Neven Maguire returns to our screens in the New Year with a brand new seven part series of his hugely popular Food Trails programmes.
Neven’s Irish Seafood Trails is his first series dedicated to seafood. His journey around Ireland takes Neven to Mayo,Cork, Donegal, Sligo,Kerry, Galway, Dublin and Kilkenny, as he discovers the very best of Irish seafood and braves some choppy waters!
Programme two: CORK
This week, Neven’s Irish Seafood Trails lead him to Co Cork. Starting in Baltimore, Neven takes a boat trip with Cornie Bohane, a local prawn fisherman. This is Neven’s first attempt at fishing for prawns, or ‘pink shrimp’, and Cornie shows him the techniques needed to haul a perfect catch. As the weather scuppers plans for a whale watching trip, Neven devises a delicious Plan B, enlisting Youen Jacob from the Waterfront Hotel to cook the prawns from earlier, which Neven then shares with Mícheál Cottrell, owner of the Baltimore Sea Safari.
Still in Baltimore, Neven meets Vicky Gilshenan, Head Chef at Casey’s Hotel who shows him how to dress a brown crab: an essential seafood skill.
Next, Neven calls in at the Woodcock Smokery in Rosscarbery to meet Sally Barnes: one of the country’s finest fish smokers. Sally demonstrates how she produces her acclaimed, traditionally smoked haddock: a West Cork delicacy.
Neven’s recipe this week is the delicious French fish soup, Bouillabaisse.
Neven’s Irish Seafood Trails is produced and directed by David Hare for InproductionTV and is sponsored by BORD BIA
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