Elora understands flavour’s and growing up in Spain she got to taste some of the worlds best food. Also her mum Concha is one of the finest cooks I have ever met, so here is one of Elora’s favourite Galician flavours.
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The Devil rides again in Oldfarm! Time: 10 am to 6 pm Location: OldFarm, Redwood, Lorrha, Co. Tipperary (only 2 hours from Dublin!) Investment: Only €125 (Booking €35) which includes refreshments and lots of fantastic food to eat at lunch and dinner!! Contact: John@path.ie 086 6635100 or 018105970 Margaret (Oldfarm) 086 8100 125 Facebook Event I had a brilliant time at the last BBQ meeting and teaching some lovely people how to cook a better and safer BBQ. Well we are doing it again and I will be cooking some wonderful new recipes this time that I have been
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Pink Lady apples are my favourite apple. They were created Western Australia in 1979, and are a natural, cross-pollination between Golden Delicious and Lady William apples. So I decided to make a quick and easy apple sauce with them. Ingredients: 2 Pink Lady apples A teaspoon of brown sugar 150ml of white wine 150ml of water small knob of butter Cooking Method: Peel and core the apples Put the trimmings into a small saucepan and add the water and brown sugar , bring to the boil and reduce the water by half. Cut the apple pieces into a small dice and add to
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Sometimes theres nothing nicer than a stew, I love this tasty and warming dish as it’s quick to cook and full of tender chicken and vegetables all lounging in a rich sauce. I made this up in a moment of crisis Elora was starving hungry and wanted a real dinner not a snack. So I scanned the fridge and vegetable store and found some great ingredients. Ingredients: 8 chicken thighs boned 1 medium aubergine (finely diced) 3-4 large potatoes (chopped into 1cm dice and rinsed) 2 medium onions (finely diced) 4 cloves of garlic (crushed) frozen peas fresh flat leaf
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Most of us love ice cream but have never made it. But its really easy!. Now, a good ice cream maker is a couple of hundred euros at least, these machines freeze and mix the ice cream at the same time so you get a beautifully smooth texture. But if you have a freezer and have room for a decent sized bowl you can make your own Homemade Ice Cream and with a little elbow grease, it will be very smooth. I will make a video showing how to do this soon I promise and show how to make the
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These are really easy and beautiful desserts. A puff pastry heart filled with a strawberry cream and freshly chopped strawberries finished with a strawberry coulis. I used pre rolled frozen puff pastry, its cheap and easy to use no messing around making the stuff Now at the moment you can get some good deals on fresh strawberries so it won’t be to expensive, but my tip is to smell the strawberries before you buy. If they smell like ripe strawberries then they will taste nice too. You can also buy frozen strawberries to make the coulis, and I would cook these a
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk5--M6_uTI] Location: Skerries Mills Farmers Market – Skerries, Co Dublin, Ireland - Directions – Time: Saturdays 10am to 4pm – Outdoors What can you find there?: vegetables, pastries, meat, cakes, flowers, plants, crepes, preserves, fresh baked goods, crafts, and more! Facilities: Car Parking Facilities (FOC), picturesque surroundings, indoor coffee shop, 5 minutes walk from Skerries sea front, friendly atmosphere Farmers markets are wonderful places to visit and shop for your local products. I love the friendly atmosphere, the homemade goods and the fresh vegetables that abound in them. People who love food, creating and sharing their skills and knowledge in
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I showed you a week ago, a lovely place called Loughshinny, where you can get beautiful lobsters. It is amazing how many ingredients and food are available in nature in very surprising places. As we like the odd adventure from week to week, we explored a beautiful part of Ireland: Connemara. The visit to some close relatives end up into a mussel hunt on a glorious Sunday morning. When we say adventure, we really mean it… as it was more of a treasure hunt or mission impossible than a relaxing walk on the beach. Stuck in the mud with wellies one
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Now my mum denies this, but me and my sisters all agree that mum served us Boiled Bacon and Cabbage at least 4 times a week as we grew up. I became sick of it!. As a child, to see ‘Hairy’ bacon on my plate was enough to give me nightmares.”Eat it” my dad would boom “It will give you hair’s on your chest”. Well, he was right as I have a hairy chest now but I still have issue’s with Bacon and Cabbage. Firstly hair on food is just wrong – Thankfully I haven’t seen that on the meat in
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We all love BBQ’s with lots of friends or just the family it always seems special. But we all have at one time seen or heard of food that has been burnt on the outside and raw in the middle. And that is potentially lethal or at the very least inedible. So I like to ‘Poach’ my chicken, sausages, ribs if big and some pork cuts basically any meat that has to have clear juices to be safe to eat. Poaching also keeps the meat juicy and tender as it does not dry out meat like roasting can do. You
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