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Rapeseed Oil


Rapeseed Fields
Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them
A new product which looks set to play an important role in Ireland’s agriculture and cuisine is RAPESEED OIL and, while the changes this crop brings to the landscape are not universally welcome, the product itself is proving to be a very acceptable alternative to imported olive oil.
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The Darina Allen Column


Darina Allen
Author: Darina Allen
Stevie Parle is an interesting young chef who is making waves on the London food scene - and he was one of the youngest students we ever had on our 12 Week course. Stevie was just 17 years old when he signed up for the January 2002 Certificate Course. He, like many young people, was fed up with ordinary school – he just wanted to cook.
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Insider View - On Festivals


Hilton Park - Clones County Monaghan Ireland
Author: Lucy Madden
Lucy Madden reflects on the life enhancing power of festivals – even when it rains. “We’re not coming to stay” said the woman at the front door. “But the parrot is.” So began the 2011 Flat Lake Arts and Literary Festival here in Co. Monaghan. What is it that makes festivals, events that expose one over a number of days to the vagaries of the weather, a monotonous diet and the stern gaze of Security, so utterly compelling?
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Grow it Yourself - June


BROAD BEANS
Author: Michael Kelly
Did a lot of transplanting this weekend, which is always a fun activity for a GIYer. There’s nothing like the satisfaction of planting seedlings – bare beds transformed in an instant with neat rows of little plants. There are always a few days of fretting after transplanting however – will cold nights set the plants back? Will slugs or rabbits try and munch on them?
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This Farming Life


Castlefarm Athy County Kildare Ireland - ducks
Author: Jenny Young
In June Jenny Young is seeing the fruits of her labours in the Castlefarm garden – but still has to keep predators at bay. I spent a lot of May planting, maintaining and protecting the garden and many of our vegetables are coming into in season this month, making it a perfect time for visitors to Castlefarm shop to come and enjoy them fresh from the garden.
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Gooseberries


Gooseberries
Author: In Season
Of all our Irish fruit the gooseberry has the earliest natural season and is ideally suited to our climate - yet it seems to be inexplicably underused. Admittedly the bushes tend to be thorny and the most commonly grown green varieties need a lot of sweetening to make them palatable, but it’s a very versatile fruit and this harbinger of summer is delicious in many traditional puddings, cold sweets and preserves...
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Book Review - Food to Love by Edward Hayden


Edward Hayden - Food to Love
Author: Cookbook Reviews
Young Kilkenny chef Edward Hayden is a busy man: not only does he have a regular cookery slot on TV3’s popular Ireland AM programme and a column in the Sunday World, but the day job finds him teaching in the Cookery School at Dunbrody House in Co Wexford – and he also gives classes at Waterford Institute of Technology.
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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for May - Ashford Castle Co Mayo


Ashford Castle - Cong County Mayo Ireland
Author: Just Ask
There is nowhere like Ashford Castle - and, thanks to an exceptionally talented and dedicated team headed up by Executive Head Chef, Stefan Matz, in the kitchen and Maître d’ Robert Bowe front of house, the dining experience matches up to the magnificent backdrop.
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A Taste of Mayo's Gourmet Greenway


Enda Kenny - Gourmet Greenway - Mayo Ireland
Author: Georgina Campbell
As Lucy Madden mentions in this month’s Insider View, the magnificent Great Western Greenway in Co Mayo opened in 2010. The longest off-road walking and cycling trail in Ireland, it meanders 17.5km along the line of the famous Newport/Mulranny Railway, which closed in 1937...
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This Farming Life


Castlefarm Athy County Kildare Ireland
Author: Jenny Young
While April was a busy month planting, watering and calving, May is also a busy month for us at our organic farm. Our allotment holders are enjoying their first salad crops. In the Castlefarm garden our first polytunnel crops are starting to bear fruit - soon we will be enjoying our own cucumber and courgettes.
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