Northern Ireland - tasty dishes with kelp | What's cookin'

Rathlin Island is the only populated island in the north of the island. Daily life here is determined by fishing and agriculture. Recently, an old tradition has been to enjoy something like a renaissance seaweed. Returns to the menu in spring. A large school of mackerel passes around the island and offers a

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alternative to the shrimp, crab and lobster that are caught year-round. Phenomenal, all these plants like an edible garden. Look at the color change. I'm NOT beautiful. Kate burns her son. The cinematic lack is carpenter and the family cooks the album has a lot of you voted the option go and try to catch a fish, yes, Phil likes to reinterpret traditional Irish recipes and experiment with Japanese

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in his own style.

Rathlin is located in the northwest, 8 kilometers from the coast of the

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island. Kate and Benji McDowell, her oldest son, go on a hike. boat to harvest your homegrown aquatic vegetables, today we have a beautiful day, but I want to say that this is unusual where there are no such kind as this, you know, seaweed belongs to the algae family and has grown throughout large ropes under the surface of the sea. It will be harvested after 5 to 6 weeks. Locals used to collect the sea plant along the coast and use its bleaching flax for the textile industry.

Growing seaweed in the sea for use in

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g is most common in Japan. This is the algae here that we. makes the noodles and it is so clean you can see it has no blemishes, its blemish is frayed and grows in sheets on the rope and this particular count grows very well in Rathlin because it likes cold waters and harsh conditions. Bengie MacPhail is a trained fisherwoman, so even different than

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most fishermen would do, they do it well, it's about diversification, you know, so we're trying it out to see how it's going to work, you know well, that It seems to be moving slowly but surely, you know, I would say like the seaweed is being cut into strips in the harbor where Phillip has set up an outdoor kitchen.

He prepares the different fillings for the wraps with pepper, avocado and crab meat salad and seaweed noodles with sweet and sour pomegranate seeds added if he doesn't like seafood as a main dish. It's easy to start because it's not overwhelming, it's just a little salt and that meringue filling adds some mung beans and fresh crab meat that his brother Benji brought over this morning. Okay, we'll mix some up with some chili and some Chinese food here, Philip. He is a trained chef, but in the end he opted for carpentry, nowadays he only invites his friends and family to his culinary experiments.

Lunch used to be a miserable sandwich, but now Phillip has discovered sea vegetables for himself. Well I travelled, I once lived in Scotland for a while and most people do and the younger ones leave until they find some who are lucky enough to find work here but I've been home for quite a few years and I like it Being here, I think there are a lot of opportunities and in kimchi yes, yes, you get to these things that people couldn't do on the mainland. I do not like here. I'll stay here for the wife. Phil uses wheat flatbread for his rats.

Cool help. Yes. Through these, we go to this. Yes Yes. In fact, let me leave you with the bite, well we have about eight boxes from the beginning just to keep going through even the seaweed while it is so good, yes, in the summer, many fishermen and also some tourists come to the islands and enjoy of its natural splendor. but most visitors have to leave before dark, there aren't many sleeping options if Rathlin Island has 120 inhabitants, most of whom live near the port. Kate and her lab assistant Sarah are collecting spores for a new algae aquaculture that will grow on the ropes far out in the sea.

They are collecting spores on the algae plant that move similar to living cells. Yes, I'm here. Excellent look. In here those natural Lily is called speranza and they will release spores the spores are like the seed and in the seaweed nursery laboratory we get this plant to release its spores in a jar and they will all be swimming and then we will pour them into our tank and with the little Marla babies of the world, you have to sing to them and

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. he's actually singing today how nice - yes, of course, nice, yes, harvesting them is just the first step in the laboratory.

The dark areas containing the seeds are dried and stored in the refrigerator overnight. When plants are immersed in seawater, the spores are released all at once. a little trick to convince the plant to release spores is my precision work the next bits are even more precise actually this is i am still allowed to do this i am not allowed to do the next stage neither kate nor sara are lab technicians trains, she studies horticulture and over time has taught herself how to grow seaweed and many baby plants. I moved to the island because of this. I didn't move and then decide to work here.

I moved here to learn about the series and how they propagate and then Kate gave me a job I was on a rope long enough the spores are placed in a tank full of sea water when they are returned to the sea the little green dots grow into large sheets of seaweed along the ropes apart from the harbor area the island is sparsely populated hidden there are some active farms Phillip the Porter farm in the middle of the island several years ago has been empty for a long time and is in need of renovation, but first he wants to build a small summer cabin for his mother Kate in his garden, the carpenter has specific ideas about how he wants to build it well, it is mainly made with 50% recycled material, they are embers that he had collected from other jobs and things and from the roof of the savanna. the siding is your extra pieces of large commercial buildings as far as the structure goes, it's just me as a Belden so I don't doodle, but it's simple, there's just one bedroom and one bathroom, a bunch of boats.

The builders are helping him, they need his help to put old rowboats back together. I know something, it all comes true, so when you get a little bit of help sauce from Phillip, we have Phillip, we really believe in many hands making light work, so we're. I just lent a hand with a lot of heavy lifting, cleaning and manual labor, and it helps the kids settle into the cabin faster. Kate lives in Belfast for half a year, but she spends her summer months here on the island. My mother, you know? Their mother tries to pressure them to do things and yeah, I think my mom, you know, she helps half of them do things that they wouldn't otherwise, probably wouldn't do, but they pressure me saying I want there to be a cabin. built, so I'll try it.

