Category: Chefs

  • Win! The new Zest cook book

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    Competition Closed at 4pm, Tuesday Oct 13. Check back tomorrow to see if you’re a winner. Cooking is a feel-good act anyway, but if you want to tip the scales of generally feeling fabulous, then make the next cookery book you buy ‘Zest’, the proceeds of which will go to the Irish Hospice Foundation. About…

  • The Tuesday Tip: Garth McColgan’s School Lunch Box

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    If your kids are fed up with ham sandwiches, Aldi‘s resident chef, Garth McColgan of Food Active, has some handy tips and tricks for a healthy school lunchbox, exclusively for CheapEats. They’re not bad as snacks for adults either! By Garth McColgan 1. Banana and Nutella Sandwich There is an amount of refined sugar in…

  • Wednesday Wind-down: A Farewell Cheers to Floyd

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    Sadly Keith Floyd, the booziest and funniest of all chefs, passed away on Monday. He was a legend. Best known for his haphazard presenting and his penchant for knocking back the vino while he was at it; kind of reminds me of my husband come to think of it. The original TV chef produced some…

  • Calling All Cooks

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    The good folk at RTE’s The Afternoon Show have been in touch to let us know about a new segment on the programme: Beat the Chef. They’re looking for viewers who fancy going up against the show’s chefs with their favourite dish. For example, if you do a mean moussaka or a cheese cake, their…

  • Garth McColgan’s Lovers Prawns

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    Top Irish chef Garth McColgan has a perfect Valentine’s night recipe: Lover’s Prawns. McColgan runs Food Active, which aims to teach young people about good food, and also provides inexpensive recipes for Aldi. Lover’s Prawns Ingredients 1 pack Giant Butterfly Prawns 10 slices of Parma Ham Juice of half a Lemon 1 clove Garlic, very…

  • Homemade Edible Gifts

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    Want to give a gift that is inexpensive and really thoughtful, not to mention delicious? I wrote an article for the Irish Independent Fine Wine and Food magazine, published last Tuesday December 9, about getting organised with food for Christmas. As part of this, I spoke to Nafisa Brennan, owner of organic spice company Orgapod…