Eat Only Irish for a Week: Pasta Bolognese and honey flapjacks

So have been doing the #eatonlyirishforaweek challenge. It has been a real eye opener regarding what is and isn't Irish and what say's its Irish and isn't. What you're left with is basically raw unprocessed veg and other produce. It's great for the evening dinners but breakfast and lunch is a bit more difficult.

Anyways for dinner tonight we had home-made pasta and bolognese tonight.

Pasta was actually pretty straight forward. Normal flour and a whole egg and an egg yolk. Blitz the flour and then add the egg, blitz some more till it looks like breadcrumbs. Then wrap it in cling-film and leave it in the fridge. I left it for 24 hours but 30 mins is enough I think.

Then you have to roll it out.

And cut it and leave it to hang for a few minutes. I used my trusty beer stirring spoon.

And then cook it. Takes just a few minutes.

The bolognese was pretty standard, shallots instead of onions (finding it hard to get onions) fry the mince, then add the tomatoes (peeled, actually surprisingly easy) and a bit of rocket and oregano (from our garden).

It was amazing!

The flap-jacks were honey, (no sugar cos Ireland does not make sugar, nada, zip, nothing) oats and butter. Melt the butter and honey together then add to the oats and cooks for about 20 minutes.