Weekend Brunch

Our team have put together the most amazing weekend brunch menu guaranteed to ease you into a lazy weekend. Feast your eyes on this!

Saturday and Sunday brunch menu

Ard Bia granola, seasonal fruit compote, natural yoghurt

Stuffed French toast, poached pear and soft cheese, cinnamon Orchard syrup

Buttermilk pancakes with orange, lemon and poppy seed, whipped mascarpone, runny honey

Poached Market eggs, herby hollandaise, baked ham and wilted spinach on potato cake

Full fry, Colleran’s smoked streaky bacon, oaty black pudding, Sausages, roast tomato, Poached eggs, spiced tomato relish, toast.

Poached Market eggs, roast mushroom, grilled halloumi, herby hollandaise on potato cake

Hippy Fry, poached eggs, roast mushroom, spinach, roast tomatoes, potato cake spiced relish

Sides

Hollandaise
Baked ham
Brown, white toast
Spinach
Potato cake
Sausage
Roast mushroom
Haloumi

 

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Trailblaze at Body & Soul

Wonderlust stage at Body & Soul
Wonderlust is brought to you by pop up productions

A stage of curiosities at Body & Soul, Wonderlust is dedicated to the exchange of wonder and ideas. Expect inspiration, music, talks, discussions, live performance, and other eclectic experiences.. Happenings in the mix include Sonic Revelations, Trailblaze, Come Rhyme with me, Philosophical Musings, Illuminati Salons, Scientific Discovery, Cool Collectives , Chats and Lols, Cups of Tea , Fun and Games, Bingo, Ballroom Dance offs, Bedtime Stories, A bespoke Choir Service and Things That Make You Go Hmmmm. For full line up details see below.
bodyandsoul.ie/wonderlust

TRAILBLAZE
The Trailblazery will host a two day extravaganza showcasing and promoting creative and socially engaged ideas, people and possibilities from Ireland’s most exciting cultural provocateurs. Experience a platform where pioneers share their personal moments of risk and inspiration. DIY activists, artists, musicians, designers, social architects, entrepreneurs, and educators of all ages and persuasions – blazing trails in their own spectacular or intimate way.
Speakers include Darragh Doyle ( Social Media Storyteller ), Grace Dyas ( TheatreClub), Joan Mulvihill (Irish Internet
Association), Sheila Gallagher (Green Sod ) Rosie O’Reilly (Re-dress Fashion Initiative), Colm Keegan (poet), Ruth
Meehan (Film Director & Writer) and Susan Quirke (Social Activist), Davie Phillips (Cultivate) Mari Kennedy ( the
ireland : iceland project ) Ruairí McKiernan (Social Architect)
Themes : Sat – Things that make you go Hmmmm? & Sun -Between The Click of the Light and the Start of the Dream

MUSIC
Ambient sets at sundown from some of Ireland’s sonic wunderkinds. From the sacred to the secular, with spiritual laments and feisty folk songs a plenty, expect magic and moonlighting from Patrick Kelleher, Daitihí Ó Drónaí, Traz, Rhob Cunningham, Elaine Mai, Hidden Highways, Twin Headed Wolf, Lisa O’Neill and more.

TEA & SYMPATHY
Tea for two and two for tea. Bite-size conversations with harmonious pairings of Ireland’s movers and shapers. This series will explore passion, ideas and philosophies on work, play and life. Speakers include Michelle Darmody (Cake Cafe), Aoibheann McNamara (Ard Bia at Nimmos), Grace Dyas (THEATREclub), Philip McMahon (This is Pop Baby), Michael
McDermott (Le Cool Dublin), Una Mullally (journalist and broadcaster), Shane Byrne (THEATREclub) and Dylan
Haskins ( DIY Activist ) & Neil Watkins ( Actor, Writer, Year of Magical Wanking )

DISCUSSION : IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
We are marking the Summer Solstice 2012 with a discussion on the evolutionary edge we find ourselves at in Ireland, and in the world today. What does it mean to be alive at this point in time, at the end of the world as we know it? Exploring ideas around social activism, culture, politics, science, spirituality and the digital realm, the conversation will be chaired by Mari Kennedy of the ireland : iceland project and features John O’ Donoghue (former broadcaster and youthful octogenarian), Dolores Whelan (shaman and scientist), Ruairi McKiernan (social activist), Peter O’ Brien (cultural creative/Upstarter) and Darragh Doyle (social media storyteller)

COME RHYME WITH ME
Verbal highs and down-low oral riffs, Come Rhyme With Me brings you a Thesaurus Rex of slammed-down words.
Una and Ragin and their merry word-bandits of Temper-Mental MissElayneous, Raven and guests, will get your tongues
wagging. Oh come all ye phonetic freaks and lingual lovers and articulate your tittle-tattle. We will lust up your language, retort, retract, respond and rap your rants around this watercooler we call Body&Soul.

