Organico Shop & Bakery
Friday 24th 9 am till 5 pm (lots of fresh bread)
(Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues CLOSED)
Wednesday 29th 10am till 6 pm (no fresh bread)
Thursday 30th 9.30 till 6 pm (lots of fresh bread)
Friday 31st 9.30 till 6 pm (lots of fresh bread)
(Sat/Sun/Mon CLOSED)
Tuesday 4th January 9.30 till 6 pm (lots of fresh bread)
As normal after that!
Organico Cafe will closed on Thursday evening before Christmas (the 24th)
and will re-open on Thursday the
13th of January.
We have just started shipping our breads and cakes (although not the iced ones yet!) to the whole of Ireland – we have had inquiries over the years but have never actually worked it all out. Now we have found an excellent courier service (Fastways) who guarantee next day delivery if you order at the start or the middle of the week and take very good care of their parcels.
We take orders by email and will call for credit card details. The best idea is to order to fill your freezer (our breads and spelt scones freeze very well) with some treats on the side (our spelt chocolate chip cookies keep for minimum 2 weeks). We bag up everything for maximum freshness and of course everything is freshly baked on the day we send it so even if you don’t freeze it you will get 3-4 days out of a loaf (the Soda breads keep fresh the longest). For more information on our Bakery see here.
So here is our price list:
Spelt Breads and Cakes
Large Wholemeal Spelt (Organic Spelt Flour, Yeast, Sea Salt, Water) 3.90
Large White Spelt (Organic Spelt Flour, Yeast, Sea Salt, Water) 3.90
Large WM/WH Seedy Spelt (Sunflower, Sesame, Hemp, Poppy & Pumpkin Seeds added) 4.70
Large WM/WH Sourdough Spelt (SD culture & a small amount of yeast) 4.50
Spelt Seedy Soda (smaller loaf) 3.50
Spelt Sourdough Health Bread (small dense loaf, no wheat or dairy, lots of seeds, and spirulina; slice thinly and eat with hummus, cream cheese, pates) 3.75
Spelt Scones (brown with fruit; white with lemon) .95c
Savoury Spelt Scones (Cheese and herbs) 1.25 each
Spelt Chocolate Chip Cookies (Extra Large) 1.50
Spelt Ginger Bread (Dark Ginger) 5.50
Spelt Orange Chocolate Brownies 1.30
Spelt Christmas Cakes (large and small) and Mince Pies (small but very tasty):
(all yet to be priced; usually the Cakes are from €30 – €45 and the Mince Pies are €12 for 13)
Wheat Breads
Large Wholemeal 2.50
Large Granary (Wheat & brown wheat flour with a little rye flour and some whole grains) 2.50
Very Large Ballymaloe Nutritious Soda (Buttermilk, eggs, seeds…all the good stuff!!) 3.75
Postage: €10.50 for up to 30 kg
We work best if you order on a Friday for delivery on a Tuesday; order on Monday for Delivery on a Wednesday; and order on Tuesday for delivery on a Thursday. Last orders for the week would be order on Wednesday for delivery on a Friday.
If you need Spelt Cakes please ask for a quote – we make a delicious Chocolate Cake but you would need to ice it…
All the best from Organico Bakery! Please use our forms to make your first enquiry and we will email you back asap.
Our Granary Loaf is one of our most popular and it is very easy to make. A loaf for the whole family! By Rachel Dare
Makes 3 Loaves
1 kg/2 ¼ lb Doves Organic malted grain flour
500g/1 lb Doves Strong wholemeal flour
3 tsp sea salt
50g/ 1 ½ oz fresh yeast
3 heaped tsp molasses
850mls hand hot water, 3 tbsp olive oil and a little milk
Sesame, sunflower or poppy seeds to top loaf
Read more…
A new Irish Slow Food Convivium has been set up in Bantry, West Cork. The committee is made up of Anne O’Brien, from O’Connor’s Seafood restaurant, Eileen O’Shea, from The West Lodge Hotel, Val Manning from Manning’s Emporium Ballylickey, Cathleen Carter from Bantry House, Hannah Dare from Organico Bantry and Letty Baker, former Mayor and Convivium Leader.
