Tip: To keep Chilli peppers fresh for longer wrap them in newspaper, tie with an elastic and store them in the fridge. If the chillies are fresh to begin with they should keep for three to four weeks.
Author Archive > messy-chef
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
New potatoes are here and there’s usually a few left over in the pot after dinner. A great way to use leftover spuds is to cook them in a Spanish Omelette which I like to top with some metled cheese. Great for lunch on a summer Sunday with a cool glass of Rioja. Ingredients One [...]
Mushroom Soup
It’s refreshing to see that supermarkets are beginning to stock different types of mushrooms these days. Handy if you can’t get to the market, even if you can get a local market sourcing a mix of mushroom types is not easy. My local SuperValu (Ryans in Grange, a fantastic shop) stock 150g packs of mixed [...]
Simple food
Last weekend was spent in Ardmore, Co. Waterford. Beautiful spot (shame about the hurling) so we really couldn’t be bothered cooking or investing any time in cooking. New potatoes, sausages and fried onion. All purchased from the local shop. The potatoes were still a bit on the waxy side, it’ll be mid-July before the Irish [...]
BBQ Season
Having a BBQ in Ireland is somewhat of a lottery, in fact, it’s usually pretty a frustrating excercise. Irish BBQ events are driven more by drinking and less by weather. They are driven even less again by food. When somebody plans a barbecue more than six hours in advance they are either a hopeless optimist [...]
Start the Day
I had breakfast in O’Sullivan’s (Sully’s) Bar in Douglas Village recently, mostly on our Saturday morning visits we just have a coffee but the fry is excellent. Proper sausages, not the cheap and nasty deep fried jumbo ones, proper rashers and they put the beans in a little dish so they don’t travel all over [...]
Grow Your Own
It’s mid-June and the sun is shining, perfect for growing. However garden space is tight. I’ve often thought I’d like a place in the country and grow some ‘things’, I’m not green fingered so I’m not sure what type of ‘things’ I’d actually like to grow but the concept sort of appeals to me. The [...]
Welcome
Welcome to my Blog on cooking. Hopefully this will extend to a bit more than just cooking, I’d also like to try cover everything related: eating; drinking: recipes; wine; beer; ingredients; growing; maybe some reviews. In order to give this blog a bit more of a focus it would be nice to incorporate some local [...]
