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Ireland missing from top global food society

NEXT month I’m back off to Portugal for a well-deserved holiday, and this is one break I am particularly looking forward to.  more >

There’s salt, and then there’s the sea kind

IF you can’t afford the finest fillet steak with every meal, or the freshest wild salmon, or any other expensive main ingredient . . . then you’re not alone. Most of us don’t make the sort of money where dinner each evening features Michelin Guide-type food.  more >

Cue for a great meal

IT’S summer, which means it’s barbecue time. And you don’t have to have a fancy grill costing several hundred euro to enjoy the pleasures of cooking outside.  more >

Menu as Irish as it is British (and it’s great)

ON Friday three chefs from the British Isles (two from England and one from both sides of the border over here!) will attempt to impress the sternest gastronomic critics in the world . . . The French.  more >

Easy reading (sort of) for a sunny afternoon

DARINA Allen, the Portlaois-born founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry, County Cork, is often referred to as the “doyen” of Irish celebrity chefs - on a par with, in the UK, Delia Smith.  more >

Rare is too medium? Then cook it yourself

MANY years ago I was invited to dinner with some friends, who were throwing a fondue party. At the time it was a pretty cool way of eating.  more >

Have a Nice day with this French classic

IF you’ve been preparing food for yourself for any length of time, you’ve probably long-since graduated away from British Isles-type salads (lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, egg/chicken/tuna/ham topped with some splodges of Heinz Salad Cream).  more >

Veg that loves it dry

MOST of the world’s crop is grown in China – and the majority of that is fed to livestock.  more >

TV show that gives the top chefs a grilling

AFTER the abrasive competitiveness of Masterchef Goes Live, the return of the BBC weekday early-evening cookery programme Great British Menu comes as something of a relief.  more >

A very tasty fish over which they went to war

Turbot are flatfish native to the North Atlantic, with its rather unusual name coming from the Greek language based on the words for “to look” and “eye’.  more >