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7. Irish Stew
Recipes for Irish stew run the length of your arm, there are thousands upon thousands of variations. Each household has a specific way of making this fine dish and each counters that their mother’s is the best. A simple rule of thumb is hock in what vegetables are lying around, just ensure you have lamb as your meat, none of this fancy beef business that some hostelries are offering up these days. A great filler on a chilly winter’s day.
6. Bacon & Cabbage
Fling the two and a heap of spuds into a large pot and boil the whole shebang together and then pour over a white sauce made up of flour, butter, milk and parsley. Oh! I’m ravenous simply writing about it.
5. Coddle
Oh my word! Coddle is mighty fine! Tasty, filling and nourishing and simple to get right. Layer the ingredients over and over again, in the largest pot you can procure and you and your lucky pals can dine as wealthy peasants! The ingredients are simply sausages, rashers, sliced onions, sliced potatoes, sausages, rashers, sliced onions, sliced potatoes, sausages, rashers, sliced onions, sliced potatoes, over and over again.
4. Supermacs Mighty Mac Meal
After a feed of porter - the Supermacs Mighty Mac Meal is the tastiest box of grub in the universe! Easy to procure, Supermac’s is Ireland’s McDonalds and it beats the socks off Ronald every time. Just follow the hordes of hungry revellers when the bars eventually stop pouring!
3. Full Irish Breakfast
A king’s feast, practically anything in the kitchen that can be fried on a massive plate surrounded by baskets of toast and pots of coffee and tea. Rashers, sausages, fried eggs, white pudding, black pudding, liver, brown soda bread, baked beans, mushrooms and the all important sole healthy tomato are heaped as high as your elbows and in you dig!
2. Abrakebabra Doner Meal
Pre-Celtic Tiger and before all the posh luxuries, exotic cuisine was brought to Ireland by the magnificently named Abrakebabra. Specialising in kebabs, the Doner is their flagship, a couple of stouts beforehand is a really great complement to this interesting meal.
1. Sweet and sour chicken balls, boiled rice and chips.
In a word - Heaven! And as Irish as Jack Charlton.
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