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WHILE THERE’S STILL a chill in the air, we’re craving all things carb-y, sauce-y and packed with flavour. And there’s one thing that ticks all the boxes: pasta. Lunch or dinner, baked or tossed, we have a serious love for pasta.
There are endless possibilities when it comes to flavour combinations. For me, one of my favourites growing up was penne cooked in a creamy sauce with ham and peas, which was a guaranteed warmer and will forever remind me of my childhood.
Whether you like a cream based sauce or something with a punchier flavour, we’ve rounded up some favourites below.
1. Sausage Meatball Pasta Bake, from Donal Skehan: A pasta bake is the ultimate comfort food for cooler weather. This is a real family friendly recipe- you could even add in a few more veggies if cooking for kids.
2. Baked Gnocchi with Chicken, Aubergine and Mozzarella, from Kenmare Foodies: Gnocchi is a handy alternative to other types of pasta as it cooks in half the time, and has a delicious texture. This recipe makes a great base and you could easily add in some chorizo or chili for even more flavour.
3. Chicken with Creamy White Wine Sauce, from Nessa’s Kitchen: This creamy chicken pasta is not just packed with flavour, but it can be on the table in just 20 minutes. Perfect for any last minute dinner parties.
4. Pasta e Fagioli, from Tasty Mediterraneo: Packed with beans, vegetables and pasta, this soup is a meal in itself. Served with cheesy garlic bread, this is perfect for a quick midweek meal.
5. Pappardelle with Lamb Ragu, from Nigella Lawson: The robust flavours in this meaty ragu makes it a great supper for those cooler nights. With some extra flavour complexity from mint, oregano and redcurrant jelly, this recipe is bound to impress friends and family.
6. Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Bake, from One Yummy Mummy: Broccoli and cheese are a classic comfort food combination and we love the simplicity of this bake by One Yummy Mummy. With its smooth sauce, full of flavour, this is bound to become a weekly staple.
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How do they get away with selling rotten fruit n veg?
Biggest eyesore of a street in the country.
@Fergus Fring: What ,what Fergus. One would want to pull one’s neck out.
@The Viking: It’s hideous. Cheap tat, cash for gold, second hand electronics shops and the street itself is constantly littered from street traders…
Next time you walk down it, take a look at these buildings with ‘historical significance’. Most of them have visible concrete blocks behind the windows on the second floor. Obviously no one living there because they’re so derelict and decrepit.
The street should be leveled and regenerated.
@Fergus Fring: Stay in Dundrum Town Centre if you don’t like character.
Quite a few negative comments on here. A bustling lively market is an asset to a city, an facility for shoppers and an attraction to tourists and in fact Dublin Tourism promotes the market but the reality must be disappointing to visitors. The market is being deliberately run down in order to facilitate the huge shopping centre plan — what some of the “level it and redevelop it” brigade no doubt would like — which is what most people do NOT want (and the Save Moore Street From Demolition campaign have the signatures to prove it).
Most of the street traders on Moore Street are fourth generation — one or two are fifth. The Council does not supply water, heating or light, only the meagre shelter of the stands. As Mary Kelly noted, no toilets either. They have a hard life and as Marie Cullen said, their children would not want it. But others might. However Dublin City Council will not issue any new licenses.
The small business shopkeepers also struggle, particularly those from the junction with Henry Place going north.
The Council provided large bins along the street and also street cleaning teams go up and down regularly (their depot is in Nos. 24/25). Recently they removed most of the bins and of course, cardboard boxes and paper do pile up and also blow along.
The buildings are deteriorating because the property speculator is waiting to demolish them (all except Nos.14-17, which are owned by the State).
An upgraded market and a walk-through historical experience in the upper floors would boost the area enormously. Kilmainham Jail, which the State was going to demolish until a community group began to renovate it, now attracts so many paying visitors that one needs to book or to check on line for a free space to chance turning up. That site requires a bus journey whereas Moore Street is right in the City Centre. There is a lot to attract visitors from other parts of Ireland and from abroad (who rate culture and history much higher than shopping in all surveys): a site where an actual battle took place, where the HQ of the Rising was relocated for two days, where 150 men and women fought the last days of a rising against the largest empire the world has seen and against the butchery of World War and where at last they surrendered. A street and lane-ways where civilians and Volunteers were shot down and where no less than five of the seven signatories of the Proclamation spent their last days of freedom.
Conserving and regenerating the Moore Street Quarter could also contribute to the regeneration of the north city centre as a whole, especially at night. Shopping centres might look busy in the day but at night they are wastelands.
I fully agree that the street should be leveled and regenerated.
Alas the State would have to pay compensation to the large number of illegal cigarette/tobacco vendors. Judging by the amount of sellers and the brisk trade they do, the compensation would run into the €millions.
The law is an ass:
It is hard to believe you can bury your head in the sand regarding the cigarette and tobacco sales that are costing the state and me the taxpayer billions over the years.
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