Albert Roux is well known not only in culinary circles but now also in every home due to the popularity of TV cooking programs. He ran three times Michelin Star restaurant Le Gavroche with his brother Michel. Yesterday he was in Dublin celebrating Irish Food and remembering fondly his holidays on the Ring of Kerry over a 10 year period.

– Recipe from Karen Coakley of The Kenmare Foodies

I have been set a challenge and don’t we all love a challenge in January. The challenge is to write a blog post for The Ring of Kerry website and a recipe for something that is low in fat, healthy, cheap and relates to Kerry!

Guest post for The Ring of Kerry by Kenmare Foodies, Karen Coakley and Derick McMahon.

We are very lucky to have worked for the past two years on Kenmare Food Carnival with one of our true Ring of Kerry Artisans, Benoit Lorge of Lorge Chocolatier. Benoit is an award winning Pastry Chef, who creates high quality chocolates for gourmet shops and high class hotels and restaurants. His chocolates are handmade in Bonane, just 5 Km from Kenmare on the Glengarriff road and are distributed nationally.

Guest post for The Ring of Kerry by Kenmare Foodies, Karen Coakley and Derick McMahon.

I recently discovered a recipe that I want to share more than any other recipe I have ever come across…. I moved to Kerry 13 years ago, I took a leap of faith with my husband and our then two sons, we have since invested and have added two Kerry babies to the pack. The leap wasn’t one that spanned oceans or continents but it crossed an even bigger divide, that of the Cork and Kerry border.

Guest post for The Ring of Kerry by Kenmare Foodies, Karen Coakley and Derick McMahon.

Once in a while it takes something special, maybe a place, a person or a community to make really good food. Food that is sustainable, has a low impact on the environment, food that is understood by those who love what they do and who have a deep respect for their surroundings and ecosystem. You see last week we went on a boat trip…

Guest post for The Ring of Kerry by Kenmare Foodies, Karen Coakley and Derick McMahon.

I am writing this blog post on my deck as it is bathed in golden sunshine, it is reminding me of happy times that have passed, the welcome warm rays are what we all need after a winter that has brought us so much misery and hardship and wrecked and ruined our beautiful countryside with wave after wave of storms.