This January, we were thrilled to have Louise Kelly of I’m a little vegan join us as our first DataBites speaker of 2021! Vegan food consultant and blogger, Louise also works with SuperValu Ireland and has appeared on Irish TV on shows such as Ireland AM with her fantastic recipes. Louise shared plenty insights into …
By Trevor O’Keeffe – Head Chef at The Metropole Hotel Cork Lemon Posset Ingredients 600ml double cream 200g golden caster sugar zest 3 lemons, plus 75ml juice Stewed rhubarb 200g rhubarb 100g caster ½ tsp cinnamon Recipe To make the Posset… Put the cream in a big saucepan with the sugar and gently heat, stirring, …
By Trevor O’Keeffe – Head Chef at The Metropole Hotel Cork Squash Penne Pasta Ingredients 3 tbsp olive oil 1 small onion, thinly diced 500g/1lb 2oz pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and diced1 sprig of thyme 1 sprig of rosemary finely chopped 1tsp garlic paste 400g pasta (we used penne) 25g freshly grated smoked …
By Anna Hevers – Graduate Intern from Shannon College of Hotel Management Sticky Toffee and Apple Cookies Ingredients 175g unsalted butter , at room temperature 140g golden caster sugar 2 egg yolks 50g ground almond 85g chewy toffees, roughly chopped 85g/3oz dried apple chunks, roughly chopped 225g self-raising flour Recipe MAKES 15 Preheat the oven …
By Anna Hevers – Graduate Intern from Shannon College of Hotel Management Sausage Mummies Ingredients 1 Jus-Rol puff pastry sheet 6 sausages – O’Flynns are fantastic 1 egg, for egg wash Halloween eye cake decorations Honey Recipe Preheat the oven to 180C. Slice the Jus Rol pastry using a pizza cutter length ways so you …
Happy Easter everyone! Here at Cork International Hotel, Easter is our favourite time of year. With the eggs-travaganza we put on for families with games, crafts and more, Family Easter escapes have become a tradition at our hotel. We’re sorry to not be able to welcome you all here this year, but we did manage …
The smell of hot cloves, citrus fruits, cinnamon, star anise, nutmeg, wine and Brandy can only mean one thing, Mulled Wine. The hot festive drink that is sure to pass many of our lips this festive season. If you ever wanted to make it but were looking for a good recipe, well now is the …
A good Tiramisu recipe should never be underestimated. If you are looking for something alternative for Christmas dessert this year, Tiramisu ticks all the boxes, with chocolate, cream, coffee and alcohol! We asked our Chefs at our Italian Restaurant, Olivo Cork, for the decadent Tiramisu recipe they love to share with you all. Print or …
