Larder Waterfords newest foodie treasure

This week i stumbled upon one of Waterford's newest foodie ventures and i fell head over heels.
If you like condiments, jams and cakes and breads this is the place for you.

They pride themselves on using local produce and rightly so the owner comes from a very wide background in sales for multinational companies and the idea for the larder was a very straight forward one. like many of us often wonder would we rather work incredibly hard every day to pay the bills selling our soul or would we rather take a chance and do the thing that would bring us the most joy? Patrick very bravely chose to take the dive and open his very own dream store.

and to stock locally found producers and some specialty products such as high end flavored oils and even the finest italian products.To provide gluten free freshly baked goods by Josephine and her family who use spelt. you can literally taste the love in every bite of these wonderful breads. they even have spelt pizza bases which are a wonderful idea and the prices on these items are very fair. So far he has been selling out of bread almost daily. Which is wonderful for such a new venture. He also made a very smart choice in getting Niamh from savage kitchen to bring him wonderful treats. She makes the finest tea cake i have ever had and now she is after upping the game further with her yumyums/cronuts. I am officially hooked on those bad boys. and her savoury scone creations are so inventive and tasty. from pear and blue cheese to feta and olives,simply incredible. she has her own company and creates wonderful cakes for all occasions. Here is a link to her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SavageBaker?fref=ts

 the variety in the store is amazing they have joan and bobs juicy james and aurelias cordials. I could go on and on but i suggest you visit for yourself and see the variety in store.

The way the lay out of the store has been done is adorable and made all the more amazing by the fact that every single shelf is made from recycled materials. I have loved my time here. the only thing I could not get 100 percent behind was the coffee. It is bewleys and a fine blend of bewleys at that. definitely one of the better i have tasted but unfortunatly did not amaze me as much as the rest of the store. I will say i am incredibly fussy when it comes to coffee and my tastes are very much so my own. It was by no means a bad coffee just not my favorite in town

Please pop down to this store and support a brand new exciting venture.

sea bream with ginger, garlic,orange and scallions and sweet potato wedges

So i find working in a fish mongers people do not appreciate how easy fast and tasty fish can be.
Fish is without a doubt incredibly good for you also but lets forget about that side of things for a minute. lets purely see fish as a lazy mans dinner, lets try and convert you all into forgetting the healthy side for a moment and purely do it as an easy dinner. it took 20 minutes in all to make this dinner and that was including all the prep. it would take me more than 20 minutes to select what take away i wanted to eat on an average night and it would then take me time to ring them and wait for it. i would then spend about €10 on my one meal. Where as if you buy fish all the tasty ingredients and all it will be ready in 20 minutes tops, will taste amazing and will cost you a fraction of the price.

Seriously easy to make. chop up some veg stuff it in the fish put the fish in tinfoil in the oven and take it out plate it up and its done. I often have people come into the shop and ask me how do i cook the fish.and being honest not so long ago i would have had no idea myself of how easy fish is to cook.

I had a fear of fish, when i was a child i choked on a fish bone and swore i would never again eat fish. this seems to be a common issue many people have with fish. others just hate the smell or the idea of fish for whatever reason. Had i not by pure luck started to work in a fishmongers i doubt i would ever have gotten over my aversion to fish. But like all the jobs i have ever done i take it very seriously so every week i try a new fish, try a new flavor with it. and every single week i am surprised by how easy quick and tasty the fish is.So i have decided to try share simple ways to make fish to help anyone who like me was not always brave about fish.

If you have a fear of bones? a fishmonger will make sure all the bones have been removed for you. so you need not worry. there are also many fish that do not actually have any bones once filleted.


this week we tried sea bream. it was both our first time having it. my husband is not quiet as brave as me fish wise so i got his filleted. (he did not want his food looking at him, so head on was not an option) sea bream was on special offer in billy burkes €5 per fish so we spent €10 on fish. we then went to local veg grocer and purchased sweet potatoe,and orange, ginger,garlic and scallions all for under €2. so basically €12 for a meal for two fit for a king and queen.

i cut up the scallions put them in a bowl squeezed half an orange on top grated one garlic clove and half a ginger on top. cut the other half of the  orange into segments stuffed the fish with along with the scallion mix.  put the fillets in the same way as the whole fish but only put it in for 15 minutes instead of the full 20 for the full fish parceled up in aluminium foil

the sweet potatoes i put in earlier. all i did with that was wash it cut it into segments put seasalt paprika and oil on it and pop it in the oven shaking it every so often.

you really could not look for easier better value or cheaper.Please try it and let me know how you get on.

chop your spring onion

 cut up your orange

 add your garlic and ginger and orange juice

 stuff your fish

 do the same with fillets if you are not brave enough for a whole fish but add butter on top of the fillets and leave it in less time. so as to not overcook

 pick an exceptional fishmonger and insure quality and good prices :D