FOR those who have an interest in food and a concern about food issues, the last Thursday of every month is worth marking in your diary – Cork Free Choice Consumer Group will have a speaker at the Crawford Art Gallery from 7.30pm to 10pm.

Serves 4

Super Sprouts: Patrick and Ronite Ganiger sell eight varieties of organic sprouts: mung beans, aduki beans, green lentils, brown lentils, puy lentils, sunflower seeds, chick peas and soya beans. Sprouts are one of the super foods.

Recipe for Nettle Tea

JUST last week I overheard a conversation of two young mums who had children’s birthday parties looming. This year one of them had decided to cook a few goodies herself – she would make chocolate rice krispies and maybe a few fairy cakes, but wondered what else she could try herself.

Ingrediants:

Big sale of Rachel Allen’s electrical goods: Food mixers, food processors, juicers – all kinds of kitchen gadgets at special prices at Ballymaloe Cookery School Farm Shop. Tel: (021) 4646 785

Recipe for Aunty Pam’s Krispie Buns or Mini Rice Krispie Cakes

We all love cupcakes, kids, mums, grans, aunties…this delicious recipe was given to me by Corrie Armstrong, originally a student at Ballymaloe Cookery School and now one of our teachers.

I LOVE when another new Irish cookbook lands on my desk and this one is good news for the many Fishy Fishy fans.