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WOW!! 2025 was an amazing year!! ✅️🔥
I definitely made sure no stone was unturned this year & it`s really set the platform for 2026 🙌 For now let`s enjoy the moment to reflect & be grateful for all the years` achievements before the new year begins
I want to say thank you to all the local brands that have collaborated with me this year! I hope to keep growing and to keep promoting local brands
2025 ... ✅️
2026... 👀
🤝👨🍳
#thatsawrap #endof2025 #instachef #belfast #supportlocal
Christmas leftovers Salpicão (with an Irish Twist)
Salpicão is a classic creamy Brazilian Christmas salad, and if you’ve never tried it before, this is the perfect place to start. We love making ours with all the Christmas leftovers: turkey, ham, bacon, carrots, celery, apple and cranberries, all mixed through a creamy, tangy and sweet sauce. As an Irish–Brazilian couple, we added an Irish twist with cranberry sauce and Taytos instead of the traditional batata palha. It’s the ultimate leftovers dish, and once you try it, you’ll never look back 🇧🇷🇮🇪
We were kindly gifted our beautiful rolled and boned turkeys by butcher.ie where you can get the most wonderful selection of meats all delivered to your door. They even have a Brazilian section where you can find all your favourites like Picanha and fraldinha. We are super impressed with the quality, everyone raved about our turkey this year!
Don’t forget to save this recipe for later. 📌
Salad
400g cooked turkey, shredded
180g carrots, shredded
150g celery, very finely chopped
100g cooked ham, finely chopped
1 apple, grated or julienned
Juice of 1 lemon
½ cup dried cranberries, soaked in wine or Prosecco for 15min and drained
1 tbsp + 1 tsp cranberry sauce
Dressing
¾ cup natural yoghurt
¾ cup mayonnaise
¼ cup double cream
Salt, black pepper and Aromat, to taste
A small squeeze of lemon
Topping
50g streaky bacon, fried until crispy and crumbled
mrtaytoireland Irish crisps, crushed (for sprinkling on top)
Method
Slice or grate apple, toss with lemon water and ice cubes. Soak cranberries in wine for 15 min, drain. Mix turkey, carrot, celery, ham, apple and cranberries. Mix yoghurt, mayo, cream, cranberry sauce and seasoning. Combine. Chill 30 min. Fry bacon until crisp, drain and crumble. Top with bacon and crushed Taytos before serving.
Salpicão / chicken salad / turkey salad / leftover ideas / Brazilian food
Merry Christmas Eimear, hope ye had a great day 🎄♥️🎄
#christmas #turkey #food #2026 #irishboomer 🇮🇪
We’ll let the internet sort this one…….🇺🇸🤨🇮🇪
#usa #ireland #food #bordbia #irishboomer 🇮🇪
With pasta or potatoes 🇮🇹🤔🇮🇪
#pasta #potato #food #homecooking #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Day 18 - Turkey & ham
This is going to be a long one, trust me it`s worth it 🎄
Turkey butter
100g dromonamakesit butter
2 tsp boredoflunch chicken salt
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp thyme
Brine your Turkey for 6 hours before roasting
For every 100ml of water add
3g salt
3g sugar
1 tsp thyme
2 cloves of garlic
1 bay leaf
1/4 onion
After brining the bird and then stuffing the skin with your butter, add more aromatics to the skin, you can change these flavours up if you wish
I used a _safefood.net_ guidelines using a temperature probe and cooking to 75 degrees and then resting the bird with tinfoil over it for 1 hour on the kitchen counter before carving
Ham
I used the slow cooker on high for 4.5 hours, covered the ham in warm chicken stock, and added herbs and spices of your preference. Take the ham out and let it rest, from here you can carve it as is or you can rub honey and mustard on the fat and roast it in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 190degrees or until golden and sticky
Save this recipe for later, it might just be your best Christmas dinner yet
Enjoy 🧑🍳
#turkeyandham #christmasdinner #festivecooking
pollypocketsy sometimes you just gotta cut corners and do a handy dinner 🍽️
Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof 😉
#spicebag #german #irish #homecooking #fyp #fakeaway #currysauce #bordbia #ireland #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Day 14 - Festive Yorkshire Pudding 🎄
This year everyone has been going mad for festive chips and filled Yorkshire so here is mine 😍
Save this video and use these recipes later 👇
Yorkshire
200g mortonsflour plain flour
200g spar_ni milk
200g eggs
190 degrees for about 12-14 minutes
Roasties
Pick up a pack of glensofantrimpotatoes perfect for range sainsburys and scan the qr code on the back for a full recipe on making the best roasties! 🥔
Enjoy 🧑🍳
#festiveyorksirepudding #easyfestiverecipes #crispyroastpotstoes
Bravo buddy, fair play to you 👏🏻
I genuinely believe that the way to beat obesity globally is a return to home cooking and a move away from processed foods.
Cooking has been vilified in recent years with corporations pushing an agenda they modern families shouldn’t have time to cook and should avail of convenience foods and focus on more important things!
That combined with a massive increase in the availability of fast foods from takeaways to forecourts with deliveries to your door you people are losing the ability to cook and it’s seen as a chore.
Walk into any primary school and ask kids to name vegetables or identify meat and they can’t because it’s all prepackaged sanitised trays of meat that kids cannot reconcile with any animal, they can’t tell lamb from beef or chicken from pork.
If we moved back to cooking at home together using fresh ingredients cooked from scratch we’d feel better, enjoy our food more, enjoy more family time together and it would seriously impact obesity rates.
