Ravioli with Brewer Alex Lawes

In this first episode of Series 2 of The 5 O’ Clock Apron Podcast, Claire cooks with the brewer Alex Lawes. Dublin is a city famed for its pint and Claire wanted to record a cookery conversation with someone synonymous with the city’s brewing industry. Alex Lawes is just that, brewer and joint owner of Whiplash Beer. Their instagram profile reads “@whiplashbeer - Ballyer brewery brewing banging beers.” Join Claire and Alex as they cook in his gorgeous, dinky cottage. They drink a Whiplash Basil and Lemon table beer and set about making the most delicious ravioli this side of Italy. Learn about brewing beer, Dublin’s fish and chip shops all being run by Italian families, freezing your leftover wine, sailing round Sicily and there’s big love from Alex and Claire for the Pasta Grannies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Chef and food writer Claire Thomson invites you to join her as she steps out of her kitchen to discover what's cooking in the home kitchens of Britain and beyond. Claire is renowned for her authentic take on home cooking and loved for her inspirational and no nonsense approach to food and cookery. In this podcast, Claire is on a mission to discover and cook other people's favourite, tried and tested home recipes.Travelling across the country, each episode drops you into the heart of a new kitchen. Cooking shoulder to shoulder with guests from every profession other than her own, aprons on, ingredients out and pans bubbling. Expect to hear much laughter as together they rummage through cutlery drawers, nose through spice racks and fling open fridge doors, chopping and chatting to get food on the table.Guests for Series 1 include an academic, Ellen Hughes baking her No Recipe Apple Cake, broadcaster Cerys Matthews making a Cawl, No - Dig Gardener Charles Dowding using his home grown beets for a Borscht, comedian Amy Mason whips up a Leek Pasta and the CEO of Childline Rebecca Wilcox cooks Carbonara. With more guests in the pipeline, tuck in for some tasty kitchen companionship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.