Recipes

Summertime recipes from the Gastrogays

Better known as the Gastrogays, cookbook authors Patrick Hanlon and Russell Alford have shared delicious recipes perfect for al fresco dining

Blogging duo Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon, whose cookbook has won praise from Nigella Lawson. Picture: Philip Doyle

Russell Hanlon and Patrick Alford, who founded their popular blog Gastrogays in 2013, are food and travel writers based in Drogheda. This year the duo published their first cookbook Hot Fat via the Blasta Books project from Nine Bean Rows independent publishing house. The book focuses on all things fried, and has even won praise from the comfort food queen Nigella Lawson herself.

Here, the couple have shared some of their favourite summer recipes for you to enjoy this summer. Try them out below, and don’t forget to check out gastrogays.com for more recipe inspiration, or to get your hands on Hot Fat.