Holloway may never have happened. Philip himself lives in a caravan because he can't move to the farm, but he invited the whole family over for dinner. He gets the ingredients from his garden. I was

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g tonight. Today I'm having something traditional, it's an Irish shoe, so it's not too complicated, the stew has to cook for several hours, so Kate is preparing some pizza dough to serve beforehand. Phil got fresh lamb from his neighbor. Beef is also for populists who chew meat before. you brown it, you cover it with a lot of flour, a lot of flowers, well, it helps the meat cook better, plus, when you add water, it helps thicken it at the end, after the time you know the flour is cooked, it cooks until The spesor.

I'm taking this boss Philip braising the meat with onions, peppers and herbs to add a little spice, okay we'll put this on the fire here, it wasn't long ago that all the locals were cooking outside not because they enjoyed it but because they had to people did not have modern kitchens until the seventies deities most people cook right in front of an open fire they hid iron pots behind something to have an iron palm like this you know another one nostalgia for fire requires above all the stew patience all the ingredients the vegetables the potatoes as well as the stewed meat are put together in the pot with a little water the stew is cooked for at least two hours Peggy's took her cattle to the bottom it's hard to beat a good that I couldn't feed afterwards of a a long day of work for us, okay, how long day of work would you know what that is, eh, geez?

I wouldn't know what they were. Kate serves the first guests. One of her sons has brought home baked bread and freshly smoked mackerel. What is now a garden party for friends was once Kate's day job, which is why more people use gas here. We only had electricity in 1991, for the first time we were allowed to have irons, to use gas between you have to be very diligent, as if it were a constant, its constant is. And it's her thing, I think too, so they were difficult times for people, it's one of those things, it's like she wanted to go back to that, I'm not sure, but at that time, young, good energy, you know, Let's melt the Chi. who really were quite self-sufficient without it being the good life Natalie was doing it for sexy reasons Kate's other son, Fergus, is helping with the pizza, he lives on the island with his wife and son, as it is customary among the islanders that the pizza topping is fresh crab meat.

The island must have a magnetic attraction. Kate's four children have worked abroad, some even in the United States, but they have all ultimately returned due to their unique geographic location. The island has an eventful history, from the Romans and Vikings to the English. It has been continually conquered but today it is a little more peaceful It is famous for its puffin colonies in the north The strong currents of the Irish Sea offer the birds perfect conditions for fishing Holidays here in the laboratory Kate and Sarah cut the harvested seaweed only seaweed grows in cold water and is also used as fertilizer put my feet back on the ground growl cut me if you can I feel depressed couldn't you please help me help me what are you doing this for a few hours are you becoming stupid?

I worked in the US for three years with a fishing organization and we worked with a company that were the first people in the US to grow seaweed for food and we basically copied them. Philips carpentry skills are in demand, this type of boat has been built in Europe since the Bronze Age, its owners rebuilt it three years ago and the oars need to be renewed. Not our wars here, obviously you don't want him too close to you because he was too close, the chickens, yes, they knock over the seat. You know sometimes you fall backwards under the boot Phillip was born on the island and has been repairing boats for most of his life.

He has all the tools and knows all the tricks well, it's just a matter of making sure the oars are balanced on the gunwale and we have that it's not too difficult to fish and also that they're not trying to keep as many of them as possible inside the boat , but without them being too close that they hold hands and cause problems. stow the boot so it's just a matter of finger tightening it for each pair of horses because it's different as you go up the boot because the boots have different widths as you go up it gets narrower or wider.

Hello, a big piece of fresh lemon. What are you going to do with that? So M will make a nice dashi soup with this. Okay, I'll go ahead and chop the onions and then don't you go first. Yes, it's going to be great. I prepared this. Alright. Sarah and Kate are making a Japanese Irish Lunch, seaweed fusion food, okay, yeah, keep going, I'm really hungry, okay, so that's going in there, you'll see the color change, oh yeah, gorgeous , well, the Japanese call it dashi and the type of broth used to bring out that umami flavor which is that extra flavor that we don't really have here in the West while we have but we don't talk about it much we talk about sweet and salty but they also have this umami se considers umami one of the five basic flavors and means hearty and spicy in Japanese Algy falls under this definition just like some meats ginger and other spices are added to the dish for the soup broth you can add whatever you want vegetables chicken and tofu they're classics sarah has a He has a trick up his sleeve, so I'm going to put some of this beet juice in a nice rich color, beautiful green and red, what do you get from that?

Probably yes, beet juice not only gives the soup a splendid color, but also adds a touch of bitterness. a bit reluctant, yes, those who have not eaten their fill can fry the finely chopped seaweed with the rest of the meat instead of salt. Soy sauce needs to be added, you need tongs for that, yes, so I'm going to pull out this snippet that can be used for something else life on the island takes place mainly in the port this is where Sarah and Kate have chosen to spend Their lunch break today they are cooking for their colleagues Cooking with seaweed is not part of traditional Irish cuisine, but on the island it is slowly becoming increasingly known that seaweed is used for more than just whitening clothes.

Okay, ready, when they are boys, theThe boat is not ready yet, but the team is eager to try it out. She already passed her first test. Float, should be nice. Such a nice day. Yes, come on, yes, you.