tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9990570116544037372024-03-13T09:07:04.362-07:00FeastivalAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00047024368286465524noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999057011654403737.post-85566481005053378422016-09-02T16:36:00.001-07:002016-09-02T17:02:33.296-07:00<h3>
Day 5: Mackerel (ahem... frittata), fennely red-wine red-cabbage, cinnamon parsnips and baby potatoes.</h3>
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We had a really good ratio of home sourced to shop bought ingredients again today. In the plus corner was kale, potatoes, red cabbage, red wine (made by booze hound Brianán), green peppers, parsnips, chives, fennel, thyme and nasturtiums flowers and on the minus side just eggs and cinnamon (and what would turn out to be secret illegal cheese).<br />
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No. It's Kale. Wait, did he say Kale? He did, that's what I thought he said. Weird. </h3>
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Before I go on, I've got to talk about kale. Kale is a proper super food. Not because it kills cancer, reverses aging or makes sure you never miss an episode of Emerdale, but because it grows in Ireland in the winter. It grows in Ireland in the winter! So find yourself a spot and plants it. It will do your heart good to go pick some during your 15 minutes of sunlight on some horrible January day.<br />
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This dinner was supposed to challenge the taste buds a little with the wine and fennel of the cabbage playing off against the earthier flavours of the frittata and the almost Christmastimey parsnips. This only kind-of worked but was worth for the experiment. This dinner was one of the most colourful of the week.<br />
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This is what it looked like.</h3>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alíona: <span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2</span> out of 5 stars</span> </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I like the parsnips and the spuds but generally this was not my sort of thing - because I'm not really into eggs. I'm going to Barbados.</span></b></span><br />
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I liked the parsnips but I was a little <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">disappointment with the frittata (expecially because I cheated and put in some cheese - for shame)</span>. Overall it was good but did not blow my shoes off.</span></span></b></span><br />
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Anyone who knows me (Andy) knows that I love spuds and hot food. So this was really the perfect meal for me. But what is really great about this dinner is that almost (really, really almost) everything in the meal was produced by us. This dinner had a million different ingredients and except for some spices, which we can't grow in Ireland, and some ginger, which maybe we can, they all came from our gardens.</div>
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Then there was the Tarka. We've had an interesting time with our chilies this year - because a lot of them seem quite mild (for chilies) but every once and awhile we get one with a lot of heat. I put one and a half green chilies in this, alongside garlic, ginger, tomatoes and a load of spices, and it was hot enough to do some serious damage. Delish! </div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brianán: <span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5</span> out of 5 stars</span> That was delicious and very spicy. I would have eaten even more of it, especially the broccoli, any day of the week.</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Claudia: <span style="color: orange;">5 out of 5 stars</span> I liked the fl<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a</span>vours of the spuds. It was nice and cru<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nchy. I loved the spicy sauce a bit. It was very spicy. And the yogurt.</span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Coming up tomorrow - we join forces to blog about fresh macheral (hopefully), red-wine red-cabbage, cinamin parsnips and baby spuds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did jobs to help Mammy make the dinner. I helped with kneading up the pizza dough and chopping up the tomatoes. And I got lettuce from outside and a bit of spinach and rocket. </span><br />
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Your reading my (Alíona) thoughts about our feastival meal for today, which was a great success with very few hiccups along the way. WARNING there may be some very cringy jokes. Today's dinner was a veg stir-fry using a few special ingredients including beansprouts which we sprouted following instructions from the excellent book " Grow your own Vegetables" by Joy Larckom. <br />
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And green hazlenuts which we collected like this:<a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/gardening/hazelnut-heaven-209876.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> </span>Hazlenut heaven</a> . . . .today!! Now is the perfect time of year to try this. <br />
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Growing the beansprouts was a new and fun experience fo<span style="font-family: inherit;">r us, it was quite interesting to see how the beansprouts could grow so strong that they could lift a bowl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Andy: <span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3 1/2</span> out of 5 stars</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"I</span> re<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ally liked the textures <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">especially</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">beansprouts, but would have liked it a bit more spicy<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">B</span>oom sha<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ke the room </span></span></span>" </span></span>.