It’s an important life skill and it’s slipping away 🥺
#obesity #cooking #food #homecooking #family #lifeskill #bordbia #irish #fyp #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Day 9 - Bokkeumbap🍚🍖
My take on a Korean classic, this would be perfect with leftover ham from Christmas Here`s what I used
Kimchi honey gogi_belfast
Gogi hot sauce
Christmas ham butcher.ie
Onion
Garlic
Ginger
Cabbage
Spring Onion
Carrot
Microwave rice or 1 day-old rice
1 fried egg
For the video for the method, hit up gogi_belfast for that beautiful kimchi honey, save the recipe and follow me for more great recipes
Enjoy 👨🍳
#koreanfriedrice #bokkeumbap #irishversion
Traditional Irish recipe known as leprechaun lamb, this was served to Saint Patrick by the Druids and is depicted in the book of Kells as a zoomorphic winded beast known as the Boomer Beast…..
#truestory #bookofkells #irish #homecooking #ireland #fyp #bordbia #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Day 1 - Christmas Chip 🎄🥔
I love a good Christmas chip so why not give this a go!!
Save this recipe for when you have some leftover turkey and ham that you want to use up over the festive period. Give this reel a like, follow me for the next 25 days for a new festive recipe every day 🎄
If you scan the QR code on glensofantrimpotatoes "the perfect for" range packaging in sainsburys you will get the perfect chip recipe reel.
Enjoy 👨🍳
#BelfastChristmas #NorthernIrelandEats
#BelfastFoodie ChristmasTreats
IrishFoodLovers
I identify as an Irish granny if that helps 😉👵🏻☘️
Here’s on my granny used to make me, savoury mince and potato farls ♥️
#potatocakes #potatofarls #savourymince #homecooking #granny #irish #thanksgiving #bordbia #ireland #food #fyp #irishboomer 🇮🇪
This was stunning 🤤
#pork #homecooking #meat #irish #bordbia #food #ireland #fyp #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Honey glazed ham baked in cider 🍖
This is my way of doing ham for Christmas, you can prep in advance and have it ready to throw in the oven for 45mins on the day 🎄
#christmas #ham #glazed #tutorial #homecooking #irish #bordbia #ireland #fyp #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
How many could you eat? 🍝
#meatballs #pasta #homecooking #irish #fyp #bordbia #ireland #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Chicken or lamb? 🍗🤔🐑
(I’m team lamb💪🏻)
#chicken #lamb #homecooking #irish #fyp #bordbia #ireland #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
This crackling is the elixir of life 🤤
#crackling #pork #elixeroflife #irish #homecooking #fyp #bordbia #ireland #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
There’s loads of ways to make gravy, I have a video up showing the ‘proper’ way using bones and flour & butter to make a roux etc, but typically I just collect all the meat juices and thicken with gravy granules.
I always cook my meat on a bed of onions, others use carrots, parsnips or potatoes but I find they suck up all the juices and don’t release them back, the onions do, you can squeeze every last drop out of them and they add a delicious flavour 👌🏻
#gravy #homecooking #bisto #irish #beef #fyp #bordbia #ireland #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Dublin Coddle, on the internet, sure what could go wrong…….🫣
#coddle #dublincoddle #ireland #food #bordbia #irish #cooking #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Another one for the thanksgiving series, this time it’s a turkey fillet 🦃
I love turkey fillet, there’s no waste, you don’t have the challenges of cooking a full bird and it’s a wonderful centrepiece for thanksgiving.
I butterly and stuff the breast but your butcher will do that for you.
Sorry to all the butchers who see this, they’ll be roaring at their phones when they see me trying to tie this up 🫣
Thanks to the folks at butcher.ie for the delicious meat 🦃
#thanksgiving #butcher #turkey #homecooking #irish #fyp #bordbia #food #ireland #recipe #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Cottage Pie 👌🏻
#cottagepie #beef #irish #bordbia #fyp #ireland #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Oxtail & fufu 👌🏻
#oxtail #fufu #homecooking #african #irish #food #bordbia #ireland #fyp #cooking #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Love your art bro 👌🏻🖼️👏🏻
In my case the plate is the canvas for my art, always white and always round (except in this case where I used my granny’s bowl 👵🏻🥣♥️)
#art #food #artist #homecooking #ireland #fyp #bordbia #irish #recipe #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Rissoles!!
Or what do you call them?
No waste in this house, leftover brisket ground up and mixed with mash, herbs, onions, butter, a great way to use leftover cold meat 🥩
#rissoles #nowaste #irish #homecooking #fyp #bordbia #ireland #leftovers #food #brisket #cooking #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Guinness Brisket Birria Tacos 🌮
Cooked low and slow for many hours in Guinness stout 🍺
#tacos #birria #brisket #guinness #homecooking #bbq #irish #fyp #bordbia #ireland #food #usa #irishboomer 🇮🇪
BRISKET BABY!!!
What am I making 🤔🔥🥩
#brisket #prep #bbq #homecooking #usa #irish #fyp #bordbia #ireland #meat #beef #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
Steak & eggs 🥩🍳
Does it need spuds? 🥔
#steak #eggs #homecooking #irish #fyp #bordbia #ireland #chickensofinstagram #food #irishboomer 🇮🇪
It’s a long one but lots of people have asked me for a turkey tutorial for thanksgiving.
So here you go, from start to finish my recipe for stuffed roast turkey (thanks to butcher.ie for the magnificent bird) 🦃
This video is way too long to get pushed onto feeds so please do me a favour and drop a comment and let me know where you’re watching from 🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇸
#turkey #thanksgiving #homecooking #ireland #bordbia #recipe #tutorial #irish #butcher #food #holidays #cooking #irishboomer 🇮🇪
