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A post by peter at CheapEats.ie
Finally, some decent special offers at Dunnes. This week’s lot includes:
Simply Better dry cure rashers (200g), pork sausages (12’s), corn fed free range eggs – all 3 for €5
White potatoes (2.5kg), punnet of green pears (750g), or punnet of kiwis (6) – 79c each
Miller genuine draft – €17.99 (75c per bottle)
The small print, according to my fantabulous wonder eyes, says the offers are valid until April 10. I’m open to correction from superheroes. Continue reading »
A post by peter at CheapEats.ie
It’s mostly all about the booze this week at Tesco. Well and good if you’re planning to drink a lot over the next week, not as good if you have a lot of mouths to feed. The special offers include:
Selection of half price wines
Bailey’s 70cl – reduced from €17.45 to €13
Colgate Advanced or Sensation Whitening toothpaste – buy one get one free
Drink offers are valid until Tuesday April 6, while health and beauty offers are valid until Wednesday April 7. Continue reading »
A post by peter at CheapEats.ie
Special offers this week at SuperValu include:
SuperValu smoked salmon (400g) – half price – now €5.50
Denny rashers, sausages and black or white pudding for €5 – save €1.97
Selected wines reduced by up to 33%
Wine and Denny breakfast ofers valid until Saturday April 10. All other offers valid until Saturday April 3. Click here for details.
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Special Offers at SuperValu. Continue reading »
A post by noreply@blogger.com (Donal) at The Good Mood Food Blog- Donal Skehan
I am going to be on The Afternoon Show today on RTE 1 @ 4.00pm. I’m going to be cooking two dessert recipes which are suitable for people with diabeties. Tune in, may award may make an appearance! Continue reading »
A post by Elke at Dine & Wine Club Cork
Wow, I am still in Kells Mood. Dorothy invited Caz, Angela and myself to her cottage in Kells and we had a ball. It was the most relaxing weekend I had in a long time. Everything was chilled out and we took it all in with a big smile on our faces.
We headed out on Friday evening and Dorothy was the designated driver for the weekend – not that anyone objected. We arrived at the cottage in the dark but when Dor lit the lights, it was as if we arrived in paradise. Continue reading »
A post by Billy Lyons at RESTAURANTS AND FOOD IN CORK
WEST CORK HOTELThe West Cork Hotel in Skibbereen has a lot going for it: it is central (with its own car park), it is comfortable, gives good deals, has riverside views (where an otter, see photo, performed this weekend), an unusual extension to its very comfortable cosy bar out onto a disused railway bridge (photo), and a friendly staff.
Good deals on food also. On certain nights, you can get. Continue reading »
A post by George at Not Junk Food
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but over the last few years, more and more foodie TV programs have been going on about our western diet and how it has got to change. The first ‘personality’ that I noticed doing this was Jamie Oliver, I’m not saying he’s the first to say it, I’m saying he’s the first that I heard it from.
Our western diet is causing massive problems for almost all nations in what we call the ‘western world’. Continue reading »
A post by The Beer Nut at The Beer Nut
It’s been a busy few days, beerwise, involving some thorough investigations into the new wave of Irish beers on the scene right now. It began with the kick-off of The Porterhouse Independent Irish Beer & Whiskey Festival on Thursday. This year, joyously, the range is too big to squeeze onto one bar so it took trips to both Central and Temple Bar branches to get a taste of all the newcomers. Continue reading »
A post by Caroline at Bibliocook: All About Food
It’s been a big week in the life of a Little Missy. She’s been happy to stand up and cruise around the furniture ever since we were in New Zealand then, two weeks ago, just shy of 11½ months, she took off. Starting with little unsteady forays in the sitting room, she started to walk on her own, chortling with pleasure, arms windmilling by her sides as she tried to balance and master this new means of locomotion. Continue reading »
A post by Matt Kane at Curious: The Curious Wines Wine Blog
The grapes we use for wine, bar a few exceptions, come from the Vitis Vinifera family. You could spend all day listing them, but the likes of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay and Riesling are all from this species of grape.
Cultivated on every continent on Earth, except for Antarctica, its origins stretch from Europe to south-west Asia, but unlike Phylloxera, it’s managed to find its way to Chile, where it’s made a home for itself. Continue reading »
A post by Sharon Hearne Smith at Sharon Hearne-Smith
Denny again! I worked on the animated TV ad that kicked off the Denny ‘Home Is’ campaign back at the end of last year. You can see the ad here on Denny’s Facebook page. Here’s a behind the scenes snap too…. Continue reading »
A post by noreply@blogger.com (Donal) at The Good Mood Food Blog- Donal Skehan
YIPEE!!!
On Saturday night… wait for it… I won the best Irish Food Blog gong at the Irish Blog Awards! They gave me a trophy! A REAL LIFE TROPHY! I have to admit I didn’t expect to get so caught up in the whole thing, but when they were calling out the nominees, my heart was pounding. Continue reading »
A post by Daily Spud at The Daily Spud
Sadface, kinda
So Galway and the Irish Blog Awards came and went last night, and while I was a shoe-in for Best Spud, the food and drink honours this year went to the very sweet and multi-talented Donal with his Good Mood Food Blog. He adds the blog crown to his cookbook, newspaper columns, television appearances, pop-stardom and who-knows-what-else to come – quite a phenomenon to contend with! Continue reading »
A post by Billy Lyons at RESTAURANTS AND FOOD IN CORK
THE SKIBBEREEN FARMERS MARKET
The Saturday Farmers Market in Skibbereen town is one of the biggest, one of the best. It resembles a good French market and that comparison was underlined when it was blessed with fine weather this Saturday morning.
