Offbeat Salads

The Menu has finally given up his relentless badgering of the UN for some class of international intervention on behalf of the wonderful Deise County to negotiate a return to the stove for his excellent friend Mighty Michael Quinn, formerly award-winning head chef of Waterford Castle for nigh on 20 years. 

For those, like The Menu, struggling to cope without Quinn’s fine fare, the man himself will be manning the BBQ at T-Bay Surf Club, Tramore (July 23) cooking up local fish, O’Flynn’s beef burgers and offbeat salads as part of an early fundraiser for a cycling trek he’ll be making in August from Mizen to Malin on behalf of Waterford’s Solas cancer support centre. Speaking of ‘offbeat salads’, the inestimable Quinn, these days, up to his oxters in the teaching game at WIT, is giving some splendid one-off courses at The Tannery cookery school including a vegetarian course (Aug 9) with a big emphasis on healthy salads, pulses and seasonal veg and a Dairy/Wheat-free course (Aug 23), cooking with super foods, fruits, gluten-free flour, seeds, nuts, coconut and healthy protein. ( www.tannery.ie/cookery-school ) The Menu is now off to dig out his wet suit and the 4lbs butter that will be required to slide him into it — after all, he wants to look the part amongst all the surfers at the barbie!

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