One of the recipes I devised to make the best of some excellent French poultry products given me by Sopexa for trial 2 duck breasts 6 x 30cm circles cut from a brie or similar soft cheese granulated sugar 1packet baby spinach (or rocket) leaves 2 tbsp sherry vinegar A superb combination – the sugar ...
RecipesThe breasts and legs from 2 St.Sever chickens. 5-6 ripe pears approx 3 tbsp butter, preferably unsalted 6 morels or other wild mushrooms, if dried, soaked in cold water. Each one sliced into three pieces 1 tbsp cognac chicken stock 1 tbsp cream or creme fraiche The night before your dinner party skin and joint ...
RecipesSunday’s crowning glory was the feast at the Hotel Dieu, the medieval almshouse otherwise known as the Hospices, a thrilling masterpiece of late Gothic architecture with its distinctive polychromatic Burgundian tiled roof. The Hospices de Beaune is a charity founded by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, in 1443, a man famed far and wide for ...
TravelI promised the full story of my trip to Burgundy for the Auction at The Hospice de Beaune. Here it is… Why all the fuss? A question I asked myself as the TGV sped southward. Size wise it’s insignificant, comprising as it does a mere 02% of the earth’s surface that’s covered by vines. What’s ...
TravelCaviston’s, that Sandycove institution, has now expanded its sphere of influence to Monkstown. To be pinpoint precise, to a location on the venerable dining strip alongside the funeral parlour. Maybe this influenced the new restaurant’s architect to shroud the interior in unremitting black, relieved only by large silver fish emblems hanging trophy-like on the walls ...
Restaurant ReviewsThe Thai Orchid is located at the junction of Fleet Street and Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2, a spot where Temple Bar meets the civilized world. To a degree the location reflects the custom; the night we were there the clientele consisted of English revellers, of the sort who liked a good time but didn’t drink ...
Restaurant ReviewsGeronimo and Crazy Horse were meeting for the last time before they were confined to the reservation. They reminisced about the good old days before the “long knife soldiers” and the carpet baggers arrived to rob them of their riches, the plains, the buffalo, the freedom to roam, hunt and shoot. Tuesday night was a ...
Restaurant ReviewsNow you see me, now you don’t. Zucchini, a restaurant that graced Ranelagh’s trendy dining strip for barely longer than a wet weekend, is no more. Under the same ownership it’s made a fresh start as Mint, as in “Is this gonna cost me a mint?” for it was clear from the minute we walked ...
Restaurant ReviewsSuccessor to the best-selling Neven Cooks with the criticisms we made of the first one anwered. Production values are upped, design and use of photography much more elegant. That and Neven’s stylish yet uncomplicated recipes should ensure the sequel’s success. and deservedly so. Neven Cooks 2 By Neven Maguire Poolbeg e£14.99
Books & EquipmentJBR quit L’Ortolan his successful south of England restaurant for a farmhouse in SW France. French Leave, based on a successful TV series, is a memoir of his first year in France, taking on the French at their own game in their own back yard, sampling the pleasures and pitfalls of truffle-hunting, cheese-making and becoming ...
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