Cuisine

Here are a few club favourite recipes, please add your own!

Pizza in a Pan

An ideal dish for when everyone assumed the hostel would have an oven, but it doesn't. Actually surprisingly tasty.

Ingredients

1 Frozen pizza, ideally completely thawed due to a barely-working excuse of a fridge

Cooking Instructions

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Aodhán and Niall decided this recipe could be further optimised for not only Club Trips but for all adventures even when there is neither an oven or a hob. Instead you can use a Trangia Spirit Stove. For more information go to Pizza in a Trangia

Slow Cookers

Slow cookers are a great way to leave your food cooking while you're out hiking/climbing for the day. Ideally bring as many as possible to help ensure that the minimum of 10 slow cookers per Club Trip is met (this is enforced by Mountaineering Ireland). They have the added advantage of letting you know what your food would taste like overcooked, when you inevitably arrive back much later than you had planned. Leave it cooking in your room to add a pleasant smell and a thrilling risk of fire.

Slow Whiskey

Slow whiskey on the Wales 2025 Trip.

Perfect for after a long wet hike. It never gets (c)old.

Ingredients

• 1.7L Boiling Water (1 Kettle’s worth)
• 800mL Whiskey (approx)
• 3-4 Lemon/Orange Slices
• Cloves
• 5 heaped teaspoons of Sugar

Cooking Instructions

1. Turn on the slow cooker, setting to warm.

2. Boil a full kettle.

3. Slice the orange/lemon into slices and place a clove into each segment.

4. Add the water and whiskey to the slow cooker, mixing well.

5. Add the sugar while stirring, ensuring all is dissolved.

6. Add the slices and let the hot whiskey stew for at least 5 minutes before serving.

Recommendations

• Replace sugar with honey for a healthier alternative.
• Ideally cook stew in the slow cooker beforehand and don’t wash the pot for extra flavour.

Block of Cheese

The preferred purchase.

A nutritious and versatile hiking meal. Extremely quick preparation time. Should be carried at all times in case of emergencies.

Ingredients

• The most vintage cheddar cheese obtainable (this will enhance its energising properties).

• Slicing Apparatus

Cooking Instructions

1. Purchase cheese.

2. Open packaging.

3. Slice Cheese (we aren't animals)

4. Enjoy.

The cheese has the ability to resuscitate tired hikers and can be distributed during hikes to boost morale.

Can be served as "the vegetarian option"

Banana in a Wrap

Ingredients

• 1 Banana

• 1 Wrap

Cooking Instructions

Remove all packaging from banana. Place onto wrap. Wrap up. Eat.

Serving Suggestion

Serve with a side of bananas.

Wine Pairing

We suggest to serve this dish with a vintage banana juice.

The True Creamer

An example of the True Creamer at the 2024 Keane's Xmas Party.

While fools debate concepts such as "head", "shtick" and "domage", the wise mountaineer recognises only one qualifier for a superior pint of stout, the so called True Creamer.

Ingredients

• 1 Pint of Stout (preferably Guinness from a can)

• Carton of Milk

Cooking Instructions

Pour pint (or have it poured for you). Let it settle, the glass will probably be full so have a decent gulp. Unscrew the cap of the milk carton, and putting the rim of it up to the glass, slowly pour milk to your desired taste. The pint should turn a lovely pale brown colour. You have now achieved the True Creamer.

Note: more often than not someone other than the drinker of the pint prepares the True Creamer, often without the drinkers consent or prior knowledge - this is completely fine and they will be glad you did this.

Serving Suggestion

Serve cooled with the remaining milk in the carton as a chaser.

Wine Pairing

A second pint.

Soggy Chicken Roll

A popular lunch option for poor weather hiking.

Ingredients

• Your usual chicken roll order, or a breakfast roll if you want to switch it up.
• Water
• Cling Film

Cooking Instructions

Get your preferred chicken roll order from a deli on the way to the bus. Leave the roll in your bag and once you are hiking allow it to soak.

Once sufficiently damp, serve. It is best enjoyed in a storm shelter or after returning to the bus because it was too wet to stop for lunch. The wrapping does not need to be consumed but biting through the cling film can add a delightful twist to the texture, whilst also promoting the club's values of waste not want not.

Wine Pairing

Damp wine gums that have spilt out of their packet and become really sticky in your pocket or bag. Ideally with some dirt of unknown source stuck to them that you choose to ignore.