The first event planned for the Bantry Bay Convivium is being held here in Organico Cafe on Sunday the 20th of April. The theme is a Spring Tea Party and we are delighted to have Myrtle Allen, the Eurotocque Chair, and Giana Ferguson from Gubeen to assist us to launch Slow Food in Bantry. Artist Martha Cashman (currently showing in Organico Cafe) will also talk about her work.
Organico Cafe will serve a menu crammed with delicious tea-time treats (we’re currently getting very excited aboutclotted cream…mmm…) and, of course, organic fair trade tea!
Tickets are priced at €10 and will very shortly be availabel from Organico, from O’Connor’s, from the West Lodge and from Val’s in Ballylickey.
Membership forms will be available from these places also, and on the Sunday afternoon we will be delighted to invite new members to join us in the Bantry Bay Convivium.
Our mission in Organico is quite simple – to supply quality organic food at an affordable price. Organico Bakery is part of what makes us proud to be in business – we bake with stoneground organic flour which makes our bread healthy and nutritious. We also bake extensively with spelt – our customers tell us that before they found our spelt bread they couldn’t eat bread without their digestion suffering. When we found that so many people were more healthy eating spelt, we started making all our cakes, brownies and cookies from spelt, as well as our pasties, pizza bases and scones.
We make 4 spelt yeast loaves – white and brown, and seedy white and seedy brown; 2 Californian Sourdough – white and brown; and our ‘Health Bread’ which is pure wholemeal spelt sourdough packed with seeds and spirulina. The Health Bread keeps for a week and is hugely popular with people who like nutty tasting nutritious bread.
To keep the cost of our breads affordable (while still paying our devoted baking team a reasonable wage) we try to keep the wastage down, so we nearly always sell out early in the day. If we don’t we sell the ‘next day’ bread at 20% off. even though it is still perfectly fresh compared to the ‘fresh’ old breads they sell in the supermarkets!
Our bread is mixed totally by hand, and we let it rise for much longer than most modern bakerys which gives a far superior texture and aids digestion. Our Health Bread takes 5 hours to prove! If kept airtight, our breads have great lasting power – at least 3 days.
We often take orders to fill people’s freezers if you don’t live in the area but would like to eat our bread regularly. Please call us on (027) 51391 to place and order or to enquire.
The irish Basket Makers Association is presenting a unique opportunity of free workshops and demonstrations of a range of traditional skills in Future Forests in West Cork, this Saturday.
Martin & Yvonne Flynn, local organic farmers and basket makers, are organising this Traditional Skills day at Future Forests in Kealkil on Saturday the 19th of May (2-6pm). The day is being presented by the Irish Basket Makers Association and will also feature demonstrations/workshops of thatching, coppersmithing, woodcarving, chairseating, pole-laithing, woodturning, garden structures, blacksmithing as well as a kids corner and an organic cafe (we are supplying some of the food from Organico Bakery). Admission is free, as most of these craftspeople are trying to raise their profile and share their knowledge. There will also be baskets for sale, like the one pictured here (we have baskets like this in Organico Shop – our customers love using them to shop with) as well as plants and trees and garden sculpture. From 9pm that night there will be caile agus craic with Johnny Coakley, Noel Burke and friends.
Future Forests is well signposted from Kealkil village and is 15 mins from Bantry, and is well worth a visit all on its own if you have never been there!
Organico Shop, Glengarriff Rd., Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland. Phone +353 (0)27 51391
In Organico Bantry more and more people are discovering our spelt breads, cakes and scones. the most recent addition to our range is a variety of savoury scones made with spelt flour. These are delicious with soup or with salad, and can be made in miniture for a party.
