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Use Up Your Easter Bank Holiday Leftovers With A Crustless Quiche.

Ingredients:

5 large free range eggs.
120 ml milk.
50g grated cheddar cheese.
Salt and pepper to season.

Once you’ve assembled these ingredients, it’s time to add a combination of about 200-250g of any of the following, depending on your taste or what you have loitering in your fridge:-

Grilled or fried rashers
Cooked ham.
Sautéed onion, mushrooms or peppers.
Tomato.
Cooked Spinach.
Cooked broccoli.
Cooked potato.
Spring onion.
Other cooked vegetables.
Herbs.

Method:

Preheat your oven to 180C/160C fan/gas mark 4.
Chop and prepare any ingredients that need to be cooked beforehand e.g. onions, bacon, mushrooms, peppers etc.
Grease or line a suitable oven proof dish with baking parchment.
Whisk the eggs and milk together.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Pour the mixture into the dish.
Sprinkle cheese.
Scatter your other ingredients over the surface.
Cook in the oven for 30–35 minutes or until contents are set, golden on top and cooked throughout.
Then enjoy hot or cold with a nice bread and some salad.

With ‘Bread & Salad’ same meal can easily satisfy up to 4 healthy appetites.

Five Fun Easter Games For Family Members.

For an extra bit of family fun this Easter Sunday, why not play some of these great Easter games. Each one requires nothing more than a few materials that can easily be found around the house. What’s more, each game can be played indoors or outdoors and can be played by kids of all ages.

Easter Egg Hunt.

Easter egg hunts on Easter Sunday have grown increasingly popular in recent years. In the most basic version of an Easter Egg Hunt, chocolate or toy Easter eggs are hid indoors or around the garden. Participants search for eggs, collecting as many as they can find and placing them in their Easter basket or bag. You can add a competitive element by having a time limit and declaring the winner as the person who found the most eggs. For even more ideas for an Easter Egg hunt click HERE.

Draw the Bunny.

Anyone familiar with the classic “Beetle Drive” game, will understand how to play “Draw the Bunny”. All you need is paper, pencils and a dice. For a full set of instructions visit the excellent games resource “Family Games Treasure House” by clicking HERE.

Egg and Spoon Race.

There’s nothing as fun as an egg and spoon race and it’s no wonder the game has been around for generations. Get out your spoons and eggs. Put an Easter spin on things by substituting hard boiled eggs for chocolate ones.

Pin the Tail on the Bunny.

This game puts an Easter spin on the traditional “Spin the Tail on the Donkey”. The game is simple. One player is on and blindfolded. In their hand they have a cotton tail. On the wall there is a picture of a bunny. They are spun around three times and have to try and place the cotton tail on the bunny. For the bunny, you can draw one or cut one out from a picture. For the cotton tail simply use a piece of cotton wool with sticky tape attached.

Roll the Egg.

Another race game, this will have everyone in stitches. Using chocolate or hard boiled eggs, participants have to roll their eggs with their nose from the agreed start to the finish line. Lots of silly fun to be had with this game.

We wish all our readers a very Happy Easter.

Easy & Delicious Filled Easter Egg Desserts.

It’s the ‘No Bake Easter Dessert’ that has become quite the trend in recent years and you can make it as simple or as complicated as you like. Known as a ‘loaded’ or filled Easter Egg, it’s full of calories, but a well-deserved treat at the end of a particularly tough Lenten period.

Ingredients:
The basic ingredient needed for this dessert is half a chocolate Easter egg. After that, select additional ingredients from the suggested fillings listed below.

Method:
To start, you could fix your half Easter egg so that it doesn’t wobble. To do this, simply heat the base of your chocolate egg half, using a bowl over a saucepan of hot water, checking continuously until the chocolate starts to soften. Then, transfer the egg half to a dessert plate and fix it in place until the chocolate hardens again. However, if you don’t mind a wobbly half Easter egg , you can skip this step altogether.

Next, load the half Easter egg with your favourite sweet and dessert fillings. Here are some suggestions we found online, as well as some of our own suggestions. No matter what filling you choose, your Easter egg is sure to taste delicious.

