Newtownabbey
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel are in Newtownabbey celebrating the 300th episode of The Kitchen Cabinet. Joining Jay are chefs, cooks and food writers Melissa Thompson, Paula McIntyre, Rachel McCormack, and Jordan Bourke. Together, they explore the much-loved Northern Irish sweet treat, fifteens, and share the best ways to revolutionise a beef stew. They also debate the polemic culinary question - should stuffing be cooked inside or outside of the bird? Later on, Jay chats to Peter Hannan, the man behind the famous sugar pit bacon about how he makes his bacon taste so good. We also hear from local baker, Shannon Holmes from Nanny Plums bakery, about the recipe, flavour and story behind the no-bake treat, the 'fifteen'. Producer: Daniel Cocker Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock Executive Producer: Ollie Wilson A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:45.2 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet. |
| 0:48.6 | This week, we're celebrating our 300th episode. |
| 0:57.3 | You're too kind and so spontaneous. |
| 1:02.4 | The first kitchen cabinet aired on the 7th of February 2012 from the village of Sipton in Suffolk, |
| 1:04.5 | where we discussed horseradish, game and smoked food. |
| 1:07.2 | 299 episodes later, and today we're in Newton Abbey, |
| 1:10.6 | north of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland to further our adventures in food. |
| 1:15.6 | Joining me to hail Newton Abbey's culinary offerings are chefs and food writers Paula McIntyre, Jordan Burke, Rachel McCormack and Melissa Thompson. |
| 1:22.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, you're always ready to celebrate kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:39.6 | 300 episodes is a lot, and in that time, we've answered roughly 2,000 food-related queries. |
| 1:43.2 | Panel, you're all capable of answering myriad questions on all types of dishes. |
| 1:44.6 | But what I want to know is, what dish have you made more than 300 times in other words what dish could you probably rattle off |
| 1:50.1 | blindfolded paula mcinty when i was 13 i first made paulana and it was just layers of spuds and butter |
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