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!

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

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.

I'm no expert on this but alas, some lovely customer sent us in the Weight Watcher points for all our Pies, Soups and Hotpots. I believe they are very good but please let me know if you think any of the points are wrong.

Otherwise I hope every ones enjoying all the wild blackberries growing in the hedges. I believe they are low in points too!

CULLY

We'll festival season is over for another year it seems and we have had great fun meeting loads of our customers from all walks of life... both at Electric Picnic and at "The Ploughing". I feel like i've been living in the midlands for the past while, I'm almost a local! Having said that, my mother is from Durrow so it must be buried in me somewhere.

Any of you guys who left us you're email address for ChefFactor, you should have got an email from us telling you exactly how to enter

We were asked to judge and provide a prize for the Campervan Cook-off at Vantastival. What craic! First though, I do not recommend this for the faint hearted, we're talking seriously high standards here!

So for some reason every one was in a combi, don't ask me why, and they were given: rice, a banana, some mince, a pepper, chickpeas, a chili, an onion, a tin of tomato, cream and wild garlic and they had 45 minutes to come up with something pretty sensational!

1st prize was a trip to Ballymaloe Cookery School to learn how to make their own smoker and a few recipes to beat!