Author: Ally Simpson

On Saturday morning we headed over to Galgorm Castle in Ballymena for a wander around the Food Festival that ran alongside the Northern Ireland Open Golf Challenge over the weekend. We blogged about the Competition here last week. It was early when we visited and many of the stalls were still getting organised for the day ahead but, we had some lovely chats with people and picked up a few amazing locally produced items that we think you should check out. Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil is grown and cold-pressed in Limavady… Broighter Gold Rapeseed oil, owned by Richard & Leona Kane was discovered by accident one evening in 2006. At the time Richard had been pressing our oilseed to make bio-diesel for our local Council. Leona was preparing the tea and had ran out of olive. Richard brought up some of the unfiltered cold pressed rapeseed oil which Leona used to cook their two fillet steaks, and make a salad dressing. It was the smell of the rapeseed oil, that first caught Leona’s attention, and the way the steaks didn’t burn in the pan, but the taste wasn’t bitter, with no after taste like olive oil, and we joked that it was our “Broighter Gold”. It’s amazing! We bought a little gift set so we would have a variety of oils to try out but we cannot believe it...