Recipes
This recipe is a nice starter that can be prepared ahead to a certain point. Or you double the quantity and make a delicious main course out of it. Ideal for brunches with your family and friends.
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This soup is great as a starter for your Thanksgiving dinner or any other dinner in autumn and winter. Real comfort food!
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Similar principle to Tea Brack but using locally made apple juice instead of tea, interesting alternative as apples are indigenous to these isles
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This toothesome, honeycombed, sticky toffee is traditionally sold at the Auld Lammas Fair at the end of August in Ballycastle in Northern Ireland
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Traditional Irish Coffee - A common misconception is that the Irish Coffee recipe was invented in America the 1950's. In fact the original Irish coffee recipe was invented by a chef at Foynes' port, County Limerick in the 1930's. Foynes' port was where planes on route from Europe to America would stop to refuel before crossing the Atlanic Ocean it was suecceded by Shannon International Airport in the west of Ireland. Joseph Sheridan, the chef in question, was seeking a way to keep passengers warm as their planes were being refuelled. The Irish coffee was conceived after a group of American passengers disembarked from a Pan Am flying boat on a bitterly cold winter's evening in the 1940s. Sheridan added whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers. The passngers enjoying the taste of the coffee, asked if they were being served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told them it was Irish coffee. The Irish coffee was born and the famous Irish coffee recipe is now enjoyed at all corners of the Globe.
Read more »Changing rooms - by Jeanne Quigley
Nothing ever really stays the same. Jeanne Quigley on how seriously some of the country's leading owners take improvements. If there is one common thread, it's the importance of the customer.
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