The Dress House Mayobridge
Four of the country’s top chefs allotment their favourite summer recipes with Joe McNamee.
["388"]The Dress House - Women's Clothing Store - Newry - 111 Reviews ... | The Dress House MayobridgeWhat was the aboriginal dish(es) you anytime adapted (domestic and professional)?
With my mum, angel tarts, shortbreads, flapjacks.
Pro, I anticipate it ability accept been a steak Diane in the restaurant, I’ve been accomplishing it so continued I affectionate of forget.
What was your best memorable meal?
Christmas is consistently memorable aback all my ancestors were together, brothers, sisters, Imelda’s ancestors and my Mum and Dad aback they were alive. Or Vila Joya (2 Brilliant Michelin restaurant) in Algarve with Imelda and the twins, we’ve had some memorable commons there.
Chicken – bargain or chargeless ambit or organic?
We’d consistently adulation to be application amoebic craven but there are bodies disturbing every day to put aliment on the table.
A acceptable chargeless range, abnormally blah fed is actual adamantine to beat.
Does the all-around aliment crisis affair you — why and is there annihilation we can do about it?
Of advance there is a aliment crisis, bodies who are starving, but we can alone ascendancy what we do in our own country, our own locality. We charge to brainwash families about aliment and what’s good. We all accept albatross with aliment decay and the abstruse for me is to eat melancholia bounded food, which is a bit lost, that’s aback you get the best flavours and the best value.
How do you eat able-bodied on a low income?
You accept to be a bit of a frugal cook, at home I eat actual simply.
For example, for the ancestors I would baker acceptable wholesome aliment from blemish and use leftovers. Bodies aloof charge the inspiration, the guidance, the help, the encouragement, that’s what we try to do in the aliment school.
Is there such a affair as an Irish cuisine?
It’s avant-garde Irish cuisine added than annihilation because there are a lot of adolescent chefs application local, melancholia aftermath and putting their own twists on it, whether its Nordic cooking, or Asian.
What is your favourite Irish dish?
Quite a few of them, bacon and banknote is adamantine to exhausted if done well.
There’s angel tart, angel crumble for my candied tooth. Alike the Irish bouillon my mam acclimated to make, the lamb neck, the barley, it’s gorgeous.
What is your favourite Irish restaurant (or angel restaurant, if you like)?
There are so many, acceptable restaurants in Ireland from the bargain and airy to a admirable dining acquaintance like Ross Lewis, Chapter One, Derry Clarke, L’Écrivain.
We afresh brought our aggregation to Patrick Guilbaud’s. It was fantastic.
Locally, there’s The Lough Erne, in Enniskillen, Castlemurray and Harvey’s Point, in Donegal.
Worldwide, I adulation to go to London, to Gordon Ramsey, Royal Hospital Road.
What’s your favourite abundance food?
Probably the stews, a admirable ragu with pork chip and beef chip or a actual simple buzz craven with auto and thyme and buzz potatoes and anesthetized carrots, actual adamantine to beat, yum yum.
Which bristles guests would you allure to your ideal banquet party, excluding ancestors or friends?
Alex Ferguson, Basil Fawlty, Del Boy, Mary Kennedy, a acceptable acquaintance of mine, and [Michelin-starred chef in Luxembourg] Léa Linster [with whom Neven trained].
What would you accept as your final meal?
A tasting card with analogous wines and albino to alpha because if I die it will accept to be with a abounding belly: agrarian mushroom, chestnut and truffle soup; a foie gras and abstain terrine; scallops basin we accept on the card with the pork cheeks and altered textures of cauliflower; a passionfruit aficionado cleanser; capital course, nice brittle abstain with a candied and acerb booze maybe angel balsamic; a pre-dessert of rhubarb, affected and strawberries; nice balmy amber fondant with peanut parfait; and acceptable coffee truffles.
Serves 4
Salad:
Dressing:
To accomplish the marinade, abode the garlic in a mini aliment processor or blender with the shallot, amber and sugar, again alloy to anatomy a paste.
Transfer to a baby basin and barrel in the soy sauce, Thai angle sauce, five-spice crumb and several grinds of pepper.
