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State Dinner

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  • 16-05-2011 12:18am
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone know whats on the menu for the state dinner during the royal visit this week?

    Such occasions are often used to showcase the best cuisine a country has to offer.

    Who's the lucky chef ?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Plowman


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  • Registered Users Posts: 39,420 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Plowman wrote: »
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    Was this not a clue?
    Michelin-starred restaurant Chapter One


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Plowman


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭diddlybit




  • Registered Users Posts: 39,420 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Plowman wrote: »
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    The part I highlighted included the fact that it was starred as well as the name of the place. As above, google easily gets you the menu.

    Also, the fact that you think Heston Blumenthal might not be suitable for a state dinner is ridiculous. He is more than capable of cooking for formal occasions and not everything he does is similar to snail porridge and the rest at The Fat Duck.

    And by the way, he was hired last year to cook for a very small private function for the Queen who was impressed when she seen his moelcular gastro stuff but couldn't try it as she can't eat in public. His starter, a dish that looks like a fruit salad but is actually sweatbreads, offal, brains and testicles


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  • Registered Users Posts: 22,778 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    And back on-topic about the Irish State Dinner please.

    Thanks,

    HB


  • Registered Users Posts: 39,420 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Sorry HB,

    So anybody get a look at the menu yet?
    any guesses, i imagine beef or lamb in a wet dish, maybe native game as an starter


  • Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭S.R.F.C.


    They mentioned on the coverage yesterday what she was having, can't remember all of it as boxty was mentioned and took all my attention!


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,778 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Quote from an article in The Sunday Indo:
    Ross Lewis, the chef from the Michelin-starred restaurant Chapter One, is devising the menu for the dinner, which will take place in Dublin Castle. The menu -- to be revealed on the day -- will emphasise an Irish theme with locally sourced meat, fish and cheese.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    RTE Website
    Here are the details of this evening's dinner and entertainment:

    Menu

    Cured salmon with Burren smoked salmon cream and lemon balm jelly, horseradish and wild watercress, Kilkenny organic cold pressed rapeseed oil


    Rib of Slaney Valley Beef, ox cheek and tongue with smoked champ potato and fried spring cabbage, new season broad beans and carrots with pickled and wild garlic leaf

    Carrageen set West Cork cream with Meath strawberries,
    fresh yoghurt mousse and soda bread sugar biscuits,
    Irish apple balsamic vinegar meringue

    Irish Cheese Plate

    Tea and Coffee

    Château de Fieuzal, 2005, Graves Pessac-Léognan


    Château Lynch-Bages, 1998, Pauillac


    Executive Chef: Ross Lewis
    Caterers: With Taste

    Food suppliers

    Smoked salmon - Brigitta Hedda-Curtin, Burren Smokehouse, Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare

    Salmon - Clare Island organic salmon, Clare Island, Co Mayo

    Lemon balm - Paul Flynn, The Tannery cookery school gardens, Dungarvan, Co Waterford

    Organic cold pressed rapeseed oil - Kitty Colchester, Drumeen Farms, Co Kilkenny

    Wild watercress, cabbage, carrots, chive flower and garlic leaf -
    Denis Healy Farms, Co Wicklow

    Rib of beef - From a farm in Co Wexford, produced by Kettyle Irish Foods, Drumshaw, Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh

    Ox cheek and tongue - M & K Butchers, Rathcoole, Co Dublin

    Black pudding - McCarthys of Kanturk, Kanturk, Co Cork

    Potatoes and spring onions - McNally family farm, Ring Common, Co.Dublin

    Butter, milk, cream and crème fraîche - Alan and Valerie Kingston, Glenilen Farm, Drimoleague, Co Cork

    Irish apple balsamic vinegar and apples - David Llewellyn,
    Llewellyn orchard, Lusk, Co Dublin

    Strawberries - Pat Clarke, Stamullen, Co Meath

    Milk - Cleary family, Glenisk, Tullamore, Co Offaly

    Dittys Irish oatmeal biscuits - Robert Ditty, Belfast

    Stoneground wholemeal flour - Kells wholemeal, Bennettsbridge, Co Kilkenny

    Buttermilk and butter - Cuinneog Ltd Balla, Castlebar, Co Mayo

    Irish Cheeses

    Glebe Brethan
    Produced by David Tiernan in Dunleer, Co Louth. Hard Comté style cheese made using raw cow's milk from the Tiernan's own herd of Montbéliarde cows.

    Cashel Blue
    Produced by the Grubb Family in Fethard, Co Tipperary. Semi-soft blue cheese, made using cow's milk from their own and selected neighbouring farms.

    Milleens
    Produced by the Steele Family in Milleens on the Beara Peninsula, Co Cork. Semi-soft, washed rind cheese made in a classic Munster style from pasteurised cow's milk.

    Knockdrinna
    Produced by Helen Finnegan in Stoneyford, Co Kilkenny. Semi-firm goat's milk cheese in the classic French Tomme style.

    White soda bread, brown soda bread, sourdough wheaten bread,
    Kerrygold salted butter and Glenilen unsalted butter.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    well what do you think of the menu? all irish produce no less..

    ******menu********

    Cured salmon with Burren smoked salmon cream and lemon balm jelly, horseradish and wild watercress, Kilkenny organic cold pressed rapeseed oil


    Rib of Slaney Valley Beef, ox cheek and tongue with smoked champ potato and fried spring cabbage, new season broad beans and carrots with pickled and wild garlic leaf

    Carrageen set West Cork cream with Meath strawberries,

    fresh yoghurt mousse and soda bread sugar biscuits,

    Irish apple balsamic vinegar meringue

    Irish Cheese Plate

    Tea and Coffee

    Château de Fieuzal, 2005, Graves Pessac-Léognan

    Château Lynch-Bages, 1998, Pauillac


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,778 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Royal Banquet thread merged with State Dinner thread.

    HB


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Great to see the food being sourced from so many different parts of the country, although as a Galway person, I am sorry to see that none of it came from my home county.

    However, we Galweigans are represented with the choice of Lynch-Bages on the wine list !


  • Registered Users Posts: 39,420 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Lapin wrote: »
    However, we Galweigans are represented with the choice of Lynch-Bages on the wine list !

    Think you are clutching at straws Lapin, how long ago did Lynch leave ireland, French all the way :D


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