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The Sunday Business Post, Agenda Magazine -November 2010

Ros Drinkwater strongly recommends Christmas Made Easy under the header Talking Turkey and writes "even the most experienced home cook can find preparing Christmas dinner a tricky task, especially if they are catering for their extended family" . Click here to read >>

Irish Examiner - November 2009

Flop while you shop, going on line for Christmas goodies can ensure you great quality, writes Ros Crowley ...Click here to read >>

Irish Farmers Journal - December 2008
Have your Christmas dinner prepared by award-winning chefs Hazel and Neil McFadden this season, writes Katherine O’Leary......Click here to read >>

Irish Independent November 5th 2008 Food and Wine supplement
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Stuff the turkey -Sunday Tribune, 11th November 2007
And it’s only six weeks and two days to Christmas.  Please don’t fret.  We’re not trying to put the fear into you but just to alert you to the fact that there are some things you could do right now to prevent a meltdown at a later stage.  Take Christmas dinner for example.  Maybe you’re the super-organised sort who already has it under control.

However, if the morning of the 25th generally sees you wondering if 10am is too early for a G&T and muttering “bloody sprout sprouts”, take a look at what the company Christmas Made Easy can do for you.  They’ll arrange, make and deliver a five-course traditional feast with all the trimmings, catering for various group sizes and all you have to do is cook it.  The produce is high-quality artisan and there’s also a goose menu, as well as a more alternative one.

Brendan Bites -Sunday Independent, LIFE Magazine, 5th December 2004
…. My suggestion would be that people should start going to hotels.  Or, alternatively you could do this, which to my mind is the best idea ever.  It’s live having a hotel come to you.  Neil McFadden is offering Christmas dinner delivered to your home.  You’ll have to actually stick it in the oven yourself, but everything will be totally prepared and you’ll be given foolproof instructions.  The deal includes marinated smoked salmon and dressing and bread, soup, a turkey, a ham, stuffing, chipolatas, carrots and broccoli, roast potatoes, wild cranberry sauce, turkey gravy, plum pudding and brandy butter, ‘Chocolate Something’ and an Irish cheese selection. …

Taking it easy - -Irish Independent Weekend, 27th November 2004
…. And, for the most important person in the Christmas family circle - the cook - I would be hinting heavily this weekend that a very acceptable gift might be the ultimate trouble-free real Christmas dinner at home: why not allow the highly respected Dublin chef Neil McFadden to do the shopping and preparation for you, so that you have the minimum amount to do on Christmas Day, allowing you to enjoy time with family and friends?  This would be ideal for anyone who is working right up to Christmas and finds it difficult to make time for food shopping - and for the cook who has no right-hand helper and ends up doing too much him/herself.  Neil has devised a wonderful traditional Christmas menu to serve eight to ten hungry people generously (with plenty to spare for a St Stephen’s Day feast), including a free range oven-ready bronze turkey from Cavan, and a gammon of Limerick ham; everything is prepared, cooking instructions for the turkey and ham given, soup ready to reheat, a chocolate dessert included as well as Christmas pudding - and a selection of Irish farmhouse cheeses.  There’s a detailed time-plan included, all ingredients are sourced from Quality Assured suppliers, certified Feile Bia members and artisan producer - and suppliers information is included in the menu pack.

Make a meal of it -The Irish Times Magazine, 13th November 2004
Christmas Day should not see you tied to the kitchen stove.  It should be for relaxing and doing the minimum of work.  Clever chef, Neil McFadden, has come up with a great idea for keeping it simple on Christmas Day.  On the 23rd or 24th, you receive a hamper with every piece of food you could need to feed eight people.  The package includes sliced smoked Castletownbere salmon, dressed free-range Cavan turkey, Limerick ham with honey, as well as all the garnishings and extras like thyme and chestnut stuffing, cloves and cider, wild cranberry sauce, plum pudding and brandy butter.  All the vegetables are ready to throw into the oven and there are complete cooking instructions and a detailed time plan, so that everything runs to schedule and everybody thinks you are completely and utterly brilliant.  Nicoline Greer