Mary Jo’s Waffles
There’s always great excitement as we head off on our Ballymaloe Cookery School tour — everyone reverts back to giggly schoolkids but although it’s a super fun day it’s all about garnering ideas that inspire the students. We visit a farmers’ market, artisan producers, fish smoker, farmhouse cheese maker, maybe a café and restaurant, or food truck.
This term, we started at Mahon Point Farmers’ Market — a sizzling ferment of brilliant ideas and myriad stalls selling predominantly local food. Where to start? The Old Millbank Smokehouse has a wonderful range of potato and fish cakes. Gorgeous pies — chicken and chorizo, steak and Guinness, roast vegetable and goat cheese, and scotch eggs from the West Cork Pie Company.
