Donal starts this new series in Howth, his home town, where he cooks at the Dublin Bay Prawn Festival. The dishes are Howth Head Seafood Chowder, Wild Garlic Soda Bread, Surf and Turf Salad and a Raspberry Pie.
Despite the rain in Dungarvan Donal cooks up two delicious dishes, Chilli & Lemongrass Chicken and Beer Batter Fish with Mushy Minty Peas and Rosti Potato Cakes. In Donal's HomeCooked bakery he creates an epic Crazy Monkey Brownie Baked Alaska.
With the Limerick RiverFest in full swing Donal rolls into town to cook up two quick and easy HomeCooked dishes to convince the crowds to get back into their kitchens- On the menu: Griddled Beef and Mint Salad and Butterflied Rosemary & Garlic Chicken with Romesco Sauce. In Donal's HomeCooked bakery he bakes up chewy peanut butter cookies sandwich together with a salty and sweet peanut butter frosting.
Donal visits Ireland's most famous cookery school, Ballymaloe, for the inaugural LitFest a celebration of food literature featuring some of the worlds most well know voices in food. In between cooking Donal speaks at the New Voices In Food talk alongside Rachel Allen, Claire Ptak, Thomisina Myers, Stevie Parle and Mathew Fort. On the menu: Braised Chicken Thighs with baby gem, spring onions and peas & Sole Meurniére. Back at home in Donal's HomeCooked bakery, a mini profiterole mountain is made filled with homemade creme patissiere and drizzled with a warm and rich dark chocolate sauce.
This week Donal has packed his dancing shoes and is headed to the Portmagee Set Dancing festival in Kerry! In between some fairly impressive dance moves he cooks for the dancers- BBQ'd Jerk chicken is sure to put a spring in their step, a flavour bomb salad to get excited about and to sweeten the deal Donal serves up a summer berry pavlova in his home bakery.
Donal isn't too far from home in this weeks episode, traveling to Dublin's Historic Docklands to cook up 2 easy homecooking recipes Blue Cheese Beef Sliders and Pad Thai! Back in the HomeCooked bakery he whips a droolworthy salted caramel mud pie.
Donal visits Sheridans Cheesemongers fourth Irish food festival at their Virginia Road Station headquarters in Co Meath where he is one of the judges at the Brown Bread competition.
Donal Skehan visits Trim Castle, Co Meath, the largest Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland constructed over a 30-year period by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter. While there, he prepares seafood paella, bun cha, and a retro cake in honour of one of the country's most-loved biscuits.
Donal visits the Dublin Horse Show at the RDS, one of Ireland’s biggest annual and sporting events and prepares Margarita Chicken and Tomato Shellfish Soup.
The Hook Lighthouse at Hook Head in Co Wexford is the world’s oldest operational lighthouse – there’s been a lighthouse here for 800 years and it’s now a popular tourist attraction. Donal takes refuge from some appalling weather to cook for the windswept visitors as he prepares a delicious Chorizo Chicken Bean Stew and a Tomato Crab Pasta.
Donal visits one of Ireland’s most popular attractions, which opened in 1831. Feeding time at the zoo is always a popular event, and this week Donal sets out to feed some of the visitors with Caramelised Banana Pancakes, Mexican Fish Tacos, and a tasty Polenta Cake.
The magic of rail’s golden age has been brought to life at Kilmeaden, Co Waterford: a heritage narrow gauge railway follows 6km of the route of the abandoned Waterford – Dungarvan line. The track runs mostly along the picturesque banks of the River Suir between Kilmeaden and Waterford, offering panoramic views of the River Suir, rolling farmland and mountains. Donal cooks Toulouse Sausage & Puy Lentil Stew,Harissa Fish, and a delicious Salt Baked Salmon for the passengers waiting for the next train.
Donal visits Rovaniemi in Finland, the official home of Santa Claus to make some homemade edible gifts - fudge, Florentines, gingerbread - and gives them to Santa Claus to deliver, though finding Santa Claus is easier said than done.