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Monthly Competition
BIM Seafood Circle Competition
This month, to help dispel all the doom and gloom, BIM is offering 2 prizes of a delicious seafood meal for you and your friends or family (to the value of EUR250 each) in a SEAFOOD CIRCLE restaurant of your choice PLUS 10 x runners up prizes of the cookbook "From Tide to Table - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Seafood" by Georgina Campbell". Packed full of delicious recipes and information on seafood, this publication is supported by BIM.
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Short & Romantic Breaks at Waterford Castle
WaterfordThis beautiful hotel dates back to the 15th century, and is situated on its own 310 acre wooded island (complete with 18-hole golf course), reached by a private ferry. The hotel combines the elegance of earlier times with modern comfort, service and convenience - and the location is uniquely serene and is highly romantic. They have a variety of short & romantic breaks on offer at the moment (starting from €129 per person sharing) including a one day cookery course on 16th January.
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GC's Cookbooks
Irish Country House Cooking - The Blue Book Recipe Collection (Hardback)
From the homely to the very grand, these delicious dishes celebrate the diversity of Irish country houses, castles and a number of top restaurants, with recipes clearly explained for the home cook to recreate with confidence.
The Best of Irish Breads & Baking
'The Best of Irish Breads and Baking' Traditional, Contemporary and Festive, seasoned with luscious colour photographs, is a must for anyone who has not forgotten the irresistible aroma of home cooking.
Meals for All Seasons - The Best of Contemporary Irish Cooking (out of print, Hardback)
This vintage cookbook is out of print and only available here. Georgina Campbell's outstanding and comprehensive cookbook published in 1992 contains recipes and dishes for year-round use and quality contemporary cooking. As well as starters, side-dishes, main courses and desserts; it includes baking and preserving, 'basics' and 'sauces' sections, seasonal fresh produce listings, sensible and clear instructions on preparation and cooking and imaginative ideas on serving. In fact, everything the cook needs for all-season cooking.








A natural talent for hospitality is the ace that Irish people keep up their sleeve – time and again visitor surveys confirm that, along with ...
The “Just Ask!” Restaurant of the Month winner for February is Café Rua, in Castlebar, Co Mayo.
Fast food has come in for a right royal bashing lately and, with certain noble exceptions (stir-fries, for example), quite right too. The irony is that, in true tortoise and hare fashion, traditional slow cooking methods may actually be easier on your time than rushing to get a meal on the table in a hurry. Getting organised several hours ahead leaves you free to do other things while the dinner is gently cooking away – and, with slow cooking, you can use less expensive cuts of meat in slow roasts and casseroles that are meltingly tender and have loads more flavour than the pricey prime cuts.
Quality chocolate production is perhaps an unexpected speciality for Ireland but, although the main ingredients are of course imported, it has become an important – and increasingly successful – area of artisan production throughout the country. What’s more, it’s one of the few that seem to be recession-proof; we all need our little treats, apparently, and – unlike many of the things we had become used to in recent years - the feel-good factor induced by a good chocolate is not beyond reach, so sales are surging as never before. Google ‘Irish chocolates’ and you will be amazed at the number of speciality brands that come up...
A remarkable book by any standards, it comes as no surprise find that Prannie Rhatigan’s Irish Seaweed Kitchen (Booklink; full colour hardback 288pp, €35) was many years in the making – the wonder of it is that this wide ranging, searching and very beautiful work ever went to press at all, as its subject is clearly a work in progress for this gifted medical doctor, organic gardener and Slow Food cook.
Lucy Madden considers the paradox of death by health & safety, among other things. To the jaw-dropping astonishment of my husband, our accountant recently suggested that we might like to pay him less. This may have had to do with the alternative, as he saw it, of not being paid at all, or perhaps it was an acknowledgement that fees paid in the past are unsustainable.
A brilliant fish at any time, smoked haddock is especially welcome in the early months of the year, when storms may affect supplies of fresh fish. The essence of cold-weather comfort food, it’s at its best in dishes like creamy fish pies and steaming chowders, bubbling smokies and less usual breakfast dishes such as kedgeree. Mainly from the North Atlantic, melanogrammus aeglefinus is a fish of the cod family and is processed in numerous places, including Ireland.
The BIM Seafood Circle initiative was initially set up as programme encouraging pubs to serve seafood dishes at lunchtime, a meal at which many people prefer to choose lighter, healthier dishes. This has been further developed in conjunction with Georgina Campbell Guides to encompass not only pubs but also restaurants and hotels. The programme also covers fish retailers. Check out the listings in this guide and you'll find top quality, innovative, delicious seafood dishes in the establishments carrying the distinctive Seafood Circle logo.
Hailed as "the Oscars of the internet industry", the eircom Golden Spider Awards are Ireland's leading showcase for excellence in online business and the people running them, in Ireland. On Thursday 20th November www.ireland-guide.com was awarded the "Best Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Website Award 2008".
OUT NOW...Georgina Campbell’s latest cookbook – and Ireland’s first ‘seafood bible’ – is ‘From Tide to Table’ - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Seafood. This stylish and user-friendly seafood cookbook is published in association with Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), the Irish Sea Fisheries Board and is sure to be a very popular gift this Christmas... 

