Week 7 Road Trip, Markets and more food .

Some food from Week 7
Week 6 we had our herb and salad leaf Identification exam and also a technical exam.
I did extremely well and am starting to get my stuff together for week 12 exams where we have 3 written and a 3 hour cooking exam.

Rachael with ox tail

Beef kidney

Making Apple jelly

Its Elderflower season

Road Trip

The Tannery

We Visited the Tannery In Dungarvan Paul Flynn owns this He is is regarded as one of the foremost Irish chefs, cooking exciting and modern Irish food. It was wonderful that he allowed us to wonder into his restaurant cooking school and vegetable gardens.
We also had the pleasure of having a wonderful Dessert in the Tannery while Paul Talked to us about the reality of the restaurant business.

The Tannery Cooking school Blog Is Here http://tannery.wordpress.com/

The Tannery Cooking school is amazing .

Paul and Rory

The food at the TanneryThe gardens
The drive there


At Mahon Point market

If your into food and this end of the country this is a not to be missed Market . Every Thursday
With 43 wonderful stalls
http://www.mahonpointfarmersmarket.com/

At Frank Hederman Smoke house

http://www.frankhederman.com/

At the cheese Farm

Cutting the curds

Curds and whey


The Cliff House
Head Chef Martijn Kajuiter

http://www.thecliffhousehotel.com/dining.html

Kajuiter's kitchen and restaurant is acclaimed by guests and destination diners from Waterford and all over Ireland, uses only the finest of local ingredients. "I want to work with seasonal products from the Irish soil and sea

The Chefs table