I was in The Port House on South William Street over the weekend which is one of my favourite tapas places in the city. They do a delicious dish of Deep fried cubed potatoes served with a selection of sauces for €3.95 each. My favourite is the Patatas Mojo which is potatoes served with a [...]
25 Aug, 2010
Posted by: rercy in: Good Value | Main Meals | Recipes | Travel
Broke and busy, I couldn’t get it together to go away. Instead, I had this great plan to fool myself into thinking I was abroad by having a dish a day from holidays past. I did have two successful meals but a hundred and one things came up and I ended up barely sitting down [...]
I was one of the plebs caught up in the travel chaos the other week and marooned abroad because of the plume of ash. An extra week in the sun sounds rather nice doesn’t it? Well it was complete hell and there was no sun in the south of Spain because it was busy shining [...]
Black pudding is not for everyone but I think it’s absolutely delicious. I can understand, that if you are a vegetarian, the idea of consuming pigs blood is just revolting – even a little demonic – but as a meat eater I think it’s best to use the whole of the animal. Usually made from [...]
One of my all time favourite things to do is while away a Saturday afternoon nibbling food, drinking wine and people watching. Located on one of the Dublin’s busiest corners, The Port House on South William Street is the perfect place for such a whimsical lunch. I love this Spanish tapas bar and regularly feast [...]
23 Sep, 2009
Posted by: peter in: Main Meals | Recipes | Wednesday Wind-down
We’re delighted to be joined this week by another new face to CheapEats: top chef Garth McColgan. Every month, Garth will be contributing an exclusive column to CheapEats.ie, full of top tips on feeding your family on a budget. Garth knows a thing or two about cheap eats, having teamed up with Aldi to provide [...]
The Spanish restaurant Salamanca has been on Andrew St in Dublin 2 for a number of years, but I never got around to trying it until a couple of weeks ago. My lovely friend Catherine and I went to try out their lunch special. You can have a main and a tea/coffee for €10, or [...]
13 Jan, 2009
Posted by: rercy in: Ingredient of the Week | Light Meals | Recipes
Another recipe using this week’s featured ingredient: Chorizo! Chorizo boiled in cider For a quick and easy tapas style bite, chorizo boiled in cider is great. It’s important to choose a good quality cider so no Linden Village folks! This serves 6 as tapas and is great on bread. Ingredients 300g soft chorizo sausage 1 [...]
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