Sundays at Ballymaloe

The Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork

This week brought with it lots of sunshine and a weekend road trip to Cork.

Chilling out by Garnish Island

Ballymaloe House

Sunday was spent at Ballymaloe House in Shanagarry; a beautiful family-run country house hotel that sits on a one-hundred acre organic farm. In addition to the house and farm, Ballymaloe is also well-known for it's cookery school which has churned out a whole load of famous chefs and tasty food over the years. 

After exploring the beautiful gardens and grounds and picking up a few bits in the shop, it was time to get stuck into some lunch. We went for the smoked fish plate, which consisted of smoked salmon, trout, fish paté, salad, lightly pickled cucumber, and a generous pile of freshly toasted bread... 

..which we clearly enjoyed.

This was followed up with a hot cup of tea and a shared slice of cake (it'd be rude not to). This was their fig, date, ricotta and cashew cake and it's safe to say that this was also a definite hit. It was freshly baked and completely delicious. 

Now to track down the recipe.

I hope that you all had a lovely weekend whatever you got up to.

Photos all my own.