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By Nutritionist and College of Naturopathic Medicine graduate, Jacqueline Ryan

Kinsale Good Food Circle want your help to find the best chowder chef in Ireland.

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Clarke's of Ballina have more than 60 years of experience using fish from Clew Bay and the Moy River. As we continue our look at local businesses in Co Mayo, we continue to see the fantastic produce available on our doorstep. Clarke's also offers a service to local anglers lucky enough to land their own memento of the river Moy, Clarke’s will smoke their catch. Yes, you can get oak smoked salmon here in the county. How fresh is that? I know that smoked salmon is a fantastic starter on its own, but I have a little twist to make a modern starter. This is Mayo smoked salmon with a pan fried scallion potato cake, with horseradish and leaves, that will be a tasty delight for four people.

Internationally acclaimed novelist Marsha Mehran has been found dead in an apartment in Lecanvey.

Since 1997, Da Tang Noodle House on Middle Street had served the people of Galway with thousands of steamy bowls of comforting noodles, dumplings, and legendary spicy salad. But Da Tang hung on the shoulders of an individual and when the time came for him to retire, Da Tang retired also. Their sister business, Chi Asian Take-away, a little takeaway in Westside, took over the space in the middle of November. Chi promises healthy convenient food choices using locally sourced fresh ingredients. Chef Andy Bandara uses the highest-quality local produce to create Asian dishes from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China, and Vietnam. Known for good food, great flavours, and a mean nasi goreng, how does this takeaway translate into a sit-down restaurant?

It’s all a bit chilly at the moment, and with the cold weather we tend to choose stodgy comfort foods, making it difficult to meet the recommended five-a-day of fruits and vegetables. Homemade soups are an ideal opportunity to add extra helpings of vegetables to your daily intake, and also to pack extra nutrients into your meals. They are a great way of filling you up without filling you out, and will help you keep your new year resolution to watch your waistline.

Bodkin Point, Galway's only buffet-style Chinese restaurant (as far as I know, but correct me if I'm wrong) is situated at Galway Shopping Centre, and it certainly serves up quite a feast. Choose your table, join the queue, and fill your plate from a selection of Asian dishes. Favourites such as spring rolls, sweet and sour chicken, and pot stickers sit alongside popular exotic eats including sushi and chicken satay.

Despite their best culinary efforts, staff from The Fatted Calf in Glasson were unable to compete with all the maritime cooks in the third annual All-Ireland chowder cook-off in Kinsale last week.

Westmeath will be represented at this year’s All-Ireland Chowder Cook-Off in Kinsale which takes place on Sunday April 21.