Sometimes you cook in oil and it has lots of debris left in it and you end up throwing it away, well no more! This top tip will clean your oil very simply and and allow you to reuse it again. You will need: A small sieve Kitchen roll A sauce pan An empty clean bottle with a lid Steps: After cooking with your oil let it cool. Then line a small sieve with a piece of kitchen roll (I use Plenty as its the best absorbing brand) and place over a small sauce pan. Make sure the sieve is
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Sometimes its nice to share knowledge. We all benefit from sharing what we know with friends and family each of us becoming more as we gain in experience and learn new skills. This year I decided to do 6 different cookery demonstrations to share some of my skills and knowledge to anyone who is interested in food and cooking. I chose to ask Eugene McKenna @ Noyeks Newmans Kilkenny if he would like me to do some cooking at his kitchen showroom as my parents had just bought a kitchen from him and we were very happy with the quality
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Elora & I were lucky enough to attend Foodcamp at Savour Kilkenny and got to meet Colman Andrews who had written a wonderful cookery book on Irish food called “The Country Cooking of Ireland”. Colman Andrews is an American writer, editor and authority on food and wine. He co-founded Saveur magazine and is a columnist for Gourmet magazine. He is known as an expert on Spanish cuisine, particularly Catalonian food (Elora said she will be the judge of that ). Colman had been flown over from America by Falite Ireland to attend Foodcamp and take part in the ‘Great Irish
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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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[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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Where I grew up in London is one of the best places to buy a Kebab. A good Kebab is a wonderful experience, the flavour of grilled meat with freshly cut salad in pitta or Turkish flatbread and a large squeeze of lemon is just ‘beautiful’. Haringey in North London was mainly a mix of Irish, Greek, Cypriot, Turkish and English families. I was lucky to have Greek Cypriot neighbours as a child, so I learnt about charcoal grilled foods long before I heard of a BBQ. I learned to love fresh Greek bread ‘village style’, a large round loaf always
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During a trip across Ireland to Galway we went through a town called Castlerea in Co. Roscommon and spotted this amazing little pub called Hells Kitchen. I had to investigate this place and found something inside that you wouldn’t find in any other pub in the world. The staff in the pub were lovely and friendly and it was so clean it put most hospitals to shame. Unfortunately I was driving and couldn’t have a real drink, alas coke was all I had. But I will be back to Hells Kitchen and recommend it to everyone else. lol wait and
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I love lobsters and happen to be lucky enough to live in a harbour where the most amazing lobsters live and get to watch the lobster boats sail in and out every day. When I first came to Ireland as a child we always travelled as a family by ferry and I never realised that there were such wonderful and beautiful creatures living just below our route from the UK. When I became a chef and started using Lobster most came from Canada which seemed strange to me as surely it was cheaper to get them from our own coastal
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