BINGO & RAFFLES
Dancing Queen, seventeen! Buckle my shoe, twenty-two! Brush up on your bingo lingo and join us for a bit of old-fashioned fun and frolics with a surprise comedy host with the most. Hosted by the one and only Neil Watkins (Heidi Konnt and Year of Magical Wanking) with the help of his lovely assistant the delectable Brian Quinn ( BQ )

PARLOUR GAMES
Expect extreme welly throwing, sackless races and games of physical dexterity with matchboxes and blindfolds. During the Victorian era in Great Britain and in the United States, gentlemen and ladies amused themselves with Parlour Games at small parties. Events are competitive, but cumulative scores are not usually kept. The phrase “parlour game” is used in political dialogue to accuse opponents of using nebulous or confusing language when describing a particular position on an issue. Games mistresses are Lara Campbell and Victoria McCormack. Tea and Marietta biscuits rewards for best teams.

BALLROOM DANCE–OFF
A little light relief for the feet with the sensational David McDermott as dance instructor. Don your best tea dresses and pin stripe suits and learn to dance the Foxtrot with a step out of rhythm and a step back in time.

CHOIR SERVICE
We’re exercising our vocal chords and asking you to come join us. If you fancy your moment of glory on a stage at Body and Soul festival come to our choir practise and worship with your lungs.

All about the Book in the Sunday Business Post

SUNDAY BUSINESS POST Ardbia

ARD BIA BROWN SODA BREAD

INGREDIENTS

125g strong white flour
125g brown flour
50g sunflower seeds, plus extra for topping
50g sesame seeds, plus extra for topping
50g pumpkin seeds, plus extra for topping
50g pinhead oatmeal
1 tablespoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
20g olive oil
300ml buttermilk

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Grease a 900g loaf tin.

In a large mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients, mixing well. Add the oil and half the buttermilk, stir well to mix and add the rest of the buttermilk bit by bit. You’re looking for a moist consistency but don’t want it to be too wet or sticky.

Transfer the mixture to the greased loaf tin. Score the surface with a sharp knife. (Because we include a little white flour in our recipe, the bread will rise more than traditional soda bread. It needs to be scored to rise evenly.)

Scatter the top with extra seeds and bake for about 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. Allow to cool a little before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Sha Wellness in Galway Now

Wild garlic, nettle and barley soup

[Serves 4–6]

This uplifting soup demands a meander in your local parklands
or wooded area, where you’ll find the slender garlic spears offering
up its persistent scent to the breeze. The season can run from late
spring to early summer, and wild garlic tends to be rampant wherever
it grows. The white flower is easily recognised, though some
aficionados prefer the milder flavour pre-blossom. Always forage
sustainably.

INGREDIENTS
3–4 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
250g wild garlic, washed
250g young nettles, washed (be sure to wear gloves!)
250g pearl barley, washed
2 large floury potatoes, peeled and diced
1 litre vegetable stock
Salt and pepper

INSTRUCTIONS
Heat the olive oil in a large heavy-based pot over a medium heat. Add
the onion, reduce the heat and gently sweat to draw out the moisture
and sweetness.

Once the onion has turned opaque, you can add all the other
ingredients and simmer until barley is soft and potatoes are cooked,
about 15–20 minutes.

Allow to cool a little before blending with a stick blender and season
well to taste. If you prefer, you could leave this as a chunky soup,
or just blitz it a little to thicken the broth but to hold some of the
texture.

If you picked the wild garlic while in blossom, their pretty white
flower would make an attractive garnish scattered over the top.

HOME-TRUTHS…
Always use gloves when picking nettles, and choose the young tender
tips. It’s worth picking slightly away from pathways or roadsides, and
avoiding the lower leaves which may have caught the scented spray of a
passing dog or cat!

Ruby Wallis

 Photographs at Ard Bia

Art is fashionable, fashions in art come and go, the fashion world and the art world are clearly entwined at the moment, but it is only occasionally that fashion becomes the subject of art. In these photographs by Ruby Wallis the two worlds are playing happily together. Arising out of a publicity shoot for Triona Lillis’s “Props and Vintage “ specialist movie properties company, the pictures feature the exceedingly glamorous staff of Ard Bia and the photogenic location of Nimmo’s pier and the resaurant.

Ever since Cindy Sherman dressed herself up as a’B’ movie actor deliberatetly constructed photographs have raised interesting questions about the interpretation of pictorial identity. Here fictional scenes suggest  moments from movies not yet made: the Italian artist Marinetti about to embark on the crazy car chase that ended up in a ditch and from which the Futurist manifesto emerged in 1909, scenes deleted from Antonioni’s 1966 film ‘Blow Up’ where the photographer is the protagonist for the sexual revolution, a Tango dancer about to meet her lover somewhere in 1950’s Argentina before the Junta.

Fictions tell stories but these beautiful photographs also reveal their true subject, a group of contemporary people at ease with each other and at play in the world.

What else are we here for?

CJW
Déardaoin 22 Nollaig 2011

Ruby Wallis is a practice-based PhD researcher with National College of Art & Design, Dublin (NCAD) and GradCAM. She has completed a M.A. in Documentary Photography at The University of Newport, Wales, holds a Degree in Painting at GMIT and has been exhibiting internationally since 2003.