Arnotts Cook Month

On Monday 13th May, Dublin department store Arnotts in association with Miele, Kenwood and Expert Electrical launched their inaugural "Arnotts Cook Month". During the next few weeks a series of exciting in-store events and demonstrations will take place as Arnotts, Miele and Kenwood will host a selection of well-known Irish chefs, such as Clodagh McKenna, Neven Maguire, Edward Hayden, Domini Kemp and Oliver Dunne joined by food writers and bloggers Sophie Morris and Ron and Mona Wise. For full schedule of events/ demonstrations look here Arnotts Cook Month

I am a big fan of Neven Maguire. I've got a few of his books and love trying out his recipes, up to now every single one of them has been a success! Neven uses ingredients that are widely available and his dishes are easy to recreate at home. Last Christmas Mr PB presented me with a gift card for Neven's restaurant in Blacklion, County Cavan which we will be visiting next month, I'm sure we are in for a treat!!!

I couldn't pass up an opportunity to see Neven "in action", so I went to Dublin city centre on Thursday afternoon to watch Neven doing a cookery demonstration in Arnotts Henry Street window.
As I expected, Neven was fabulous; funny and entertaining, full of passion for food which he tried to share with the audience but to be honest I didn't really like the window demo setup. We could see Neven making all this amazing dishes but we could't smell anything, Neven was not able to hear us and although we are in the middle of May it was cold and wet and after 20 minutes I was freezing!!!!!

Still, the demonstration was fantastic. Neven made prawns in kataifi pastry for starter, Thornhill duck breast served with cabbage, sweet potato fondants and honey & cloves sauce for main, passion fruit jelly with yoghurt as a palate cleanser, cute mini creme brulees and MacNean cheesecake with Coole Swan, white chocolate and strawberries.
Everything looked delicious and I'm planning to make all of the dishes at home for a special Sunday dinner.