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With close to 30 years of experience in the coffee and tea business, Bewley’s master coffee roaster Paul O’Toole has created some preparation tips and techniques to help you enjoy real fresh coffee. You can find roast and ground coffee in packs in nearly every supermarket across the country, so why not give it a try and enjoy a real coffee experience. Choose coffee that is 100 per cent Arabica, which is the highest grade of coffee available.

My neighbour offered me some of his new potatoes last week, and as there was a distinct lack of tasty goodies in the Shaw household for dinner that day I picked up the garden fork and filled a pot with freshly dug spuds. I was not sure of the varieties but after 15 minutes steaming I saw that they were all beautiful floury types, with their jackets bursting open.

The Phoenix Palace are bringing their take on oriental cuisine to Ballinrobe, and this venture promises to delight the taste buds of an oriental food cuisine enthusiast and the general public at large. With everything on offer from their special Thai menu through a mouth-watering main course selection along with the chef’s recommendations and a full range of European dishes, there promises to be something for everyone.

Action Week on Disability takes place this month, and one Galway company is already planning to promote pizza parties in aid of Enable Ireland.

In celebration of a very unusual date this week being the ninth day of the ninth month, 2009, Domino’s Pizza has decided to hold a 999 day.

The Magnetti family was one of the first to set up an Italian restaurant in Galway, and that was the original la Trattoria in Cross Street in 1989. They moved to their current location in Quay Street in 1994 where, if I remember correctly, Craughwell Electric started out. In fact they had a 20 year anniversary party earlier this year and everything on the menu was priced at 1989 prices! It is now run by the second generation of the Magnetti family and the emphasis is on authenticity. All the pastas and all the sauces are made by themselves and it shows through in the taste.

The sweet potato, or boniato, is in fact not a potato at all, but a member of the morning glory family. This versatile vegetable has a great many uses and makes a refreshing change from the traditional spud. The sweet potato is ideal for roasting, making soups, for purees, and many more culinary uses. Additionally the bright orange colour of the vegetable tells us that the sweet potato is also a good source of carotene and vitamin A. Additionally this vegetable is regarded as the most important tropical root crop in the world. Introduced into Africa, possibly by slave traders, the sweet potato has since its introduction steadily replaced the true yam in Africa as a major source of carbohydrate.

Neven Maguire, one of Ireland’s best known chefs, says that lamb is “both delicious and easy to cook”. To celebrate their autumn lamb promotion, Bord Bia have developed a range of delicious lamb recipes for every day of the week. Below is one of the recipes available. For a quick midweek meal try ‘Spiced Meatballs with Chilli Tomato Sauce’.

Pork pitta pockets

Roast rack of lamb with herb crust