We follow a normal scone receipe but leave out the sugar. Instead we use a little salt, and add either chopped black olives and thyme, red onion and cheddar or corriander seeds, or onion and a little green chilli. It’s hard to give amounts because in some cases it depends on the saltiness (with olives say) or the strength of the chilli flavour you want to achieve, but in general you want to err on the side of caution as often these savoury scones are made to be eaten along side another dish and you don’t want their flavour to be too dominant.
Other favourites include fetta and sweet chilli and black pepper and tomato. Watch out for more receipes over the next months!
Organic food is set to become one of the beggest food trends in Europe in this century, according to an article published in the Sunday Business Post (September 2005 By Suzanne Mitchell). She points out that Organic Baby Food now accounts for almost half of all baby food bought worldwide ( a figure which does not reflect how many parents feed their babies organically because many parents use organic ingredients to make their own babyfood). Furthermore, Mitchell points out that in Itlay local authorities are oblidged to include organic and quality products on their school menus. In the Uk over the last year many schools are trying to use organic suppliers in an attempt to clean up their image after Jaime Oliver lambasted them in his TV programme.
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In Ireland, the organic sector is growing by 10% per year (Mitchell got these stats a year ago – I think it has sped up since then.) Apparently this represent only 1% of the entire Irish food industry – worth an estimated 38 million in 2003. However if we follow European treads then it will be worth 4 times that by the end of this year.
Mitchell’s article is not entirely complimentary to the ‘organic philosophy’. She quotes many sources that question whether organic agriculture is better than conventional agriculture, and whether the resulting foods are better for consumers. She quotes the British Food Commission (2000) as saying:
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”Hundreds of organic products are coming on to the market, including highly processed jelly sweets, sugar-laden organic cereals, organic chicken burgers and even organic cigarettes.”
In Organico, we clearly do buy into the Organic Philosophy; but we also welcome articles of this sort that encourage consumers to question what they are being fed. Unfortunately many organic products are coming onto the market now that are just as harmful to health, if not to the environment, than non-organic foods. We still have to read labels and choose brands that w believe in, not just brands that shout the loudest through their adverts.
When buying for a Wholefood Shop you carry a weight of responsibility in terms of what you choose to stock, as many customers believe that if a product is on a Wholefood Shop shelf it is going to be beneficial for their health. Also, many of us are in this business because we want to sell positive products, so naturally we select the products we sell for their organic credentials – not just their packaging!
In Organico Cafe yesterday a customer commented on her roasted aubergine and chickpea curry saying that it smelt and tasted amazing. ‘I know why’ she said ‘it’s because it is un-polluted food’.
As I carried on serving lunch I reflected on her comment. I think it is an excellent way to describe our food. We are not trying to serve Cordon Bleu. What we are trying to do is serve tasty, nutritious, clean ‘un-polluted’ food.
Today, our menu contains the following:
Organic Lentil and Pumpkin Stew served with Spelt Bread
Roasted Organic Aubergine and Chickpea Curry served with Organic Brown Rice
Spelt Pizza with sundried tomatoes and Fetta served with 2 Salads
Lentil and Seed Loaf served with Fresh Tomato Sauce, Rice and 1 Salad
Shepherd’s Pie (topped with Organic local potatoes and a red lentil and vegetable base) Served with 2 Salads
Fetta Cheese Salad with either Organic Bulgar Wheat or Quinoa, Organic Tomatoes, Cucumber and Lettuce
Cheese sandwich: Local Gubbeen Cheese or Dubliner
Salad Selections: Wild rice, Quinoa, Bulgar, red Cabbage and Pumpkin Seeds, Beetroot and yoghurt, Potato, Thai Noodles (all made with organic vegetables, sprouts and seeds).
A selection of cakes and cookies from our Bakery, all made with Organic Spelt Flour and served with organic cream.
A selection of Fair Trade Organic Coffees and Teas.
Come over for Lunch sometime – and be sure to let us know what you think!