Sully's blog

Hello

Hi there,

It's been soooo long since I've updated this and so much has been going on. We have a new addtion to our team - Rena who is wonderful. Rena will be helping us develop new products and make us more methodical as we tend to be a bit all over the place (Cully that is!!). We've also now finally, finally got our pies tasting exactly the way we want them to taste.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

We all can't wait till Christmas- it's been an incredible year, which definitely has been the busiest and fastest year of our lives. Moving our production from France back to Ireland was our biggest event this year, which went well, but we did have some teething problems which are now resolved.

Winning the Global Sial d'Or award in Paris in October was FANTASTIC and has been our greatest achievement to date, so that was great. We also launched a new Full Bodied Vegetable Soup, which is going really well - it replaced our Mediteranean Vegetable Soup, which we found very difficult to sell.

Check out this video of us in Nepal

Check out this video of us in Nepal

Our New Pieeeeesssssss!

Hello,

We've been keeping it a kind of secret but we can't keep it secret any more...... We've re-launched our entire pie range- Yeahhhhh

When we started out 4 years ago this month, we developed a range of pies using a French cooking method called sous-vide, which translates into 'under vacuum'. We learnt about this cooking method from a fanastic man called Ronan Gormley who works in the National Food Centre in Teagasc, Dublin. He recommended that we learn about it & so off we went to France, where we met an amazing food producer called Fleury Michon based in the Loire Valley.

This is scaryyyyyyy………

Check this out. Cul tried it and it didn't work but we reckon if we try it using Skpe to dial all the phones it may work. Do let us know if it works for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI&feature=related

How to separate 2 cups

Last night we had an issue separating 2 cups (mugs!) -one had got stuck inside the other.

Ivan to the rescue!

A Lovely Email from Margaret

Hi Cully and Sully

I am just mailing to say thank you for such a wonderful food experience!
I very very rarely buy ready made meals and if I have to I would go to M&S for their 'cook at home' range.  Not any more!
I tried one of your soups about a year ago and was impressed, then one night recently after leaving work after 10pm, starving and desperate for food, I took a chance on your Atlantic Salmon with Sorrel Sauce meal because the soups had been so good.

How to peel an egg

A friend emailed this link to me last week on how to peel an egg - it is hysterical.

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Then we tried it - which is hilarious - but watch the above one first - this guy makes it look so easy and believable!

Hello Greece

Hello- This is what is amazing about the internet. We received an email last Thursday from a gourmet shop in ATHENS looking to stock our products. I just think that's amazing! Anybody going to Greece???

Hi guys,

we have a gourmet shop in Athens,Greece, and we are wondering if it's possible to have your products to retail.

Thanks in advance

yiannis&teti

A bit of fun

This is an email we received from Aoife the other day and is hilarious:

What can happen if a wife or girlfriend drags her husband or boyfriend along shopping..........     

This letter was recently sent by a supermarkets Head Office to a customer in Oxford:     

Dear Mrs. Murray,     

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