Cully & Sully are once again supporting gorta's SOUP FOR LIFE campaign so watch this space. Also check out www.soupforlife.ie Here's a lttle snippet from the web site:

GET READY TO SOUP IT UP!
Are you a budding Jamie Oliver? 
Or maybe you throw a pretty good party? 
Whatever it is, gorta needs your soupport!

Hi there,

I was chatting with a friend last night about Cheffactor and all the amazing contestants, entries, videos, recipes and fun that we had. We are all still in awe of the efforts that everyone went to. I just wanted to put up the link again to this video, which for me epitomized the amazing talents of all our Superstar Cheffactor Heros. It's well worth watching...... Sully

http://www.cheffactor.ie/content/amazing-super-stop-motion-video

Attention all coeliacs. We have been getting a lot of thanks from you guys for our gluten free products. We are delighted to be of help. To be honest in the early days we didn't even realise what we were doing, we just didn't add flour because although it has a place, it's not in soup! ...or at least the sort of soup that we like to produce. i don't thicken a vegetable soup with flour at home so why would I do it any where else.

Check him out!
http://tv3.ie/3player/show/155/42878/1/The-Morning-Show

We had a great night last Saturday at the chef-factor final, well done to Wayne on winning Chef-Factor 2011.

Here's a video of the final so you can get a glimpse of how it unfolded!

Finalists and entrants of the Cully and Sully Chef Factor competition joined their hosts and judges, Cullen Allen (Cully), Colum O'Sullivan (Sully) and Rachel and Darina Allen at the Grainstore at Ballymaloe for the Chef Factor Final

(Photo by Harty Photography)

The hardest thing with any product is keeping it right so we were delighted that our Mushroom soup satisfied the "tasters" in the latest soup tasting review in the Feel Good section of the Irish Examiner.

9 out of 10 and top of the pile!

Spent Sunday with my little sister who reared 2 pigs and it was time to bank them! We made about 500 sausages (before we ran out of skins!), a few sides of bacon and ham and Pete did his usual Spanish style cured Hamon de Ballintuber!

Here you can see the sausages drying on the clothes line so as they skins won't split when they are cooked. Check out face book for a few more photos.

Cully

Calling all cheffactor entrants and friends:
With the help of Donal Skehan, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital have just launched a campaign called "The Great Irish Bake" that calls for people to get back to basics and host a bake sale to raise funds for Temple Street. I thought this sounded like a great excuse to do some wholesome cooking! All the details are on www.thegreatirishbake.ie and they also have a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheGreatIrishBake?sk=wall

Best of luck.

Cully.

The quality of the entries in Cheffactor 2011 is really inspiring and fantastic. It is great to see so many people going to such an effort. So for all of yee out there who entered... keep those campaigns going, you have serious respect from myself and Sully.