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!

Having had a fantastically positive opening couple of weeks for the (tiny) farm shop I am going to give each of my lovely products a spin on the tasting table every Friday afternoon. So if anyone is unsure about buying new products then they can check them out first. Starting this Friday will be different ways of cooking pumpkins - just ...

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...

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 ...

At the Kilkenny Food Innovation Network product launch last Saturday in the Castleyard in Castlecomer, 12 food producers unveiled new products to an invited audience of industry experts, restauranteurs, food writers, and food lovers! All were presented as tasting plates and each producer then made a presentation about the product during the tasting sessions. The venue was amazing a real assest ...

A group of food producers have been working together with Kilkenny Enterprise Board for the last 8 months or so to develop new products. We will be launching them on Saturday at Castlecomer as part of the Savour Kilkenny Food Festival. There is a fantastic range of products from Goatsbridge Irish Trout, A Slice of Heaven, Two Little Chefs, Sowan's ...

http://www.examiner.com/x-4791-SF-International-Travel-Examiner~y2009m3d25-Taste-Consciousness-What-is-Culinary-Tourism Bob was here last December as part of a group of 8 International food & travel writers. I cooked lots of things, but sort of traditional Irish with a modern edge..ie there was no hairy bacon, grey boiled lamb, or gloopy vegetable soup...why on earth is that the sort of sludge that's served up as "Traditional Irish Food" to so ...

Christine Jordan, owner of Tasteworks Cookery School Interview Click on "Play Now" below to listen to the interview.