Produce is pouring out of the garden, we can't keep up (thank goodness for a bit of rain the past few days, those plants can drink!) and warm days mean lovely summery food. A new class schedule for the next few months is up so check it out and see what is on offer. Someday when I get a minute I ...

We have beautiful loose leaves, baby spinach and rocket coming now this week, it is available loose or in 100g bags at 3 Euro per bag. It is really special for those of you who are salad lovers!

Delicious meat-free recipes will be cooked this Thursday night using fresh vegetables, herbs and store cupboard ingredients. Risotto the traditional way, pasta dishes, lovely baked vegetable dishes and a couple of desserts maybe...you get to sample everything so come hungry! Telephone to book a place, cost is 40 Euro per person including supper.

It's amazing how travel can change your viewpoint. I have just spent a few days in a really interesting part of Germany close to the French and Swiss borders. The Black Forest is a year round holiday destination - winter offers great skiing and sledding, hearty food, and crazy carnivals. Summertime is all about hiking, swimming, and boating in the ...

The shop is  open from 12pm on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The range of vegetables is always broad, some weeks I have big bunches of fresh basil and fresh coriander. Bread is baked each morning, there aren't too many requests for cakes and biscuits at the moment however! Everyone is on a post-Christmas reduction of sugar I think...but I do ...

After a long Christmas break we are open again...well we would have been open last week if we hadn't been up to our eyeballs in snow. Who would think it? Looking out this morning to sunny blue skies, mild temperatures, and green hills it is hard to see how on earth it could have been minus 14 here last week...our ...

So, as we all slowly attempt to get back into routines of work, school, and home after Christmas what are our food choices at this time of the year? I personally have an aversion to sugar at the moment - not through some little voice in my head telling me to be healthier, but just feeling overloaded after weeks of ...

These are the best recipes that I have ever used...delicious breakfast ideas, the main meal with the vegetables being the star of the show - but that is just a personal issue! There is a great recipe for an alternative to Christmas Pudding also. Don't forget that in the shop here I have Christmas Cakes, Puddings, desserts, bread, vegetables and fruit, ...

Regarding vouchers - firstly mine do not expire...how can money expire? This is something that really annoys me about shops. They get paid for a voucher then it "expires" after a certain length of time....grrr....annoying, downright unfair and surely could be legally challenged? Anyway on to more festive thoughts...I do not have a facility for credit cards, so if you would ...

Tasteworks Farm Shop will be open Tuesday 22nd & Wednesday 23rd  December from 12 noon to 7.30pm. Christmas Eve opening from 12 noon to 5pm. Just a note regarding stock - I will only be able to guarantee supplies of vegetables and fruit if they have been ordered this week - I will have stock for Christmas week but it will disappear very ...

Finally I got a chance to do up the new Winter / Spring Schedule...go to Evening Courses page for details!

This is an outrageously luscious dessert from South Africa called Malva Pudding. It is like a toffee sponge - light but really rich at the same time. Not the best picture I have ever taken it won't be winning any prizes but it gives the idea...I hope!  Give it a try. Malva Pudding The dry ingredients in this pudding are measured in ...

The following article was written by Michael Kelly of GIY Ireland, and it highlights the need to be more conscious of what cleaning products are used in our environments. We are hoping to stock Lillis products soon in the (tiny) shop. I keep sticking in "tiny" or "little" or "small" all the time because I am afraid that if someone ...

We were going to open today but it was just bananas around here this week with too many last minute things to sort out, so tomorrow it is....the fresh vegetables will be here at about 1.30pm. Shop open at noon until 7.30pm.

Co. Cork company Green Saffron is supplying their fantastic spices and blends into Tasteworks. This is a small family company who imports their whole spices, grinds them and sells them in pure form but also in these ingenious blends so that creating authentic tasting zingy Indian food becomes a doddle. Their website is fantastic too as it has lots of ...

 “This is the best food event that I have attended in the last 10 years!” These were the opening words of John McKenna, editor of The Bridgestone Guide, as he addressed the participants and guests at the Kilkenny County Enterprise Board’s ‘Create a Taste’ launch of new food products in Castlecomer last Saturday. The event, which was part of the ...

I am always thinking up new courses, and eventhough so many have been run since 2004 there seems to be an endless amount that I keep dreaming up. However if I have missed any subject matter that would interest you please feel free to post ideas on the comment form below. Courses run on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, occasional Wednesday ...

Clearly we have lots of ideas for what to stock in our (little!) shop in a few weeks, but if there are any great products out there from Co. Carlow, Kilkenny, Wicklow, Wexford, Kildare or Laois that we haven't found yet please let us know about them! Comment form below...

2008 into 2009 was a busy time for me, having entered a competition half-heartedly in September 2008, suddenly I was involved in a TV programme for the whole winter getting through all the stages to the final for an innovative chilled baby food based on porridge. A wonder food for everyone, but especially for babies this was a great project to ...

One-day Saturday courses are a fantastic Christmas gift as one it is a fun day out, but most importantly it is a useful gift. You are allowing someone to learn something new that will directly benefit their daily life. Gift vouchers available, telephone to order a general voucher or to book someone on a specific course. See the Saturday Courses page ...