Bramley

Pork and apple are a classic combination. Roast pork and apple sauce is a match made in heaven.

Have you noticed that there appears to be great crop of apples this year?

Innovators, left, Alastair Bell of Irish Black Butter in Portrush and Patrick Campbell, commercial manager of Clandeboye Estate Yoghurt in Bangor

Food innovators combine to create a deliciously different yoghurt

I love leeks in Colcannon – it’s not traditional but they work so well. Add some chopped scallions to hot milk and then allow to infuse for an hour – a trick my granny taught me. Picture: Archive

Colcannon is a dish that beautifully combines potatoes and cabbage

New deal in the US with gourmet food store for Irish Black Butter’s Alastair Bell.

Alastair’s Bramley sauce from Portrush a gourmet hit in the ‘Big Apple’

A neighbour dropped off a bucket of Victoria plums the other day and after giving myself hives by eating too many I poached some to store in a kilner jar to add to oats, yoghurt or ice-cream

Now that its late summer we have an abundance of local fruit to be picked

Sausage and onion gravy in winter is the ultimate comfort food. Here the onion takes two forms. Picture: Dante Busquets

A good sausage doesn’t need much adornment, keep it nice and simple

Graham Moore (speaker at the NIFGA Spring Meeting) presented Dermot Morgan with the Plant Protection cup on behalf of sponsor Sprayrite Agri Ltd.

Top apple growers awarded

Fiona Chapman Founder of On the Hoof pictured at the Cooking with Fire Event

Armagh Food and Cider Weekend kicks off with celebration of local flavours

Roger Merryweather, with Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Lord Mayor Sarah Duffy and John Nicholson of Crannagael House. Picture: Philip Magowan

Historic Bramley apple planting marks return of Armagh Food and Cider Festival

Roger Merryweather, Lord Mayor, Councillor Sarah Duffy and John Nicholson. Picture by Philip Magowan

Historic Bramley Apple planting marks return of Armagh Food and Cider Festival

Straidbilly Primary School pupils, County Antrim pictured alongside William Irvine, UFU deputy president and BOIOFW chairman and Joe McDonald, Head of Corporate Affairs Asda NI. (Pic: UFU)

UFU ‘supporting local produce in NI’ schools’ competition deadline extended

Straidbilly Primary School pupils, County Antrim, pictured alongside Joe McDonald, Head of Corporate Affairs Asda NI and BOIOFW farm host, William Irvine, UFU deputy president and BOIOFW chairman. (Pic: UFU)

UFU ‘supporting local produce in NI’ schools’ competition

Royal Gala apples on a hedgerow system in the authors orchard. Pic: David Johnston

Fruit that doesn’t disappoint

Bramley apple market crashes

3,000 years of apple growing heritage celebrated in Richhill

British growers have handpicked an estimated 76 million Bramley apples this year

Brits and their love of Bramley apples
The British apple and pear season is now well underway, with the best of British apple varieties widely available in UK supermarkets.
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Speakers and UFU representatives at the recent Northern Ireland Fruit Growers Conference. Left to right: David Johnston fruit grower and NIFGA chairman, David Camp (Association of Labour Providers), David Brown (UFU deputy president), Kieran Lavelle (senior horticultural technologist, CAFRE), Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots, Wesley Aston (UFU chief executive) and Dr Sean Mac Ant Saoir, (AFBI)

NIFGA hosts successful apple conference

NIFGA Apple Conference planned

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Horticulture apple tree

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