There is a great variety of stalls here: fish, herbs, cheese (including Gubbeen), crepes, chocolate, plants, books, stained glass, cakes, jams and. Continue reading »
A post by Billy Lyons at RESTAURANTS AND FOOD IN CORK
LA JOLIE BRISE
La Jolie Brise is one of a small string of pizza, restaurant and room rental properties run by the Waterfront in Baltimore (West Cork).
They include Chez Youen, a French Restaurant, but it was to the pizzeria plus fish tables of La Jolie Brise that we headed yesterday at lunch time.
A few years back, we spent two glorious days staying and eating in the Waterfront and one evening. Continue reading »
A post by Billy Lyons at RESTAURANTS AND FOOD IN CORK
OVER THE MOON
Just had the most enjoyable meal in Skibbereen restaurant Over The Moon. Imagination, excellent cooking, fresh ingredients plus a friendly and efficient service all added up to a very pleasant occasion and one of our best meals in quite a while.
Starter: salad of beetroot, feta, olives, tomato, and toasted seeds. That got us off to the best of starts. Light and sharp, just the. Continue reading »
A post by Caroline at Bibliocook: All About Food
And the winner of the 2010 Irish Blog Award in the Food/Drink category is… Good Mood Food! Congratulations to Donal, and to 9 Bean Row, the foodie winner of the Best Newcomer award. You can see the rest of the winners are here. Wonder how many sore heads there are in Galway this morning?! Continue reading »
A post by Organico at Organico Bantry
Our Granary Loaf is one of our most popular and it is very easy to make. A loaf for the whole family! By Rachel Dare
Makes 3 Loaves
1 kg/2 ¼ lb Doves Organic malted grain flour
500g/1 lb Doves Strong wholemeal flour
3 tsp sea salt
50g/ 1 ½ oz fresh yeast
3 heaped tsp molasses
850mls hand hot water, 3 tbsp olive oil and a little milk
Sesame, sunflower or poppy seeds to top loaf
Tip the flours into a very large mixing bowl and add the salt. Continue reading »
A post by Organico at Organico Bantry
Organico is delighted to be selling Helios Homeopathic Kits. These kits are a great idea, they contain all the homeopathic remedies you will need for general home use. This is the basic 18 rememdy kit (also available in an extended 36 remedy pack).
Helios Double Helix Basic 18 remedy kit, offers a bassic selection of remedies for the home. Compact and lightweight. Continue reading »
A post by Organico at Organico Bantry
Organico is delighted to be selling Helios Homeopathic Kits. These kits are a great idea, they contain all the homeopathic remedies you will need for general home use. This 36 rememdy kit is the extended pack (also available in an 18 remedy pack).
Helios Double Helix Basic 36 remedy kit, offers a broader selection of remedies to cover most ailments suitable for home prescribing. Compact and lightweight. Continue reading »
Pairing great wine with great holiday food is what CuriousWines.ie’s Cracking Christmas Case is all about, hand-picked favourites including holiday classics and some of their best-selling wines of 2011 are all brought together in this glorious mixed case, complimenting Christmas fare from roasts to puddings in spectacular style.
Curious cases start at just €95.00 with free delivery, and this particular case of festive delight retails for a deeply discounted €115. Happily, we’ve got one to give away to a lucky winner at FoodFight.ie. – all you need to do to enter is tell us in the comments below what you’ll be cooking up for Christmas dinner this year, and we’ll pick a winner from the entries on December 16th. (And if you don’t win and still want to grab yourself a holiday bargain, last orders for Christmas dispatch are December 20th!)
Every cook we know loves their iPad (or lusts after one) for clipping, reading and cooking from online recipes right in the kitchen. Well, Clickcase.ie has what may be the ultimate kitchen gadget for iPad lovers: the Speck Handyshell slots around your iPad 2 so it can be hung from any rack, drawer or cabinet knob, keeping your iPad at eye level and safe from spills and mess. Genius!
Clickcase, Irish retailer of brilliant iPad and iPhone accessories, is giving one crimble red Handyshell away to a FoodFight.ie reader just in time for Christmas. To enter, all you have to do is head over to the Clickcase Facebook page before December 8th and tell us why you love your iPad or iPhone in the kitchen!
Bake, sell, raise money and help Temple Street Children’s University Hospital.
This November The Great Irish Bake is back and Kitchen Hero Donal Skehan is helping out with sharing recipes and promoting the event. The Great Irish Bake is in aid of helping sick and seriously ill children get the treatment they need. Head over to The Great Irish Bake to register online and be in the chance of winning a trip to New York when you help raise funds for Temple Street Children’s University Hospital. The site also has hints, tips, recipes and all that goes with an event like this.
This is the Facebook for The Great Irish Bake and of course the Twitter hashtag is: #thegreatirishbake
The Great Irish Bake organisers have shared a recipe with us and also a picture of Donal Skehan with his kids from his first marriage. Some of this might be a lie.
Ingredients (Makes approx 30)
- 300g of plain flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon of mixed spice
- 100g of muscavado sugar
- 150g of butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 pack of foxes fruits or jolly ranchers
The Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
2. In a standalone mixture beat together the butter and sugar. Add in the egg and
mix through.
3. Using a wooden spoon mix through the flour, baking powder, salt, mixed spice
and vanilla extract until you have a biscuit dough.
4. Turn the dough out on to a floured surface and roll out to about 1cm in thickness.
5. Cut out biscuit shapes, place on the lined baking tray, then using a smaller cutter
or a small knife cut out the center of each cookie.
6. Sprinkle the crushed sweets into the centre of the cookie and place in the oven
7. Cook in the oven for about 15 minutes.
8. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before transferring to a wire
wrack.
