Lasagne Orson Wells

Lasagne Orson Welles I’m posting this recipe in response to multiple requests for same after I put the above pic on Instagram and Facebook. It is a dish so luxuriously rich, that even the picture itself exudes calories and I can only conclude that, during an especially bitterly cold and stormy spell across the entireContinue reading “Lasagne Orson Wells”

Pilgrim’s Progress

This is a review I wrote for the Irish Mail on Sunday, last August, 2015. Pilgrim’s is a very fine little restaurant based in Rosscarbery, in West Cork, owned and operated by chef Mark Jennings and his partner, Sarah-Jane Pearce, who runs front of house. It took just a single meal for it to be instantly installedContinue reading “Pilgrim’s Progress”

Dishing Up the Nosebag at A Taste of West Cork Food Festival 2015

It has taken The Swashbuachaill some weeks to recover from his recent foray back into the professional culinary world when he presented a nine-course menu in the magnificent surroundings of Uillinn, home of the West Cork Arts Centre, in Skibbereen, as part of the Taste of West Cork food festival. He was delighted and honoured toContinue reading “Dishing Up the Nosebag at A Taste of West Cork Food Festival 2015”

(A lot) more on the Belling West Cork Artisan Food Awards

On a mid-afternoon in early December, winter-weak light already fading and a damp cold sucking the life out of bones, you’d imagine any right-thinking folk would have taken to the fireside with a pile of logs, a stack of papers and a nice hot toddy. But, no, through the doors of the West Cork Hotel,Continue reading “(A lot) more on the Belling West Cork Artisan Food Awards”