The sauce verte or green sauce, has often labelled other green sauces, such as the Spanish green mojo or Mexican salsa verde. This recipe is based on classic French cooking traditions and also is the most widely used.

Recipe for 12-15 people:

40g baby spinach leaves.

40g watercress leaves.

20g flat parsley leaves.

20g chervil leaves.

20g tarragon leaves.

4 egg yolks.

6 dl vegetable oil.

1 tablespoon of good tarragon vinegar.

8g salt.

1 good pinch of freshly ground pepper.  Continue reading »

The Killumney Utd football team, pride and joy of mine host Michael Sheahan
SUPER STARTER, SUPER MEAL

at the KILLUMNEY INNYou won’t be hungry leaving the Killumney Inn. Trouble is you could be full before the finish.
Take the potato wedge starter for instance. It is a huge dish. Better shared. It is quite nice too, the potato served with bacon and topped with cheese.
Main course was baked rack of lamb in a red wine sauce, served with a selection of vegetables, mashed potato and chips.  Continue reading »

We have been working away for the last few weeks on a project that we are about to launch (blog readers as always will be first to get wind of it!). The project requires some really clean food photos so I thought i would share them here with you seeing as most people who read this blog are foodies! Can anybody guess what the project might be after seeing the photos?  Continue reading »

People are always asking me if I am fussy about food when I eat out being a chef, and I always tell them that i am not in the slightest. See when you spend your entire life behind the stove it is such a pleasure for somebody else to actually be cooking it for you that i really enjoy the simple things like a good roast dinner or a simple homemade soup.  Continue reading »

I have written about the health benefits of chocolate before, and there was an article on the topic in yesterday’s Tribune, which you can read here. What surprised me was the mention of a 2004 study from Imperial College London that chocolate is 30% more effective than codeine in suppressing coughs.  Continue reading »

Talk about washed out of it… The weekend was just horrible weatherwise. Foodwise and rugbywise, not so bad due to a smashing win for Munster and lots of great meals enjoyed. I’ve no recipes for you as the recipe that I wanted to try out was a complete disaster and made way for one of my blondest moments so far – more to follow. 
            We began on Friday night with an Indian meal in Mayur Tandori on Steamboat Quay.  Continue reading »

Now i am not really sure what you can do with this funky little widget apart from embedding it into your profile but it is pretty to look at and unusual so i though i’d share it with you. Just in case you are not familiar with Blinkx it is the biggest video search engine in the world and we have just launched an iFoods channel there.  Continue reading »

It’s a bold statement when a ‘gourmet’ burger restaurant names itself Relish.  Continue reading »

For, ahem, staff training.  Business as usual from tomorrow morning onwards.  We apologize for any inconvenience this closure may cause.  Continue reading »

I am enjoying making recipes out the new Bill Granger cook book. One of the most successful recipes I tried this week was a recipe for roasted pumpkin with cumin and cayenne pepper but unfortunately there seemed to be a pumpkin/squash drought and so I plumped for sweet potato instead.The combination of the soft luscious sweet potato, the salty cheese and olives and the sharp shallot dressing was to die for. This is a really quick and simple recipe that I will definitely be doing again.  Continue reading »

                                     
Did you watch Gordon Ramsay’s “cook along show” on Friday night??? As you can probably tell by all the TV I’m watching at the moment there’s not much socialising going on in the Italian foodie house.  Continue reading »

For anyone interested in business blogging, and there’s a piece on it in the business section of today’s Sunday Times. There’s a bit on Ice Cream Ireland as well as words of wisdom from Damien, Beaut.ie, and Krishna De….  Continue reading »

All right, just a quick one before I go. Some of you will already have had a go at the 2007 vintage of Brightwater Vineyards’ Sauvignon Blanc, from Nelson, New Zealand.
Before it arrived, Valley Neale wrote to describe its
highly aromatic… very intense, what we refer to as a sweat or matchstick
character. This particular character is a real highlight of Sauvignon Blanc
and we don’t get it every year.  Continue reading »

Comfort food for 2008

Dublin, Ireland, Europe.  Continue reading »

 Feeling the need for a little chocolate burst last night, I went making some cookies. I have written about Pierre Herme here and here. The recipe came from him via Dorie Greenspan’s excellent cookbook Paris Sweets, which is a compendium of desserts from Paris’ best pastry shops.  Continue reading »

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With TV becoming saturated with Cookery programmes C4 and Gordon Ramsey tried a new format tonight with the live cookalong. After watching it (without cooking along) i must say i was a bit underwhelmed. I think they make the cardinal mistake of trying to give Gordon a script which is a big mistake as we all know how witty and precise he is with his comments off the cuff. Quite a lot of his jokes had been pre written and it just doesn’t suit his style at all.  Continue reading »

ADVOCACY TRAINING
for the Organic NGO Sector

ENFO Offices, 17 St Andrew Street, Dublin 2
Tues 22 January 2008 – 10am to 4.30pm

Advocacy is defined as arguing in favour of something, such as a cause, idea, or policy; and as engaging in active support. How would this training event be of value to the organic sector?  Continue reading »

My recent ambition in the kitchen has not only left me with frousse this week, but also a giant tub of homemade milk chocolate pudding!
I used this recipe from the site to whip up a batch of one of my favorite comfort snacks and I would definitely recommend you do the same!  Continue reading »

It seems that there has been a huge explosion in the “foodie culture” recently and nothing encompasses that more than the amount of food blogs popping up all over the world, at the last estimate there are in excess of 10,000! People are becoming more and more educated and eating out in the fantastic array of restaurants now available to us!  Continue reading »