Menu ideas for visitors from OZ

Ballymackeonan

Don't forget the local specialities - like champ (with pork and apple sausages?) or colcannon. Local hams, bacon, potted herring? If the weather turns nasty again, broth with floury potato, or Irish stew. What about wheaten, soda or fruit bread - toasted soda for breakfast, anyone? A lot of my visitors end up taking back fruit bread especially!

helcat26

Hi I think it is nice that you are thinking so considerately, but half the pleasure of travelling is trying local food so do not change everything!


By all means asks what they like and will not eat, but do not bombard with too many questions or the poor people will be nervous as anything about food before arriving.


I think a good rule in general with guests is to serve the main dish, but let people help themselves to other side dishes- then if they have a small appetite they are not faced with a loaded plate.
Apart of course from your ulster fry, perhaps break the dish up-
for example if you normally have lasagne , garlic bread, chips, salad serve it so they can choose what components they eat and do not.


We had beautiful fresh fish and seafood in Australia, but it might be difficult to get the same quality here.


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suki1964

helcat26 wrote: »

We had beautiful fresh fish and seafood in Australia, but it might be difficult to get the same quality here.


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Extremely hard to get here

Belfast has a wonderful selection at St Georges market on Fridays, but up here we have Asda and Sainburys and tbh there's not much selection, nor would I call it very fresh

Only time I get good fish now is if someone gives me their catch, mackerel and trout, can no longer land salmon

Good job we produce some really good beef

Softstuff

Even in Australia, they joke about the Melbourne food snobs and hipsters. So some Aussies are fussy, the rest not so much. We're in Queensland, pub dining often comes with chips.

I guess thinking about it, not much gets fried.... But that isn't to say a good fry up isn't appreciated now and then. I'd echo what Ballymackeonan says, chances are they'd like to try the local specialities.

When I go back to England, I like a pork pie and a scotch egg. I look forward to fish and chips, roast dinners, Lancashire hotpot, black pudding. I like things I don't get here.