Arrange the craven thighs in a bank basin and cascade over the marinade, axis until able-bodied coated.
Cover and arctic for at atomic 2 hours or up to 24 hours is best, axis the craven thighs several times in the marinade.
Bring aback to allowance temperature afore affable and clean off any balance alkali with kitchen roll.
Heat a frying pan over a average heat.
Add the oil to the pan, again abode the craven thighs in it skin-side down.
Cook for 20-25 account until the bark is nice and crispy.
["129.01"]The Dress House - Mayobridge - Mother of the bride Mayobridge ... | The Dress House MayobridgeWhen you can see the thighs are accurately browned and that the beef is almost, but not absolutely adapted through, about-face them over and baker for addition 5-6 account until absolutely adapted through.
Remove from the calefaction and leave to blow for 5 minutes.
Place in a ample basin with the lettuce, mango, bounce onions, cashew basics and coriander.
To accomplish the dressing, abode the rapeseed oil in a baby basin with the vinegar. Barrel until blended, again activity in the soy, ginger, garlic and oil. Season to taste.
Use the bathrobe to agilely dress the salad, casting acclaim until analogously combined. Arrange on plates and serve the actual bathrobe in a jug so guests can advice themselves.
What was the aboriginal dish(es) you anytime adapted (domestic and professional)?
I appear from a big acreage in Mayobridge, Co Down, and Mum would accept consistently adapted for the men and I would accept helped but Lasagna from blemish was the aboriginal I did all by myself. I abstruse to accomplish it at academy and approved to carbon it, I was 13 or 14.
My aboriginal job was as KP, in a bounded restaurant, and they let me advice out on pastry first. I fabricated crème brulee and I acclimated alkali instead of sugar, for the top and it wouldn’t broil at all.
I couldn’t assignment out what was activity on, it was a acceptable assignment for life.
What was your best memorable meal?
In Nuremore Auberge restaurant, aback I went to accouterment academy first, at 16 or 17. The chef was Ray McArdle.
I anticipate it was the aboriginal time I’d accomplished actual adorned tablecloths, seven altered waiters, aboriginal able restaurant.
I had angel crumble ice chrism and was actual impressed!
Chicken — bargain or free-range or organic?
Definitely at the actual atomic chargeless range, we apperceive amoebic is bigger but difficult to allow for a lot of people.
If your craven is cheap, it can’t be acceptable for you. I anticipate Ireland struggles with craven generally, because it’s so cheap.
We had amoebic craven on the card aftermost year and the aberration in flavour is aerial — craven on the capital advance is a adventurous footfall for a Michelin brilliant restaurant.
Does the all-around aliment crisis affair you — why and is there annihilation we can do about it?
It does affair me, acutely I anticipate you can accomplish a aberration if we accomplish baby changes ourselves on a bounded level, alike baby changes in the home can accomplish a difference.
How do you eat able-bodied on a low income?
Planning is apparently best important, allotment — if you don’t, you’ll aloof buy aback you’re athirst and absorb added than you would.
A craven for two commons and the basic for soup, advance time in your cooking.
Is there such a affair as an Irish cuisine?
I don’t anticipate so, not yet.
What is your favourite Irish dish?
Oysters and Guinness, that’s a bit ‘tourist board, acceptable to Ireland’ and we apperceive there’s lot added but I adulation it.
What is your favourite Irish restaurant (or angel restaurant, if you like)?
Chapter One is my favourite: the acceptable is actual Irish but they baker to an all-embracing accepted and we would absolutely strive for that in Eipic.
What’s your favourite abundance food?
New potatoes, excellent and chives.
Which bristles guests would you allure to your ideal banquet party, excluding ancestors or friends?
Tommy Tiernan, to acquaint the jokes. Elvis, absolutely acceptable belief and he’d sing, and I’d accept to buzz my dad to acquaint him who I’m accepting banquet with. Tom Hardy, for accessible and egocentric reasons.
Darina Allen, because she is aloof so astute and would accept abundant things to say. Jim Gavin, Dublin football manager, because we charge him up in Co Bottomward to accompany us aback to the 90s, and Marilyn Monroe for absolutely acceptable belief about presidents and all.
What would you accept as your final meal?
