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I have been blogging about food for five years on www.valskitchen.com where i upload recipes and photos that I take of dishes that I make and create. I've been feeding my two sons with the best food I can find locally and we also grow our own organic veggies here at home in our yard and on the flat roof of our terraced house. My dream is to teach more people how easy it is to grow and cook our own food. The Ballymaloe course would equip me with the skills I need to work in this area.
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I invented this dish; Bacon and Cabbage Risotto during an argument with an Italian who claimed that there were no proper signature Irish dishes. I said that Bacon and Cabbage was one and he scoffed, saying there was no way that it could be made appetising for a wider audience. The result is this, a tasty, luxurious take on an Irish favourite. Simple ingredients of rice, onions, garlic, bacon rashers and your favourite cabbage combine with some Desmond cheese to make a new European 'classic'.
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Well done Valerie, you tell those Italians where to get off, with their pastas, risottos, Mamma's and we're the best cooks in the world..Hah!..they also gave us Berlusconi...best of luck. Gerard.
Best of luck with this great dish Val, bacon & cabbage is absolutely an Irish signature & great to see it refined & reinvented. Olivia
Best of luck to you my dear.
Look forward to tasting it sometime hopefuly soon.
Sounds really yummy !!
D.
Mmmm, looks dreamy!
Omg this sounds amazing and well done you kept it semi Irish, we loves our bacon and cabbage
Go on you food thing! Nice 2 see an equally food obsessed individual...bacon & cabbage is indeed the bees knees, great 2 hear of a tasty new way 2 eat it. Screw those Italians, "they know nothing!"
good luck val from france
dish looks stunning and i'm imagining the flavours combined with the auborro rice. Delicious
Hi Val, Wow !! what a beautiful magic twist to international food fusion you are truly inspirational (who would have thought bacon, cabbage & Rice being so delicious) , I am really proud of you this is a real winner . Your so hot !! in the kitchen. What other culinary surprises do you have up your sleeve ? ..................keep up your amazing work. Love John
I have seen people try to make the bacon and cabbage dish and fail miserably but this is a great idea. Best of luck and it looks absolutely yummy...
Kathleen
Well done Valerie, you have it all going on there girl! That just tastes divine, the luck of the Irish to you. Trish
Thanks everyone!!!
Val
i must try that one myself. Something tells me though it would take a few goes to get it looking that good!
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