Grandmother's Day

Now in it's 3rd year, we are celebrating National Grandmother's Day on Sunday 17th April, from 2pm in Hosford's Garden Centre in Bandon. Demonstrations on butter making, sausage making, lemonade making, baking with kids, drawing competition, fruit tree planting and more. Make sure you come and join us to celebrate this wonderful day.....and don't forget to bring your granny

Grandmother's Day in Hosfords

Slow Food's Annual Grandmother's Day took place across Ireland last Sunday. Cork City joined forces with West Cork and invited Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Grandchildren, Mummies and Daddies along. We had a fantastic turnout and the kids had lots of fun baking fairy cakes and brown bread with Mary and Christine from the Ballinascarthy Bakers and it was a joy to watch them marching into the kitchen of the Geranium Cafe where headchef Olive opened the oven for the little master bakers.

Peter Foyne from the Butter Museum in Cork City came and showed how to make butter in a jar as well as in a large kiln jar with a wooden whisk. I managed to snatch some of the butter up and let me tell you it was yummy with the brown bread.

John Hosford of Hosford's Garden Centre showed our guests how to start your own kitchen garden and the gathering around him showed that the interest is higher than ever to grow your own food.

Anthony Creswell from Ummera Smokehouse showed how to smoke bacon in a small home smoking tin but also explained how to smoke just using an old cake tin.

Dianne Curtin of West Cork Slow Food showed the kids how to make lemonade yourself and the kids simply loved it, they couldn't get enough of the sparkling juice and she had to repeat the recipe three times to be sure that everyone got a sip of the lemonade.

Olive Brennan offered a scrumptious afternoon tea with sandwiches and cakes which went down a treat.

Thank you to all involved helping to make this day so special. A special thank you to John Hosford who so generously opened his garden centre for us.

Grandmother's Day 2010

We are delighted to announce Grandmother's Day 2010 which will take place on Sunday, 25th April at Hosford's Garden Centre. In corporation with Slow Food West Cork, we will be celebrating Grandmothers, their wisdom, their knowledge and of course their recipes.

Come along to a day filled with fun, music and workshops. Ballinascarthy Bakers will bake fairy cakes and hopefully some soda bread, we also have lined up some amazing people to show us how to make homemade lemonade, chocolates and fudge. Children are more than welcome to get their little hands stuck in. Workshops will start at 1pm

A great competition is also taking place. We are inviting grandkids to bring along a recipe from their grandmother and write it down themselves and paint a picture showing the result. Dianne Curtin (food writer and chef) and Ruth Healy (of Urru) will judge and a great prize awaits the winner. So, go and get to nana's recipe collection.

Olive Brennan, head chef of the Geranium Cafe, will have old-fashioned afternoon tea on offer with little sandwiches and cakes from 3pm onwards.

No need to book - just come along and enjoy the day - and don't forget to bring nana with you.