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This is the first dinner in our challenge and we decided to stick with a tried-and-tested family favourite; if you've ever been for a visit you've probably had some part or version of this meal handed to you! <br />
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However the substitution of broad beans in the re:fried beans is a bit of a wild experiment. I (Brianán) thought that the strong flavour might be complemented by the earthy spices and I hoped the texture might be similar, once the tough skin was chopped up.(spoiler: it was not) <br />
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Claudia and I worked on the wraps and, at the last minute, decided to add a big dollop of our homemade yoghurt to the mix, that really worked out, they were soft and well flavoured, I will do that again! <br />
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Claudia is now excellent at rolling out wraps , which is brilliant because rolling them AND cooking them is too much for one person (Brianán). Alíona shelled all the broad beans and I prepped the salsa ingredients:</div>
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I sautéd all ingredients, adding tomatoes and lime juice at the last minute to get a "chunky-not-saucy" salsa.</div>
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I finely chopped the broad beans (super boring) and steamed them for 2 mins in the microwave, before using in the re:fried beans recipe. It's usually kidney or pinto beans that would be used.</div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alíona: <span style="color: #e69138;">4 out of 5 stars</span> </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The wraps were soft and awesome, but I didn't like the juice from the beans, I found it very bitter.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brianán: <span style="color: #e69138;">4 out of 5 stars</span> The broad beans did not get soft and "beany" but I really enjoyed them anyway.</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Andy: <span style="color: #e69138;">4 out of 5 stars</span> Delicious and spicy, the broad beans were very meaty and the salsa super-flavoursome. The yoghurt really brought all the flavours together. </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Coming up tomorrow- Alíona will take over blogging about the dinner and I'll share a recipe for homemade yoghurt!</span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b></span></span></span>Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00047024368286465524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999057011654403737.post-10636968872922967952016-08-29T09:59:00.001-07:002016-08-29T12:53:53.796-07:00Feastival - The Beginning <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrvYtnQSc054u4XecVivAkTW0XZs5io2rG_QvewLiIF3hqsEJWmoG19ElSNsRuG5Nm08PzdSm9Dk5E3nmsl6V5UDDbQarPzIJjwh8No9orZ8LH7OTFe-mP25quBaLU7fKH4p5ytq_Vj4/s1600/Screen+shot+2016-08-29+at+18.07.34.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrvYtnQSc054u4XecVivAkTW0XZs5io2rG_QvewLiIF3hqsEJWmoG19ElSNsRuG5Nm08PzdSm9Dk5E3nmsl6V5UDDbQarPzIJjwh8No9orZ8LH7OTFe-mP25quBaLU7fKH4p5ytq_Vj4/s320/Screen+shot+2016-08-29+at+18.07.34.png" width="246" /></a>As a family, we all love food. We are also into sustainable living, gardening and doing stuff from scratch. (And then showing it off!)<br />
So, for the next few days, we are having our own little experiment to see if we can feed ourselves as much as possible on foods we have grown or foraged ourselves.<br />
August is the perfect time for this attempt, with the majority of Irish crops in now in harvest. Not to mention the crazy crap going on in the hedgerows!<br />
We have a small garden at our house in Galway, and a larger garden of drills in Clare, where there's also a polytunnel.<br />
We don't just want to eat, we want to eat well, so we will use some of our favourite recipes to make this a delicious, mostly vegetarian, experience.<br />
Detail of our first dinner - refried beans, salsa, wraps, yogurt and green salad - will be posted in the next few hours. Wish us luck!<br />
Brianán, Andy, Alíona, Claudia and Simon (the dog). <br />
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<i>All pictures by Alíona Hamilton </i>Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00047024368286465524noreply@blogger.com0