Suggestions for Quick and Easy Fillings:

Your favourite ice-cream topped with chocolate sauce and hundreds and thousands.
A mixture of your favourite sweets.
A Fruit Salad with cream.
A Banana Split (View recipe HERE).
A Knickerbocker Glory (View recipe HERE).
Chocolate Rice Krispies topped with your favourite sweets.
Rice Krispie Marshmallow Treats topped with your favourite sweets (View recipe HERE).

Suggestions for More Ambitious Fillings:

Cheesecake: View recipe hereunder.

Banoffee Pie: View recipe hereunder.

Eton Mess (View recipe HERE).
Biscuit Cake (View recipe HERE).

For the ‘bigger’ children this Easter, a chocolate egg filled with plain, soft scoop icecream and a dash or two of Bailey’s Irish Cream might be just the ticket, when the kids are safely tucked into bed.

Clear Spells & Sunshine This Easter Weekend.

It looks like we’ll be enjoying some nice weather over the Easter weekend. If you are out and about please be sure to “Be Safe, Be Seen” by wearing High Visibility clothing, whether it’s daylight or night.

Good Friday.

Good Friday is set to be a bright and dry day with sunny spells and moderate breezes from the northeast. Southeast Munster is expected to get the warmest weather with highs of between 13 to 16 degrees Celsius across the province.

Easter Saturday.

Sunny spells and mild weather will continue into Easter Saturday with temperatures expected to hit highs of between 10 to 13 degrees Celsius.

Easter Sunday.

It looks like the rain will return after lunch on Easter Sunday with temperatures dropping to as low as 8 degrees Celsius in places.

Easter Monday.
Easter Monday will be cooler still, with northwesterly winds accompanying lower temperatures of between 3 to 7 degrees Celsius.

Five Great Irish Giggles & Pranks On April Fool’s Day.

Today is April Fool’s Day.

April Fool’s Day has been a tradition across different countries and cultures for centuries. Although it’s exact origin is debated, one most likely theory goes back as far as 1582.

In that year, the French switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. Under the Julian Calendar the new year began with the Spring equinox around April 1st. Under the Gregorian Calendar the new year began on January 1st. People who were unaware of the change or refused to follow the Gregorian calendar were deemed “April Fools” and subject to much ridicule.

Centuries later, on this particular April Fool’s Day, we could all do with an extra laugh. With this in mind, we thought we would share some funny pranks and giggles courtesy of Irish TV and YouTube.

Please be advised that some of the hilarious sketches hereunder contain crude language.

Brendan Grace and “The Wedding”.

The late, great Brendan Grace was one of Ireland’s best comedians. His hilarious sketch “The Wedding” will have you in stitches and it was a firm favourite of the world famous singer Frank Sinatra. In 1989, Sinatra performed in Dublin and at the after show party, Grace supplied the entertainment. Sinatra was so impressed he convinced Grace to travel to the USA. See hereunder.

Pat Shortt and “Lost in Limerick”.

No list of Irish giggles would be complete without a contribution from our very own Thurles native Pat Shortt. It’s well worth subscribing to his YouTube channel for a guaranteed regular laugh. Shortt’s latest sketches explore the lighter side of the Covid- 19 pandemic, chief among them is “Lost in Limerick”. See hereunder,

Cork’s 96FM Prank Call Series, “The Car Wash”.

Many unsuspecting members of the public here in Munster have been victims of a prank call from Cork’s 96FM over the years. This is among their most hilarious prank calls and involves a Car Wash owner and a customer who rings claiming that his car wash got his engine wet. This call takes an even more ridiculous turn when the “customer” goes to take a look at his petrol tank. It really is hilarious and it’s easy to see why it has 100K views on YouTube (Listen HERE).

RTÉ2’s The Fear and “That’s Not My Son”.

In this very funny prank from the hidden camera show “The Fear” on RTÉ2, an unsuspecting couple try their best to negotiate with the Gardaí who want to drop off their son to finish off the final three months of his prison sentence, under their roof as part of a new house arrest scheme. The problem is that the prisoner is not the couple’s son but he claims otherwise. Click HERE to view this hilarious prank.

Funny Fails on RTÉ Television.

Some of the biggest giggles are often unintended ones and RTÉ has delivered its fair share over the years. Click HERE to view a compilation of their most infamous and funniest fails.