A Sunday buzz at home in Mayobridge with ancestors and friends.
We use altered growers at Eipic and you can acquaint we are able-bodied into summer aback they access burdened with courgettes.
This is a abundant way to use them up and additionally accept some for the autumn or winter seasons.
Blend the aloft capacity to a adhesive In a saucepan. Calefaction 2 tbsp rapeseed oil.
Add 1 tbsp alacrity seeds and 1 tbsp coriander seeds.
When the seeds activate to pop add 2 tsp arena cumim and 1 tsp tumeric. Activity for 1 minute.
["194"]Angelic Boutique | The Dress House MayobridgeAdd the onion paste, the courgettes, 200ml cider alkali and 125g Demerara sugar.
Bring all capacity to a simmer and baker until courgettes are soft.
Allow to air-conditioned absolutely afore autumn in closed jars.
The chutney will accumulate up to 6 months.
For a quick and accessible summer lunch, band a acerb case with filo pastry brushed with butter, broil in a hot oven 180’ for 10 mins until agilely aureate amber In the bottom.
Add acceptable spoons of the chutney, some broken courgettes, asparagus spears and bounce onions.
Crack 3 ample abstain eggs into the case and broil in the oven for addition 10 - 12 mins.
Sprinkle chopped herbs on top and a little sea salt.
What was the aboriginal dish(es) you anytime adapted (domestic and professional)?
As a kid, beans on toast, if that’s alike cooking. I did Home Economics for my Leaving Cert, so from about fifth year, I would accept started to baker and broil a little bit.
I was alive in a Chinese restaurant and one of the aboriginal dishes that I approved to archetype was additional ribs or craven satay. The abecedary had me do a audience in the class.
Pro, actual simple Dublin Bay prawn basin with adulate and chrism and timbale of rice.
What was your best memorable meal?
I meal I had in [3 Michelin-starred] Brooklyn Fare, in NYC. I’d formed with the chef, Cesar Ramirez, in Chicago 15 years prior. There was no smoke and mirrors, a affectionate of a bar, like you were bistro in a kitchen, aloof absolutely based on flavour and taste, actual artlessly presented.
Chicken — bargain or free-range or organic?
It’s article that is registering added as I get older. My wife afresh bought a big 2.5 kilo bird, you had to use your teeth to eat it, it wasn’t tough, it was aloof able chargeless ambit and apparently one of the aboriginal times I absolutely noticed the arrangement of the legs.
I accept the beef structure, the eatability in the mouth, all these things but the penny absolutely alone afterwards bistro endless of craven over the years, so, consistently amoebic and chargeless range.
Does the all-around aliment crisis affair you — why and is there annihilation we can do about it?
I anticipate that if everybody does a baby bit, it has to help, don’t badly buy food, don’t badly adapt food, if anybody adopted that assumption it would help, a lot of decay in the aboriginal world.
I disagree with the bazaar focus on perfection. If we eat what our grandparents ate, we won’t go too far wrong, good, affable honest cooking.
How do you eat able-bodied on a low income?
I suppose, to be honest, apprenticeship helps so much, for example, application off cuts, beef cheeks, oxtail, if you notice, in Dublin especially, a lot of butchers about Moore St are stocking offcuts, way added than they anytime did in the Celtic Tiger.
Is there such a affair as an Irish cuisine?
I do accept that there is, our aftermath and angle and meat is the best in the world, I’ve been about the world, and formed in a lot of places and accept that Irish aftermath is the best. I absolutely accept that we are developing that we could alarm an Irish wave, like the Nordic wave, the Spanish wave.
What is your favourite Irish dish?
Shellfish backtalk or Dublin bay prawns accomplished with
lemon, to me that’s Irish, adapted actual simply. Smoked apricot and crab, amber aliment — to die for, really!
What’s your favourite abundance food?
I adulation a beginning bake-apple bloom and the kids adulation it too, or a simple augment soup.
Which bristles guests would you allure to your ideal banquet party, excluding ancestors or friends?
Alex Ferguson, [French chef] Michel Bras, [French chef] Pierre Gagnaire, PJ Mara for a funny adventure or two, Myrtle Allen.
What would you accept as your final meal?
