Rhubarb, glorious rhubarb

We love to bring out the best in Rhubarb. 

Mushroom Mushaboom

We love Ballyhoura mushrooms! Here are glimpses at how we honor our ingredients when preparing them.

Risotto comfort food

Risotto can be comforting in different forms. Here are two ways we serve it up occasionally on our daily specials menu.

Delicious Ballyhoura mushroom risotto, finished with wild garlic & seaweed butter and Hegarty's cheddar.

Risotto balls with Hegarty's cheddar, wild garlic dulse, and Ballyhoura mushrooms that are just about to be bread crumbed. 

What is your favorite risotto ingredient?

Barbecue Experiments

Adding lovely west cork garlic to the barb experimentation Smoked mushrooms and garlic with olive oil & fennel with tonight's monkfish

Strawberry Desserts A Go-Go

Strawberries can do so much, from house-made jam to special desserts. Carrageen moss & strawberries Strawberry Pavlova

Fresh Rhubarb

Pavalova with creme pat & rhubarb me trying to recreate and put my own twist on a super dessert I had at Ondine Edinburgh. It is one of the desserts a go-go tonight at Fenns Quay.

Durcan's spiced beef

Slow cooked Durcan's spiced beef in Dungarvan black rock stout & beef stock and once cooled pulled delicious.

Cork Dry Gin & beetroot-cured salmon with Goatsbridge trout caviar

Cork Dry Gin & beetroot-cured salmon with Goatsbridge trout caviar served on Slated Ireland.

The ingredients before being plated.

Sausage Casserole

We make a slow cooked sausage casserole using Durcan's of the English Markets cracked black pepper sausages

Risotto balls

Risotto balls with Hegarty's cheddar wild garlic dulse & Ballyhoura mushrooms just about to be bread crumbed.

Cork Beer Batter

Mountain Man Hairy Goat as well as great for drinking (responsibly) also great for beer batter for fish. Mountain Man is located in West Cork.

Longueville Brandy Truffles

Heat the cream then pour while whisking on to the chocolate and butter then add the brandy leave to set for 1 hour then ball and coat in cocoa powder

Our truffles made with longueville house brandy packed up nicely in there boxes

Good morning

Topping up the coffe grinder with Maher's coffee beans. Scones in the oven. See you soon.

Dinner a go-go with West Cork honeycomb and Irish Atlantic Sea Salt

Tuna with dimitris veg wild Atlantic sea salt with Arran Dillisk kohlrabi & West Cork honey comb

West Cork honey so pure so tasty

Irish Atlantic Sea Salt

Looking forward to experimenting with the flavours, aroma from each one is unreal. 

Tried the paprika & chilli Irish Atlantic Sea Salt on the rustic potatoes delicious.

Simple monkfish dish used the lemon & black pepper Irish Atlantic Sea Salt on the monkfish

Courgette flowers

Courgette flowers ready to be stuffed with feta

Asparagus-Pea Velouté

Asparagus-pea 
I made this fab tasting velouté with them peas and pods used for extra flavour.

O'Sullivan's Poultry

Our chicken supplier O'Sullivan's of the English Market in Cork City, Ireland

Wild and Special

We have fresh wild Irish salmon for the dinner specials tonight. I love all the seasonal and local ingredients that come to our kitchen so we can prepare them for your plate! We're only missing a photo of the fish in the sea for this post truly show from ocean to table. Scroll down to see the finished dish: Wild salmon monk parsnip kale carrot & buttermilk foam & bacon dust.

 

Fresh

There is nothing like cooking with and eating fresh, seasonal, local ingredients. What is your favourite right now?