Irish Food & Randalstown

News of the day, Soda bread is not made of bread dipped in soda.

Today we started off with a traditional fry up 'Ulster Fry', since we had such a huge conversation at it at the pub on our first night out it has to be done.Sausages, fried egg, bacon, pancakes, grilled tomato, potato bread, soda bread, veggie roll. It was quite a meal!! I ate it so quickly that I forgot to take a photo for my blog.

This one has black pudding in it and the one we had in Dublin had black and white pudding. Also mushrooms, beans can be added to this meal.

Irish potato bread is yummy, but I do love tattie scones from Scotland and Potato pancakes from Poland.

Gemma’s mum dropped us off in town were we grabbed a drink at the local pub meet up with Sinead. From there we hit up a charity shop and picked up from groceries, I was all up for getting to know the local cuisine. So they suggested that I try some Irish munchies.

Oh yes yesterday we had champ with our steak and Guinness pie.

Mash with spring onion, simple yet effective.

Dan and I got a quick tour of the viaduct and bridge in Randalstown from Gemma and Sinead. For dinner we picked up pasties since Gemma has been mentioning it since our arrival. I thought it was like pasties in England but it is not.They are battered deep fried mash potatoes with minced pork served with chips and vinegar, we picked it up from a take away for a whole supper it was only £4.80.

Time to catch the train to Belfast from Antrim so we can make our super early train to Dublin. The train from Belfast to Antrim cost us £11 one way and our tickets from Belfast to Dublin was £25 each for a return so it wasn't too bad. Cept for to make the best of our time we decided to catch the 6:50am. We walked to Sinead’s place from the train station had a very relaxing evening drinking wine, liquored coffee and watching Breaking Bad. Wish there was more we could have done to repay her for her wonderful hospitality.