Nollaig na mBan

Nollaig na mBan – 6th January

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The Feast of the Epiphany on 6th January is celebrated all over Ireland as Nollaig na mBan which means Women’s Little Christmas. Traditionally this is the time for the women to get together and enjoy their own Christmas in peace and in recognition for all their work over Christmas time while the men hold the fort at home and handle the children and the chores.

It may be a bit old-fashioned but we’d also like to say thank you and offer a complimentary Irish artisan cheeseboard (value €35) with every dinner order over €100 (while stocks last).

The Sandycove Glasthule Christmas Treasure Hunt

The Sandycove Glasthule Christmas Treasure Hunt 17th December 2016

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We had record-breaking entries for this year’s Sandycove Glasthule Children’s Christmas Treasure Hunt. It was a fantastic family fun day with a wonderful festive atmosphere. Our winners and runners-up have now been chosen as follows:

For the two winners, a fabulous gift basket each full of goodies from the traders of Sandycove and Glasthule go to:
Dylan Leahy
Thea Paciello-Collery

Delicious treats from The Butler‘s Pantry for the runners up:
Leo Boland
Michael O’Sullivan
Oscar Rowe
Hannah Gilligan
Sophie MacCarthy
Sienna MacCarthy

All prizes are ready to be collected from our shop in Sandycove.

Wishing you every good wish of the Season and already looking forward to our next Treasure Hunt!

Tips for Entertaining at Home this Festive Season

3 Top Tips for Entertaining at Home this Festive Season

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Make entertaining at home this festive season easy and fun with some of our ideas for decorating your home, dressing your dinner table and ideas for canapés and drinks.

Top 3 Tips on Drinks and Canapés

  1. For the drivers – scoop out a passion fruit and mix with elderflower cordial (we love Richmount) and sparkling water and top off with ice, fresh mint and lime
  2. Soup served in a demi tasse coffee cup finished with either crème fraîche or toasted barley – a perfect canapé starter
  3. Wicklow Way Wines has a delicious Strawberry Wine which is delicious as an aperitif served on ice or as a dessert wine. Local, organic and a great talking piece!

Table Dressing

  • Napkins wrapped with simple red velvet ribbon and little bells are very cute and cost effective.
  • Christmas confetti is a simple addition to any table and much loved by children and grandchildren alike.
  • Make your own Christmas crackers and fill with your own edible delights or gifts. Two options here: start holding onto those finished toilet paper rolls or kitchen rolls or you can buy a cheap cracker, fill with little gifts and then finish in your own style.
  • If you are making your own Christmas crackers they can also double up as a name place setting.
  • Keep your floral displays low so they can remain on the table till at least main course is served.
  • Night lights in cute holders and lots of them can be very effective for a large number around the table. Not having to move the candelabra to chat to the person across the table

The Christmas Tree and Floral Decorations

  • Using the lower branches that you trim from your Christmas tree, spray them with gold paint if you want the warm Christmas look or silver paint if you want that ice palace look! They are great to use in Christmas wreaths and table arrangements also.
  • When making your Christmas wreath don’t forget you can add food to it – cloves popped into Satsuma/mandarin oranges and chilies are available in plant form from florists / garden centres and hardware stores.
  • A Christmas wreath can double up on the door as well as a centre-piece for the table.

 

Traditional Hallowe’en Barmbrack

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Hallowe’en derives from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain which celebrated the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter. The traditional bread served on the night was Barmbrack, meaning speckled cake.

Traditionally, the Barmbrack had hidden a ring, a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth and a small coin. Finding the ring meant you would marry that year while finding the pea was the opposite and meant you wouldn’t marry that year, the stick foretold an unhappy marriage or a year of disputes, the cloth heralded bad luck or poverty but the coin happily predicted good fortune or riches. Bit of a mixed bag – there must have been some apprehension when cutting the brack!

ALONE, Jedward & The Butler's Pantry

ALONE, Jedward & The Butler’s Pantry

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The Butler’s Pantry is proud to partner with ALONE, the charity that supports older people to age at home. In a first for Ireland, ALONE is the first Charity to roll out contactless collection boxes which allow people who do not carry cash to donate in lieu of the traditional method of putting coins into a collection bucket.

This ‘tap and give’ facility was launched at The Butler’s Pantry in Sandymount Green with Ireland’s most famous duo Jedward showing some willing customers how easy it is to ‘tap and give’ to support our older and more vulnerable citizens this Christmas of our Centenary Year.

The ‘tap and give’ boxes will be in all our ten shops from the end of November until January 2017 and we would urge all our customers to please consider using this facility.

Sean Moynihan, CEO of ALONE says, “We have partnered with All Points Payments and The Butler’s Pantry to be the first charity to roll out contactless collection boxes in Ireland. The initiative is designed to allow people who do not carry cash to give money, even when they have no coins to throw into a traditional collection bucket. It is the latest sign of how Ireland is moving towards becoming a ‘cashless’ society. Donating just €2 when you are picking up your coffees helps us to continue to provide services to older people nationwide.”

Jacquie Marsh, Managing Director, The Butler’s Pantry said at the launch in The Butler’s Pantry Sandymount ‘We are delighted to work with Alone, to create awareness for their great work in supporting older people to age with dignity at home. We have a really good feeling about the new ‘tap and give’ facility, it is quick, customer friendly and allows us engage with our customers about Alone. Win Win all the way

 

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