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Wild Garlic Miso Pesto
In season, gluten and dairy free! 250g Wild garlic - mix of leaves and flowers 50g toasted sunflower seeds 50g cashew nuts 3 generous tsps of miso Olive oil 1 tbsp lemon juice salt and pepper to season Toast the sunflower seeds and leave to cool. Roughly chop the wild garlic. put all the ingredients in a blender, starting with... -
Slow Food Bantry Bay
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... -
Organico Cafe Showing Martha Cashman
'Mollie' from the exhibition entitled 'Womanagh' Showing from the 18th of March to the end of April 2008 In Organico Cafe Bantry. Martha on her own work: ''My work is a homage to the teachers of my past, the farm helpers and local women who visited and helped my mother in the house.Their understanding of the daily running of a... -
BBC drops information about Complimentary Medicine from it's health website
The following text is a summary of a letter circulated by my colleagues in the Irish Association of Healthfood Stores. It was written by an Osteopath called Mardi Jameson in the Brixton Center in London. I feel that this information should be made available to more than our mailing list. I first published it a couple of months ago, and... -
Black Gold showing in Bantry
Bantry Fair Trade group in support of fair trade fortnight is showing the documentary Black Gold on Thursday the 28th of Febuary in the Cinemax. Black Gold is a film by Nick and Marc Francis that highlights the plight of Ethiopian Coffee growers. The wedsite states: 'As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the... -
Art West Cork
Clouds West Cork The current exhibition in Organico Cafe is work by Anne Marie Mcinerney from Skibbereen, West Cork. Anne Maire's work has a wide range of influences, from the wild seas and wide skies of West Cork to drousy Italian vinyards. Anne Marie studied fine art in the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork and then went... -
Meditation in Bantry
Mindfullness meditation is starting in Organico Cafe in Bantry on Monday Febuary the 18th and running for 4 weeks. The evenings will be facilitated by Marjo Osterhoff, who trained in Burma and Thailand as a Buddhist nun before moving to Ireland. She now lives and works in Adrigole where she has a Meditation Centre. The classes will involve sitting and... -
True Food - Vitamin Supplements or Food?
Last week some of the staff in Organico were fortunate to attend a lecture training by Dr Smallbone, the man behind a range of vitamins called 'True Food' made by a company called Higher Nature. This was a real honour as we often get to talk to 'Representatives' or 'Trainers' but not often to the person who develops the products... -
Media Reviews of Organico - The Bridgestone Guide 2007
We are delighted with the review we recieved from John and Sally McKenna in the Bridgstone Guide 2007. We have always loved the Bridgstone Guide for the recognition John and Sally give to all the small food business in Ireland, so this review means a lot to us: 'Rachel and Hannah Dare's Organico is top-notch, 24 carrot, top-of-their-game. A superb... -
Spelt Spaghetti with artichoke, red onion and Cratloe sheep's cheese
I just made a delicious light dinner and would like to share the recipe...the inspiration came from the back of a jar or pate, so it's not all mine, but I have personalised it. It is a really quick fairly light meal (that kind of depends on how much pasta you serve yourself...) and is a great 'store cupboard staple...