Paul Rankin brings taste of celebrity to Cushendun
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Paul Rankin pictured with members of St Ciaran's staff.
Celebrity chef Paul Rankin was at St Ciaran's Primary School in Cushendun on Friday night to help the local community celebrate the pleasure of cooking and eating well.
Armed with just his portable 'wee stove', Paul prepared some of his own favourite healthy dishes, which are both time friendly and easy to replicate at home.
Everyone who attended the event received recipe cards so that they can reproduce the dishes themselves, and they also had the chance to sample local and more unusual foods at the accompanying 'pop-up food fair, with stalls from Love Olive, the NI Curry Company, The Garden Company, Ballycastle, Brigid Scally Miller, Scott & Sons Fruit & Veg and Kearney's Butchers displayed a wide variety of goods at the pop-up food fair.
Paul's demonstration event was one of the highlights of a unique, year-long programme being rolled out by the school and the local community working together to find an innovative solution to growing concern about levels of obesity and inactivity.
Speaking after the event, Glens Sinn Fein councillor Margaret Anne McKillop congratulated the school and said the evening was 'truly superb'
She said: "Paul showed how to cook some great healthy recipes in such a short time and it truly hit home to a lot of people how easy it is, while entertaining us with the odd joke.
“This programme, never mind securing such an excellent chef, is a credit to yourselves and how seriously you want to improve the young lives within your local community through healthy eating, keeping fit and eating your five a day.
“I along with everyone else in the room will be taking the advice that was given by the chef and trying out some of the recipes especially the chunky chicken chowder. Good luck for the rest of the programME and keep up the good work."
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