February 8th, 2010
Chinese New Year begins next Sunday (February 14th), and we at Silver Hill are getting ready to welcome the Year of the Tiger!
Dublin City Council launched the festivities last Friday with a Sino-Irish fashion exhibition (details of this and other New Year festivities here), and we are delighted to be involved with some of the initiatives too. This week I’ll be working with the chefs at the Chinese New Year banquet in Dublin zoo to prepare the duck menu in the authentic Chinese method. And today I’m off to do a tasting for the menu with the committee. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it!!!
James and I are also heading over to the New Year festivities in Manchester on Sunday to host a duck tasting session in Albert Square Market. It may be Valentine’s day but we’ll be with out first love anyway – duck! 
Our Silver Hill shop in Emyvale has been going really well too. It’s a stone’s throw from the farm and you can pick up all the Silver Hill goodies at factory prices, so pop in and say hi sometime!
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January 26th, 2010
Happy (belated) New Year to all!
I’m just back from a lovely holiday, where I spent the best part of three weeks in Australia, touring some of the nicest restaurants in Melbourne and Sydney (you’re never off duty when you work here!!).
I couldn’t help but be in search of other ducks to see how they compared to Silver Hill ducks! Obviously none of them came close to our unique taste and succulence but I did come across some interesting dishes nonetheless.
Speaking of dishes, on my return I received some very interesting and innovative ways our customers use our duck through the entrants we have so far received for our duck dish competition!! Keep them coming!!
On my way back from Australia I stopped in Beijing – the home of the Pekin/Beijing Duck – and ate in one of the worlds best known duck restaurants, ‘Quan Ju De’. Wow what an experience and I’ve a few tips up my sleeve from what I saw there!
Now that I’m back it’s all go here at Silver Hill Foods, between getting ready for the Chinese New Year next month and also looking ahead to 2010 and developing some new and exciting products as well as attending some tradeshows.
So here’s to 2010 and exciting times for Silver Hill Foods.
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January 11th, 2010
Calling all amateur chefs! Silver Hill Foods, Ireland’s premium duck producer is searching for the nation’s top duck recipe. It’s time to get those creative juices flowing and show us what you’re made of!
We have launched a nationwide competition in search of Ireland’s top duck recipe. Budding chefs around Ireland are invited to submit either a starter or main course recipe using any Silver Hill duck as the main ingredient. Be as creative as you like and give your tastebuds a treat!
The lucky winner will receive a range of top kitchen equipment worthy of any chef, along with a selection Silver Hill products…. worth a total of €750!
Interested? Post, email or fax recipes and your full contact details to Silver Hill Foods no later than the closing date of 28th March 2010. The winning recipe will be chosen by Stuart Steele, Managing Director of Silver Hill and me! I can’t wait to get tasting those creations, so get cooking!
Address: Silver Hill Foods, Emyvale, Co. Monaghan
Fax: 047-87655
Email: silverhill@eircom.net
The winner will be contacted directly in April.
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December 23rd, 2009
I love Christmas; snuggling up to the fire, a glass of wine in hand and great cheesy films on TV. What’s not to love? Of course, I usually spend my holidays in the kitchen – an occupational hazard!
I may be a teeny bit biased but there’s nothing I love more for my Christmas dinner than a lovely roast duck (check out a good recipe here
). It’s easy to prepare and good quality products can make it easy to feed the 5,000 with something that everyone will enjoy. Don’t even get me started on yummy duck fat roasters…!
Happy Christmas all…
See you next year!
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December 8th, 2009
Dished up by Gary on December 8th 2009
It’s been a long time in the planning, but today we opened the Silver Hill shop!
The buzz about the place was fantastic, and it’s great to see local people, media and even tourists coming in to sample our wares first hand. We decided not to limit ourselves to the Silver Hill Foods but will also have the Silver Hill Feathers products for sale.
I’ll post up pictures of the new store over the coming days.
Soon we’ll have the whole county eating (and sleeping) duck!
Tags: Monaghan, shop
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December 8th, 2009
Dished up by Gary on November 30th 2009
Welcome to the Silver Hill Food’s blog!
Through this blog, we will be giving you a flavour of happenings in the company and in the local area. We are a busy bunch here so we’ll have lots to talk about and hopefully keep you entertained along the way!
If there’s anything you want to ask us or have any comments, you can contact us on blog@silverhillfoods.com.
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