Fried Steak

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups self-rising white cornmeal mix
• 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
• 3/4 teaspoon pepper
• 4 to 6 cubed steaks (about 1 1/2 lb.)
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups low-fat buttermilk (or whole milk)
• 1 slice bacon 
• 2 cups vegetable oil

Christmas Ham

Ingredients

Whole ham on the bone (approx 7 ½ lb/3.5kg)

• 4 tblsp irish mist
• 50 g brown sugar
• 4 tblsp irish whiskey marmalade
• 18 cloves

Bacon and Cabbage with Mustard Sauce

Ingredients

• 1.50 kg loin of bacon
• 1 carrot
• 2 celery sticks
• 2 leeks
• 1 tsp peppercorns
• topping
• 1 tblsp mustard
• 0.50 tblsp brown sugar
• 1 tblsp oven-dried breadcrumbs
• knob of butter
• mustard sauce
• 50 g butter
• 25 g flour
• 1 tblsp mustard
• 250 ml mixture cooking liquid and cream (½ & ½)
• 1 kg cabbage (finely sliced)

Irish Bacon and Cabbage

Ingredients

• 700 g back bacon (one piece)
• 2 kg potatoes
• 1 head of cabbage
• 60 g butter
• 3 tblsp white flour (heaped)
• 200 ml cream
• 200 ml white wine
• 200 ml cooking liquid
• 4 tblsp fresh parsley (finely chopped)
• 10 cloves
• 1 onion (roughly chopped)
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 tsp coarse ground black pepper

Bacon with Autumn Vegetable Slaw

Ingredients

• 1.50 kg bacon collar
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 bay leaf
• ingredients for the mash:
• potatoes
• milk
• cream
• butter
• freshly grated nutmeg
• salt and pepper

Free Range Turkey with smoked bacon and sage butter

Ingredients

• 1 11-14 lb turkey
• 2 lb butter
• 500 g chopped rogan's whiskey oak smoked bacon – rogans
• 1 bunch of chopped fresh sage

Guinness and Greenbean Casserole

Ingredients

• kg pounds fresh green beans, ends cut off
• 4 slices bacon, cut into 1/4 inch pieces
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 whole large onion ,chopped
• 2 oz butter
• 2 oz flour
• 500 ml whole milk
• 100 ml guinness
• 100 ml cream
• salt & pepper to taste
• pinch cayenne pepper
• 240 g grated red cheddar cheese
• 4 oz roast red pepper
• 240 g bread crumbs

Chicken casserole with Bulmers

Ingredients

• 12 rindless streaky bacon rashers
• 12 skinless and boneless chicken thighs
• 3 tblsp rapeseed oil
• 2 onions (cut into wedges)
• 2 sweet potatoes or 1 small butternut squash (peeled and cut into cubes)
• 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
• 2 tblsp plain flour
• 2 tblsp crab apple jelly
• 330 ml bottle of bulmers
• 300 ml chicken stock
• 1 tblsp chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 1 tblsp toasted flaked almonds
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• mashed potatoes, to serve

Braised Beef Cheek with Smoked Bacon

Ingredients

• 4 olive oil
• 250 g (9oz) pieces beef cheek, well trimmed (per person)
• 2 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
• 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
• 600 ml (1 pint) red wine
• 1.20 l (2 pints) beef stock
• 2 thyme sprigs
• 2 rosemary sprigs
• 150 g (5oz) piece of smoked bacon, rind removed and diced
• 150 g (5oz) button mushrooms, wiped clean
• maldon sea salt and freshly ground white pepper
• chopped flat-leaf parsley, to garnish

Creamed Spinach with Applewood Smoke Bacon & Caramelized Onions

Long Fusilli with Turkey & Sun Dried Tomatoes Recipe

Pumpkin and bacon kebabs

Free Range Turkey with smoked bacon and sage butter

Ingredients

• 1 11-14 lb turkey
• 2 lb butter
• 500 g chopped rogan's whiskey oak smoked bacon – rogans
• 1 bunch of chopped fresh sage

For the trivet

• 2 onions
• 1 head of celery
• 3-4 carrots
• 4 sprigs of rosemary
• 4-5 sprigs of thyme
• 2 l water

Ham and mushroom tagliatelle

Chicken and bacon pie

Chicken Breast Wrapped in Bacon

Ingredients

• 2 medium chicken breast of boned chicken
• 4 streaky rashers
• olive oil
• butter
• spinach
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 oz whiskey for, flame
• 1 lb baby potatoes
• 8 oz diced carrots
• 8 oz diced parsnip
• for the stuffing:
• 1 oz butter
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 3 oz leek
• ½ teaspoon mixed herbs
• dash of orange juice
• grated orange rind
• for the sauce:
• 4 oz port
• boil gently to reduce
• add lamb and veg stock
• salt and pepper to taste

Glazed Pork Steak with Butter Beans, Peas & Bacon

Ingredients

• 0.50 a pork steak
• 2 tblsp olive oil
• 15 g butter
• a bunch of mint leaves
• 1 tblsp caster sugar
• 15 ml white wine vinegar
• 25 ml extra virgin olive oil
• pinch of salt
• 2 tblsp tomato purée
• 1 tblsp soy sauce
• 1 tblsp red wine vinegar
• 1 tblsp honey
• 100 g butter beans (tinned)
• 100 g garden peas (tinned)
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tblsp créme fraiche
• 1-2 tbsp olive oil
• 70 g smokey bacon bits/ lardons, or full rashers to be chopped

Smoked Back Bacon with Boxty, Red Onion and Blackcurrant Jam and Steamed Greens

Ingredients

• reduced salt back bacon joint
• 1 packet steam fresh frozen broccoli, pea and sugar snaps, cooked as per pack instructions
• red onion and blackcurrant jam:
• 3 red onions (cut in half and finely sliced)
• 1 tin blackcurrants (drained and half of juice reserved)
• 3 tblsp soy sauce
• 2 pinches sea salt
• 3 pinches nutmeg
• 2 tblsp demerara sugar
• 2 tblsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 tblsp sunflower oil
• boxty (makes 8 cakes):
• 40 g scallions, finely chopped (3-4 times)
• 300 g grated raw potato
• 300 g baked potato (bake in oven at 200°c/gas 6 for 1 hour. scoop out insides and mash.)
• 100 g flour
• 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 10-30 ml milk

 

Chicken casserole with Bulmers

Ingredients

• 12 rindless streaky bacon rashers
• 12 skinless and boneless chicken thighs
• 3 tblsp rapeseed oil
• 2 onions (cut into wedges)
• 2 sweet potatoes or 1 small butternut squash (peeled and cut into cubes)
• 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
• 2 tblsp plain flour
• 2 tblsp crab apple jelly
• 330 ml bottle of bulmers
• 300 ml chicken stock
• 1 tblsp chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 1 tblsp toasted flaked almonds
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• mashed potatoes, to serve

 

Easy Bacon Black Bean Soup