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At the right time of year we get the most wonderful Prawns in the waters off #Ballycotton. Perfect with a little Homemade mayonaisse
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Ballymaloe Cookery. Breakfast spread with freshly baked soda breads and sourdough with our Jersey butter and homemade jams.
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Breakfast spread with freshly baked soda breads and sourdough with our Jersey butter and homemade jams.
Digging new season potatoes @rachelallencooks @ballymaloecookeryschool
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New season potatoes are being dug daily here at Ballymaloe Cookery School and delivered up to the Farm Shop by the hardworking gardeners. The pic of @rachelallencooks is from last year when everyone (literally) dug in during the lockdown and helped out anywhere they could.
Thank goodness things are begining to look a little more normal. Swing by the shop and grab a bag of Homegrown Organic Spuds at The Farm Shop. Bring them home and gently boil in salted water, slather with some delicious butter and a sprinkling of @maldonsalt. It couldn’t be more #SimplyDelicious
Tears 😢 and 🍻 cheers when Gordon Ramsay drops in on Tilly @ballymaloecookeryschool 🇮🇪 #Netflix
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- Gordon Ramsay and his family arrive for a surprise visit while Tilly is on her cookery course. 👩🍳
From the new series of Being Gordon Ramsay.
Episode 5.
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A Pancake Extravaganza by Rachel Allen
Tuesday is pancake time. In all their shapes and forms, they are a real favourite in our household. It isn’t just our children who get excited – I adore pancakes and love an excuse to make a real feast of them. There’s something so pleasingly simple, so supremely comforting about a perfectly browned pancake, unchallenging and uncomplicated, but always delicious.
We’ll make all different sorts of pancakes on different years, and often on the same day. I love thin pancakes – they’re called crepes in France, where they’re usually made with some buckwheat flour. I like to eat them rolled up with lemon and sugar, or the perennial favourite, Nutella! We like to make thin pancakes as a savoury treat too, omitting the sugar and making a creamy mushroom filling with bacon and perhaps some Gruyere cheese.
If you’d like to make your pancakes a little more elaborate than just a squeeze of lemon and sugar, you can try this divine orange butter recipe, opposite, that we often make at the cookery school.
At other times, we like to make big, fluffy American pancakes, served with rashers and plenty of maple syrup. I’ve written recipes for blueberry and lemon pancakes in these pages before, as well as in a number of my cookbooks.
The Italian recipe here is a totally different take on pancakes that I’ve made on Pancake Tuesday in previous years. It was inspired by a conversation I had with the great Italian chef, Aldo Zilli. He told me a wonderful story about his mother using light pancakes as an alternative to pasta in certain dishes, and I’ve discovered that they work wonderfully with rich tomato sauces. The Italian baked pancakes with tomato sauce recipe, opposite, uses the pancakes in place of lasagne sheets, which adds a fluffiness to the dish. It’s a perfect family dish and would make a great centrepiece to a Shrove Tuesday dinner table.
Tip
Adding melted butter to the pancake batter will make a real difference to the pancakes’ flavour and texture. It also makes it possible to cook them without having to grease the pan every time.
Pancake Recipes:
Garlic and Rosemary Sourdough by @karaanaomi @ballymaloe #cookeryschool Co.Cork 🇮🇪
White Soda Bread recipe @Ballymaloe Co.Cork ❤️
INGREDIENTS
Preheat the oven to 250deg C
Makes 1 loaf
450g (1lb, 31/2 cups) plain flour
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
300-600ml (1/2 – 1 pint, 1 1/4 – 2 1/2 cups) sour milk or buttermilk
METHOD
Sieve the dry ingredients. Make a well in the centre.
Pour in all the milk at once. Using 1 hand, with your fingers stiff and outstretched like a claw, stir in a full circular movement from the centre to the outside of the bowl in ever increasing circles. The dough should be softish, not too wet and sticky. When it all comes together, turn it out onto a well-floured work surface. Wash and dry your hands. Tidy it up and flip over gently. Pat the dough into a round, about 4cm deep.
Cut a deep cross on the loaf and prick in the four corners.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes then turn down to 200deg C for 30 minutes until cooked. If you are in doubt, tap the bottom of the bread, when it is cooked it will sound hollow. Cool on a wire rack.
Tip! Soda breads are best eaten on the day they are made, but are still good the next day.
Spotted Dog
Follow the recipe above adding: 1 dessert spoon of sugar, 100g sultanas, 1 egg.
Add the sugar and the sultanas with the flour and drop the egg in with the milk before missing. Spotted dog is also called railway cake in some parts of Ireland.
Stripy Cat
Follow the spotted dog recipe replacing the sultanas with 75g of roughly chopped best quality chocolate.
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Scarlett and Tamsin Allen’s almond tart with berries:RTÉ Today Delish 😋
This quick and delicious recipe can be adapted to make a larger tart, and topped with any fruit you like.
Ingredients
Makes 24 mini almond tartlets or 2 x 18cm tarts
110g butter
110g caster sugar
110g ground almond
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180’C/160’Fan/350’F/Gas mark 4.
- Place the butter in a bowl and beat until soft and light. Add in the sugar and the ground almonds and mix to combine.
- Place generous teaspoonful blobs of the mixture in each ‘cup’ of a shallow bun tray (a mince pie tray), you should get 24 altogether so if it’s a 12 hole tray then cook it in 2 batches.
- Or you could make 12 mini tartlets and 1 x 18cm tin.
- Bake in the preheat oven for 8-10 minutes until a rich golden brown then take out of the oven and leave to sit for 3 minutes, then remove each little tartlet base and cool on a wire rack.
- The larger tart will take 16-18 minutes to cook.
- After removing from the oven, allow to sit for 3 minutes then turn out onto a plate and allow to cool before decorating.
- Top with raspberries or sliced strawberries and whipped cream or whatever delicious fruit you have.
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It’s the love ❤️ 😍 Rachel Allen @ballymaloecookeryschool Co.Cork
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- My girl; you make me so proud, try it, take the chance, make a change…
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