Virginia Road Station

Old Virginia Road Co. Meath T: 046 924 5110 | F: 046 924 5738 www.sheridanscheesemongers.com

IRISH FOOD FESTIVAL MAY 26TH

Workshops & More!

Sheridans Cheesemongers will host our fourth Irish food festival on Sunday 26th May, here at our Virginia Road Station headquarters in Co Meath. A huge array of Irelands top food producers will be here to sell, sample and talk about their wonderful foods. The idea of the event is to bring together the people who make the foods and the customers who love it. We will also have free childrens entertainment, live music and traditional fair games. This year we are also introducing a new feature The Brown Bread Tent. With baking, competitions, tastings and ingredients producers. There is a fee of 5 per car for entry in to the car park; everything else is free including music, kids workshops and entertainment. There is a free online registration systemin place for workshops The minimal costs allows our visitors to have a great family day out and spend any money they wish on great Irish food.

Brown Bread Tent

Ongoing demos will take place throughout the day on making brown bread which kids and adults alike can join in on. Introducing The First National Irish Brown Bread Competition
Any home baker can enter with a traditional Irish brown bread which will be judged by an expert panel from 11.30am onwards, with prize giving taking place at 2.30pm!

Details on the competition and how to enter:

http://twitdoc.com/upload/sheridanscheese/sheridans-food-festival-2013-bown-bread-competition-entryform.pdf

Local Schools Brown Bread making competition 11 11.45 (prize giving in afternoon)
A team representing each school will make brown bread under the guidance of Pauric White from The Forge restaurant to be judged later in the day! The local schools will also enter pictures of home baking which will be displayed in the brown bread tent.

Workshop / Demo: Baking Traditional Irish Brown Bread 2pm

with Maura Sheridan (Kevin & Seamuss Mammy) and Richard Graham-Leigh, baker of Sheridans Brown Bread Crackers.

Producers of essential ingredients; Flour and Buttermilk on hand also throughout the day.

Workshops Main Workshop Tent

Baking with Kids with Nessa Robins 12.30 1.30pm
Nessa Robins of Nessas Family Kitchen Blog and author of Apron Strings will be on hand with a twist on bun making the kids will get to cook carrot cake buns and top them with cream cheese icing, Nessa will also make smoothies with the kids whilst the buns are baking!

Sausage Making with Ed Hick

2 2.45pm

Ed Hick, Master Pork Butcher will be on hand to tell us all about the sausage! How he makes his, and how some of the larger companies make theirs. Intrinsic to this workshop will be a hands on demo of how to make sausages. Great workshop for all the family to attend!

Irish Cheese and Irish Craft Beers

3 3.45

Kevin Sheridan, along with Eight Degrees Brewery will match up a range of Irish farmhouse cheeses to accompany the fantastic craft Beers from the eight Degrees Brewing Company making a truly homegrown pairing. Kevin will give a background on all the cheeses, and how they are made and Eight Degrees will take sus through the basics of how their beers are brewed, the differences between them, and what makes craft beers and microbrewery produce som different from their mass produced counterparts

Future of Fish with Pauric White

4 4.45pm

Everything you need to know from what is sustainable fish to how to buy it, to what you can ask your fishmonger to do and then of course how to cook it!

Sausage Taste Test 5.30pm Hosted by Journalist and RTE TV Ear to the Ground Presenter Ella McSweeney
Following from Ed Hicks workshop on sausage making and Pauric Whites guided tour on self sufficiency featuring his own piggies there will be a taste test with all welcome comparing commercial sausages made with high levels of additives to the real thing! This will tie in many aspects discussed in the various workshops based on the theme of seeking out and using natural high quality foods, well have sausages on show from many of the butchers who have stalls at the festival as well as an opportunity to taste the sausages made at Eds earlier workshop.

Outdoor Guided Trips

Wild Foods & Foraging with Enda McEvoy 1.30pm - 2.15pm
A local walking tour to identify wild foods we can forage and how to use them

Self Sufficciency with a trip next door to the Forge with Pauric White 4.55 5.30pm
Pauric keeps pigs, grows vegetables, generates electricity and tries to keep the site where he runs his restaurant as productive as is possible

In Our Shop
Cheesemaker Tastings all day long as well as a coffee, tea and water pitstop!

Wine Tasting
Enrico Fantasia of Grapecircus @ Sheridans Wines will be on hand all day in the shop entertaining everyone and tasting a selection of old world wines!

Please Register Here To Attend the Workshops

https://sheridanscheese.ticketbud.com/sheridans-irish-food-festival-workshop-registration
Simply click the link, fill in your name and email address and specify the workshops you wish to attend. Note - The activities / workshops which require registration are as follows: Brown Bread Demo at 2pm, all those running in the Main Workshop Tent and the Outdoor Guided Trips. Everything else is a drop in format. You can bring alomg your ticket either in print or on your smartphone for scanning.

For queries you can contact Elisabeth Ryan: eryan@sheridanscheesemongers.com