Welcome to this week’s news and special offers from the market!
As Sunday is Valentine's Day, we start this week's newsletter with Aine's Chocolates and their wonderful heart-shaped chocolates which anyone who visited their stall last Sat will have seen. They have some really beautiful ideas for that special person in your life, at very reasonable prices, so no excuses not to be sorted with a pressie by 4pm on Saturday - you wont be running to the local petrol station for that bedraggled bunch of chrysanthymums on Sunday morning! And you have the added bonus of being able to eat half the chocolate yourself...
Fish!
Still great fishing on the west coast, so expect more of the great produce that Cailean presented us with last Saturday. Remember, he is more than happy to prepare any fish for you - he will fillet your flat fish, tell you how to cook it (although he and I disagree on the use of lemon juice on fish!), give you advice on shellfish - he was even spotted shelling fresh prawns last Saturday, and anything else you want to ask him about!
Meat!
Jim Ryan’s Butchers are repeating their special on his great mince/stewing beef – at an amazingly good price of €5 per kilo. Jim himself is very busy with the lambing season, so his colleague Ray Doran will be manning the butcher's stall on Saturday. Ray will also have a small quantity of well-aged striploin available, so if you like your aged beef, get there early to get some.
Free-range, organic Eggs!
We ran out of eggs again last Saturday - I think the stallholders and staff are buying up lots of them before any customers make it in the door, so we hope to have a larger quantity available on Saturday. Our eggs are proving one of our most popular additions - they are organic, free-range eggs from Boyne Pastures, Stackallen, Co. Meath, which is near Slane. They are being sold through the Spud Man's Stall. Alternatively, let me know by email and I’ll get some put aside for you.
Wines on tasting and on offer!
Valentines Day Sparkling Special - All sparkling wines from our award winning producers in Spain and Italy 15% off for Saturday Only .
St Veran VV Les Perrettes, 2007, A full bodied but refreshing white wine from southern Burgundy, great with chicken or meaty seafood like Monkfish. Usual price €16.25, down to €13.81/btl or €12.19 when you buy 6.
Clos l'Hermitage 2007, a single vineyard Rhone wine with plenty of zip as the vineyard is owned by ex F1 driver Jean Alessi! A full bodied, complex and smooth wine to warm you up over the weekend, great with red meats and casseroles.
Usual price €17.50, down to €14.87/btl or €13.12 when you buy 6.
Artisan Jams on tasting:
Sarah Doran-Glavic will be at the market on Saturday for a tasting of her great jams and other produce - including lollipops made from fruit juices and natural cordials. Her produce is stocked in our pantry area under the name of 'From Mother's Kitchen' a business she started last year with her sister-in-law.
Cheese!
On tasting this week-end is Cooleeney’s raw milk cheese – cheese as it should be! We also have a great new yoghurt compote on tasting from Killowen - which somehow didnt make it onto the tasting table last Saturday.
Recipes!
Two recipes from last Saturday - our vegetable and bean soup (from a few weeks ago) and our Lamb Casserole dish. Apologies for the non-arrival of our italian meatball recipe - I am still refining the recipe! If you would prefer me to send the recipes to you as an attachment, just drop me a return email and I’ll forward them to you.
Hot food at the market:
This Saturdays hot dish of the day is our Barbequed Beef Stew (which isnt actually cooked on a BBQ, despite the title!), and we'll be trying out another Winter Vegetable Soup. All made from market produce, and available in take-away dishes for you to pop into your freezer when you get home, there for that day when you cant bear to go shopping!
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday - please feel free to forward this mail to other food and wine lovers that you know! Remember to tell anyone who hasnt visited us before that we are the second market in Dublin Industrial Estate and to follow the H2G and Honest2Goodness Green signs.
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