Now is the perfect time of year for picking wild rosehips! Hedgerows abound with the bright red bullets of lovliness so there is no reason why you shouldn’t get picking! Pick perfect berries and try and spread your picking out across a number of bushes so you are not stripping one single plant bear of their berries. This also leave plenty behind to act as nature’s larder for the wild birds and hedgerow animals too who, lets face it, have more of a need for these fruits than we do.
Chicken Pot Pie!
It’s here…you can feel it can’t you? Darker mornings, shorter evenings – that nip in the air that tells you that it’s well and truly Autumn! Although I adore the summer, Autumn is officially my absolute favourite time of year! It’s something about the anticipation for the first fire you’ll light, or the first need to pull on your chunky knit jumpers and wear your fluffy socks at night time.
Chickpea and Kale Curry
Sometimes a meat free meal is an absolute must! I will go meat free at least once a week, twice if I can and fish once a week too. I think it is a good thing to give your system a bit of a rest from time to time from trying to digest too much meat. And everytime I do prepare a meat free feast, The Other Half is pleasantly surprised at how a) tasty it is (I try not to be offended by this remark!) and b) how fulfilling he finds it. This time of year I like to take advantage of the masses of fresh local Kale that is in its growing element right now. It’s a vegetable with almost magical properties!
A Taste of West Cork Food Festival 2014
Every year, the Taste of West Cork Food Festival welcomes visitors of all foodie dispositions and from all over the world to the region in a flagrant display of showing off! What would steal the show? The scenery; the beautiful weather, the abundance of food producers (many of whom are award winning) or the vast array of restaurants, bistro’s, cafe’s and bars all doing their bit to take hold of all the amazing produce around them and turn it into delicious tasty morsels for us to savour? In short, it is all of this!
My Electric Picnic Food!
What a great festival it was this year! I spent most of my time literally running between gigs, food tastings and learning new things in the Theatre of Food! Electric Picnic smells as good as the line up looks, and barring just two disappointments, the food was great again this year. I was live tweeting my favourite foodie eats during the festival as @FlavourIE and the feedback from my posts was great.
The Food Truck Revolution Comes to Clonakilty – Food Depot Gourmet Street Kitchen
We are spoilt for choice here in West Cork on great places to eat. With such amazing produce and food producers on our doorstep, any place that offers up locally sourced ingredients to the discerning palates of the good people of West Cork might struggle to peek our interest and that all the good ideas of how to keep us well fed have been thought of.
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Pure Delight on the Pembrokeshire COAST
Recently, I found myself reading the August edition of Olive Magazine (favourite food publication!) and coming across an small article on “Pembrokeshire….The Foodiest Place You’ve Never Been”. It mentioned a number of spots to put on one’s foodie To Do list, but it was especially glowing about a newly opened restaurant in Saundersfoot called Coast (http://coastsaundersfoot.co.uk).