Kitchen & Larder

Name: Kitchen & Larder
Address: Newcastle, Wicklow, IE
Telephone: +353879013505

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Self employed cook. Private catering. Plant based cooking at home. From dainty canapes all the way to midnight feasts and everything in between. Wicklow.

We cater for family parties in your home for 20 guests and lavish events for 200 guests in a marquee or outside venue. Choose from the menu or create something all your own. We love to be creative in the kitchen and are determined that catered food doesn't have to be boring and mass produced. We can provide expert advice & guidance on menu planning and service styles to delight your guests. We coo

k and grow at home in Newcastle Co. We have a fully HSE certified production kitchen in a converted barn and a kitchen garden outside.

21/08/2020

I took what I didn’t realise would be the last pic of my wildflowers for 2020 the other day. They’re now all extremely bedraggled after the storm. I collected some seeds before that which was extremely satisfying. Nature thinks of everything including perfect, bespoke packaging for tiny seeds. Hopefully I’ll have double the amount next year as I’ve sprinkled them on another patch of ground opposite this one 😊.

16/08/2020

‘He cut up tomatoes and cucumbers for us like we were children and spread soft bread with butter and honey fresh from the hive’. Nuri describing Mustafa’s father in The Beekeeper of Aleppo.

I’ve got Ananas tomato from the tunnel and hummus on my sourdough but I just love the description of the old man making snacks for the two grown up cousins when they would visit him 🤍.

I’m finished now but it’s so well read by that I’ll remember it for ages. It’s on Borrowbox if you have a library card so you can even bypass Am*zon.

Ps. I may have got the quote a little wrong because I listened so I couldn’t go back and find it very easily.

12/08/2020

The minute he walked in the joint 🎶 🎶

🥕

11/08/2020

I’m half way through The Beekeeper of Aleppo, so.

If you, like me, are one of the last people not to have read it yet then 1. You should start right away. 2. Get some chocolate spread in before you start because It will make you want some.

This is organic, vegan chocolate spread with tastes the exact same as the big N but actually even better because the orangutans are happy about it too.
@ Wicklow, Ireland

10/08/2020

An enormous tomato weighing nearly a kilo. Of course we’ve forgotten which variety it is so we just call it ‘ugly tomato’.

You can peel the skin off it kind of like peeling a ripe mango.

I sliced it thinly and dressed with lots of rapeseed oil, salt, pepper and purple basil.

Picking up a piece on the edge of a fork feels a bit like like picking up a piece of smoked fish because it’s so dense with hardly any seeds and you can fold it as you lay it on the hummus-y bread.

I went back and made a second plate like this straight away because it was so good.
🍅 @ Wicklow, Ireland

06/08/2020

Tomatoes, cucumber, basil, parsley, coriander, spring onion all from the garden with roasted chickpeas, garlic, lemon juice and rapeseed oil added 😊.

Some cashew cream added last minute just for the heck of it.

The smell of my little bunch of 3 types of herbs from the garden was SO good.

Summer food is just as good without summer weather imo 😊.
@ Wicklow, Ireland

04/08/2020

Good things waiting to be assembled 😊.

Extremely pleased with this experiment from the other day.

‘Lamb’ made from mushrooms, onions, red lentils and walnuts. So good, I could have eaten it all with a spoon straight out of the pot 🙈.

02/08/2020

Wildflower Sundays

31/07/2020

On sunday I made granola bars held together with dates soaked in boiling water and blitzed to a mush.

I also mooned about the place listening to Taylor Swift’s new album (!!), watched Netflix and read the whole internet. It was LOVELY.

Bear with me, I have a point.

Dates grow on a type of palm tree called a Date Palm (try to keep up, I know it’s complicated).

Fossil records show that the Date Palm has existed for at least fifty million years (50,000,000).

this week is that something 50m years old was as nice a part of my Sunday as the shiny new things.

Then I started to wonder how long ago actually is fifty million years?

Fifty. Million. Years. You guys.

Professor Google tells me this is just slightly after the dinosaurs went extinct but still tens of millions of years before there were people.

The first human ancestors existed between five and seven million years ago.

The first people who were anything like us weren’t until around 130,000 years ago.

It may not be until 70,000/30,000 years ago that they started to think and be creative like humans are now (it seems nobody actually has any clue about this really and can’t agree on anything).

Guys, nobody knows when people started being people BUT they’ve/we’ve been eating dates the entire time.

I just happen to think that’s cool. The end.

Thank you, goodnight.
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30/07/2020

A slice of courgette cake and a gin tea* please.

*no gin was involved in the making of this snack. I discovered by accident yesterday that this mint smells freakishly like gin after it’s been used for tea. I wish there was smellstagram so I could show you.

29/07/2020

For some reason this salad reminded me of an anecdote in autobiography about eating croutons and ranch dressing out of a cereal bowl as a kid. It’s been years since I read the book, I’m not sure if I’ve ever remembered that detail since, but I get it. When only croutons will do. I’ve just added some lettuce and chickpeas here for show.

28/07/2020

Red Russian kale
being all fairytale.
@ Wicklow, Ireland

Address

Newcastle
Wicklow

Telephone

+353879013505

Website

http://www.kitchenandlarder.ie/

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