Crab and prawn mayonnaise with a nice bottle of baptize — annihilation bigger than a bottle of baptize aback you’re thirsty.
Graham Neville’s Amoebic Smoked Salmon, Clogherhead Crab, Granny Artisan Apple
Per person
Lay the bent egg (white and yellow), apricot eggs, diced onion, and caper/berry in arrangement about the ambit of the plate.
Lay the apricot collapsed in the centre of the plate, accession the backtalk on top of the salmon.
Lay blubbery strips of angel neatly on top of the crab.
This basin can be accompanied with amber aliment or brioche
What was the aboriginal dish(es) you anytime adapted (domestic and professional)?
["793.46"]Down Royal Magners - Belfast Live | The Dress House MayobridgeI acclimated to advice my mother in accurate authoritative chapatis, so I would accomplish the aftermost one with her, she would accumulate one baby brawl of dough,
Tthen aback I was 14 or 15 authoritative pilau rice, lentils, simple abundance food.
Or a accomplished craven blimp with rice aback I was alive in the Sheraton accumulation of hotels in India, aback in 1993.
My mother was the one who aggressive me.
There were about 16 or 17 in the house, a collective family.
She acclimated to baker for anybody and I acclimated to advice her out, accomplishing adhesive and pestle, case onions, demography out garlic cloves. Aback she acclimated to go to bazaar I’d go with her.
I’d say, ‘don’t you get tired?’ She’d say, ‘no I get a lot of beatitude affable for the family’.
I anticipation that’s what I appetite to do with my life, that’s my inspiration.
What was your best memorable meal?
Sarson da saag [pureed appearance and alacrity leaves] and makki roti, cornmeal bread, that my mother cooked.
Unfortunately it’s consistently a winter basin and we go in the summer.
My brother’s bells in October a few years ago was the aftermost time I had it.
Chicken — bargain or free-range or organic?
It does accomplish a difference, but I anticipate meat has to be beginning and local. Consistently buy from a bounded boner and if you can allow chargeless ambit organic, why not? If you amusement the meat well, you will get the results.
Does the all-around aliment crisis affair you — why and is there annihilation we can do about it?
Big time, definitely, bodies are not accomplishing abundant about it.
If we accumulate announcement bounded food, abound what you can grow, it will advice everybody — and the government charge to abutment farming.
How do you eat able-bodied on a low income?
Cook your own food, aboriginal thing, and accomplish abiding you buy from bounded markets. Use the boxy cuts that bodies avoid, cuts on the cartilage and shoulder.
Is there such a affair as an Irish cuisine?
Chapter one is exploring an Irish cuisine and is Michelin starred and the best restaurant, I’m abiding there is.
What is your favourite Irish dish?
When I was alive in a auberge in India in the French kitchen, we acclimated to accept a basin alleged Irish stew, that was one of the best dishes I could eat at the time and aback I came actuality it was absolutely different.
We acclimated to accept chicken, lamb, and a lot of red wine in ours and it acclimated to advertise like anything.
What is your favourite Irish restaurant (or angel restaurant, if you like)?
Chapter One
What’s your favourite abundance food?
Shimla raj mah chawal, admirable red branch beans, adapted by my wife, Leena.
Which bristles guests would you allure to your ideal banquet party, excluding ancestors or friends?
If I’m cooking, I consistently capital to baker for Mother Theresa, [chef] Alain Ducasse, Myrtle Allen, [London aliment critic] Fay Maschler, [food critic] Catherine Cleary, [Indian celebrity chef] Sanjeev Kapoor, Ross Lewis.
What would you accept as your final meal?
Sarson da saag and makki roti and a big bottle of Lassi [Indian buttermilk-based drink].
For scallops
For the abject of scallops
Butter for scallops
Clean and pat dry the scallops and marinate them with trumeric chili powder and beginning chopped coriander. Accumulate aside.
For the abject - mix all the capacity in the bond basin and add tamarind water, excellent chutney and beginning amethyst seeds.
Heat the oil, dust the scallops with gram abrade and pan fry them for about 90 abnormal anniversary side. Again add butter.
Glaze the scallops and serve hot with the brittle aloof rice.
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