring/summer (sprummer?) weather. Our granola uses the jewels of pomegranate which help make dishes beautiful all year round and our lamb dish brings summer flavours to the comfort of a roast dinner.
02 May
Banana Ricotta on Toast These recipes originally appeared in INSIDER magazine in The Irish Independent on Thursday the 1st of May.  The week leading up the 1st of May had been gloriously sunny. Hesitant whispers about the return of summer were heard throughout the country after a few consecutive weekends of sun. We thought we would celebrate that for our column on the 1st of May by embracing the sunshine with summer recipes. Only for the 1st of May, the day of publication of our recipes in INSIDER in The Irish Independent, to turn out to be the grossest and soggiest of days this year. So. We're sorry for cursing the summer.
25 Apr
Avocado Brunch We are really pleased to share the news that forkful has joined the team at INSIDER magazine, a new lifestyle supplement with The Irish Independent on Thursdays. In our new weekly column, the forkful team will be bringing you our current squeeze on the recipe front and share with you the food that's currently inspiring us. We'll be talking about our triumphs and failures in the kitchen, and the Irish ingredients that makes us love rolling up our sleeves and get cooking. INSIDER's first issue appeared yesterday in The Irish Independent and we were tickled pink to be in the same pages as opinionated funny folk Colm Tobin and Carole Tobin, sassy style gurus such as Corina Gaffney and, of course, our forkful collaborator Nialler9. Pick up the magazine every Thursday in The Irish Independent.
05 Mar

A friend was telling us about an early spring trip to Sicily where they were picking ripe and plump blood...

13 Feb

There are few luxuries we enjoy more than a leisurely breakfast on a bright morning. Breakfast is one of our...

30 Jan

January can be cold, rough and long. We like to get through it by making it as delicious as possible....

11 Dec

Christmas has snuck up on us once again and this year we'll be giving our friends and family batches of...

04 Dec

This latest forkful features the wonderful pear; the fruit that lingers through autumn into deep winter, keeping our walnuts company...

27 Nov

We are so into winter. We have the bounty of autumn in our belly and are keeping warm with soups...