Wednesday, May 5, 2010


Ariel House Homemade Brown Bread

Ingredients:

½ lb Wholemeal flour
¾ lb Self raising flour
3 oz oats
¼ oz sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bread soda
1 tsp salt
1 egg
Milk - enough milk to make a wet dough

Method:

Mix all dry ingredients. Add egg and milk ( enough to make a wet dough. Bake in loaf tin lined with parchment for 35-40 mins at 350 degrees F. Turn out and tap – should sound hollow if cooked

Saturday, May 1, 2010

"A breakfast worth staying over for" The Irish Times 1st of May 2010


We are delighted to be tipped as " a breakfast worth staying over for " by journalist Sandra O'Connell in the Irish Times this morning. Below is what Sandra has to say about Ariel House. The entire article can be viewed online.

The phrase “guest house” has fallen out of fashion, usually in favour of “town house” or “boutique hotel”. Whatever appellation you use for Ariel House, on Lansdowne Road in Dublin, it’s a gem of a place for breakfast. For a start it’s all cooked to order, “so it’s not sitting on a buffet from 7am until someone eats it at 10am,” says general manager Deirdre McDonald. All jams, chutneys and relishes are home-made. The breads, including scones and banana bread, are freshly baked each morning. “We have been asked so many times for our brown-bread recipe that we put it on the website,” she says. Cereals and fruit salad come in Nicholas Mosse pottery, the organic yogurt is from a farm in Tipperary, the apricots and prunes are stewed daily and the French toast comes with creme fraiche. The porridge changes with the seasons. At the moment it comes with cream, honey and walnuts; in winter it is served with a warm berry compote or stewed apple and cinnamon. “We know from customer feedback that our guests come back to us specifically for our breakfasts,” says McDonald. “They get so much they can skip lunch.”

Ariel House, 50-54 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4, 01-6685512, a guesthouse in Ballsbridge, Dublin. From €69 per room, including breakfast for two. Family rooms sleeping five cost €109, including breakfast