The Cookery Course with a Difference

As you know from our previous posts we recently embarked on creating a Learn to Cook Course with our Executive Chef, Enda Dunne. We have hosted gourmet evening’s in the past which proved to be very popular. With this in mind we decided to create a cookery course with a difference.

Enda Dunne said “What made this cooking course so unique is that each class was followed by a dinner party and wine tasting. Our pupils, male and female of all ages showed a great desire to learn to cook from our international senior chef’s in a working hotel environment. But no only that, they then sat down to eat the menu that they had prepared themselves. We have successfully combined a cooking course with a dining out experience aswell.”

The pupils not only enjoyed the fruits of their labour, but also served their course to the rest of the group including the chef’s. We have found that this gave everyone the opportunity to ask questions and also added an element of humorous competition between the teams. We have posted some photos of our Learn to Cook Class hard at work in the kitchen!

The Learn to Cook Course is the only one of its kind in the community and due to popular demand, further course dates will be scheduled in the coming weeks.

As requested by our Learn to Cook Class of January 2010, we have posted Enda’s Sweetbread Recipe which went down a treat when he made it during the course!

Sweetbread Recipe
1 cup all bran
1 cup caster sugar
1 cup mixed dried fruits
1 cup milk
1 cup self rising flour

Mix first four and leave overnight.
Fold in the flour and bake @175-180C for 45 min.

Jedward’s Performance at National Television Awards

John & Edward Grimes, the 18 year old Twins from Dublin set the stage alight with their performance of “Ice Ice Baby” with Vanilla Ice at the National Television awards in Britain last night.

Known for their distinctive blond quiffs and entertaining performances, the identical twins have risen to fame since appearing in the X Factor in 2009 & have created the "Jedward Phenomenon" worldwide.

We think their performance last night stole the show and look forward to see what the Irish Twins do next. Something tells us they have a long career ahead of them!!

We want to know what you think, so have a look and let us know!

Click here to view Jedward’s Performance

VAT Free Food in Talbot Hotels

Due to popular demand the Talbot Hotel Group, Talbot Wexford, Talbot Carlow & the Stillorgan Park Hotel are launching their VAT Free Food initiative during the months of January & February 2010 for the second time.

Due to the success of this initiative in 2009 the Hotel Group have decided to re-launch VAT Free Food for 2010 & will pay the 13.5% VAT on all guest food bills.

VAT Free Food will be launched across each of the hotels on January 1st 2010.

Eating out has never been so affordable!