If Easter makes you long for a succulent, rosy pink leg of lamb rather than a chocolate egg, get your order in for the first of the new season’s spring lamb from Fieldstown Farm in Kilsallaghan, north Co Dublin.
These babies, fed only on milk, grass, home-grown barley, and other GM-free ingredients, won’t be ready until mid-May, but will be worth waiting for. Padraic and Brid McMahon’s farm sells half (€95) or whole lambs (€165), butchered to your specific requirements, and delivered, along with a jar of their own mint sauce and a recipe pack, to addresses in in the greater Dublin area (whole lamb minimum for delivery). Customers from further afield can collect their order. See www.irishfood.ie, or tel: 01-8400793.