Monday, December 6, 2010

MAHON MARKET DINNER

DINNER FROM MAHON 

Felt good after Saturday night’s dinner, assembled at Thursday’s Mahon Point Farmer’s Market. Felt even better when I read this tweet from Martin Conroy of Woodside Farm : London's New Economics Foundation found £10 spent at local business is worth £25 locally, compared with just £14 when spent in supermarkets.

Well, I reckon I spent about a hundred euro in Mahon. Money makes the world go round so let’s starts the revolution locally. My tenner (I don’t always spend a 100!) and yours goes a long way.

The dinner? Great start with a Roasted Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup, put together on Wednesday night by Flynn's Kitchen. Well suited to the current weather, indeed gorgeous in any weather. Cost: 3 euro for one, five for two. Great soup, great value.

Main Dish was Whey Fed Pork from Gubbeen, along with roasted parsnips and carrots from Ballycurraginny Farm. Great feeling to be able to wash the East Cork soil off the veg, rather than have them sweating when you slit open a plastic bag.

The pork was absolutely fantastic, perhaps the best I’ve tasted in years and went so well with the veg and the potato cakes. The meat, delicious in flavour and so moist, had a ring of fat around it and some of that went to feed the birds Sunday morning, the first “customer” being our regular wren, followed by blackbird, robin, sparrow, finch and the lively tit (who never lingers for long in any one spot).

No dessert as such but enjoyed finishing off the Tipperary Brie, another Mahon purchase. And still there are some bits and pieces left, not least an inviting chunk of bacon from Woodside Farm!

Shop local and eat well. And make the world go round
Another version of this post here at Ireland Online

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