Month: July 2009

  • Weekly Roundup

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    Fight, fight, fight! Regular readers will know that we love a good old fashioned scrap here on CheapEats, and this week delivered two: one on table manners and one on self-serving Tesco’s “Screw the Children’s Charity” campaign.  I discovered that deli rolls can be very satisfying, and wrote about Amicus in Co. Cork, while our competition…

  • David’s Amazing, All Purpose Sauce

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    Myself and Snack Box stayed with our friends Rercy (she of CheapEats writing fame) and David on their farm in West Wicklow last week, and both gorged ourself on Dave’s amazing, all-purpose, good with everything sauce. The recipe is so simple. Take about 250ml extra virgin olive oil, add 2-3 cloves of raw garlic (depending…

  • Review: Amicus, Cork

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    I’m always suspicious of places like this. Slap bang in the centre of Cork, Amicus is a giant, heaving restaurant serving food from China to Mexico. To make it worse, they have another branch in Douglas, a few miles outside the city. But, for reasons I’ve long since forgotten, myself and Cat crossed its threshold.…

  • Two for One at High End Restaurants

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    In today’s Irish Times, Conor Pope reports on The G Club, a new initiative from Georgina Campbell that offers reduced price meals to diners in fancy restaurants around the country. For a €75 sign-up fee, G Club members will get a membership card, entitling them to great rates in participating hotels and restaurants. Most of…

  • Product Review: Olvi Oils

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    I’m still horsing my way through the bag full of goodies I picked up at the Bloom Festival last month, and I’ve just come to the end of my jars of Olvi oils. What a gem. Father and daughter team Sam and Miriam have been in business for well over a decade, and it’s easy…

  • Food Bloggers

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    I liked this recipe from The Messy Chef blog for using up leftover potatoes in an omelette. Perfect for… well, just about anytime. For afters, I’m finding some great cooking tips over on Lookandtaste.com: how to melt chocolate, making a sponge base, tips on a good cheese board, and much more. These are all in…

  • Table Manners

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    It’s all of about five minutes since we had our last comment scrap, so I thought I’d try and get another one started.  Tom Doorley recently wrote about table manners in his Megabites blog, and lists some of the table manner faux-pas that send him mental.  Some of his worst offenders: holding the knife like…

  • Temple Spa Review from our Competition Winner

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    You may remember that we gave away an amazing trip to Temple Spa back in June. Our lucky winner Sineady went along with her friend Patches, and sent us this great review of her experience there: I’m writing to say a big thank you for the wonderful prize of the weekend break in Temple Spa,…

  • Weekly Roundup

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    This week, I returned from my holidays in Spain. Despite the rain, I’m actually quite glad to be back. Much as I love Spanish food, I missed having the amount of choice we get here. If I want Moroccan, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Turkish, or whatever, it’s reasonably easy to find a restaurant, or to get…

  • Concentrated Juice vs Non-Concentrated Juice

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    Yesterday’s Irish Independent ran a taste-test on concentrated orange juices, and Superquinn’s Euroshopper option came out top of their list. Juice is one of those things I spend more money than I should on. I know that they are much, much cheaper, but concentrated orange or apple juice just don’t taste the same. Concentrated orange…