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New beginnings at O’Connor’s

Mary O'Brien November, 2021

‘Good seafood cooked simply and skillfully’. That’s the ethos behind O’Connor’s Seafood Restaurant Bantry and one that has stood the restaurant in good stead, particularly faced with the challenges thrown out by this pandemic. Over a year-and-a-half ago, in March 2020, Shane Spillane and his wife Carly opened the doors […]

Last of the summer harvest

Karen Austin October, 2021

The garden is beginning to look a little woolly now that it’s the end of September; the apples and pears are falling from the trees and the courgettes have slowed so much that they have become a valuable commodity again. Even the beans are beginning to be defeated with the […]

‘Bean’ to India on a plate

Karen Austin September, 2021

I’m a bit of a bean freak and each year we grow a variety of beans in our garden. French beans, borlotti beans, angel beans, coca beans, dwarf beans; most years each of these produces enough beans for us to enjoy but no way overwhelm us, but the runner beans […]

Traditional Greek cuisine stuffed with flavour

Karen Austin August, 2021

The Azores High brought great excitement and good weather to West Cork in July. For ten days it was like living in the Mediterranean. The beaches were packed and the sea full of people bobbing about, a rare and delightful sight. Families were moving in with plastic bath tubs full […]

Grilled watermelon will surprise you

Karen Austin July, 2021

How time flies! We have already entered the second half of summer, having passed the longest day, which seems to have come round faster than ever this year. It may be the second half of summer but I’m still prowling around the courgettes plants waiting for them to spring into […]

Feast in The Field

WCP Staff July, 2021

Just finding The Field Kitchen licensed restaurant at Camus Farm is part of its indelible charm. If you’re lucky, with the help of Google Maps, you’ll arrive at a boreen bordered by native hedgerows teeming with wildlife and on one side framed by the farm’s veg beds. This marks the […]

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