A staggering week.

Week three marked my second week in kitchen 3. After a rather emotional return from Dublin, it was a relatively unemotional start to my week in the kitchen. It was a traditional food day for me, preparing the Shanagarry traditional salad, brown soda bread, redcurrant jelly and bananas in a lime syrup. For all the […]

Week Two at Ballymaloe

POWDERED GELATINE, written in bloc capitals at the top of my Monday morning order of work. My goal to conquer this difficult substance. Terrifying. I am pleased to say I managed to ‘sponge’ it into submission. Once sponged and melted, the powdered gelatine was gently folded into a luscious sweetened raspberry puree with whipped cream […]