Hot Flavours: 10-year aged bourbon, smoked scamorza, tamarind sauce, Georgian puff pastries and more

In the same week that he was celebrating his 80th, Redbreast Irish Whiskey confirmed a limited edition collaboration with Bob Dylan's Heaven's Door Whiskey.

Created by the brands' respective Master Blenders and therefore going out under the Master Blenders' Edition banner, the liquid in the handsome looking bottles is a 10-year aged bourbon finished in Redbreast casks.

"Mr. Dylan is a perfectionist and knows his whiskey," says Redbreast's Billy Leighton. "His engagement and enthusiasm for this collaboration made it even more special."

While no bottles are commercially available in Ireland, we've managed to bag five, which if you're 18 or over you have a chance of winning now on hotpress.com.

We've had a preview sip, and can confirm it's a truly wondrous drop.

Not content with being a trained windsurfing and white water kayaking instructor, lifeguard, hen party coordinator, artist and actor who played Michael Collins in Rebellion, multitasking Leesider Sebastian Thommen has bagged himself a Credit Union loan and converted a 1960s horsebox trailer into the Toast food truck.

Currently residing every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11am-4pm on the Old Faery Trail in Cork's Ballinlough Park, his artisan ingredient list includes Toonsbridge Dairy smoked scamorza, Macroom buffalo mozzarella, Gubbeen, Ardsallagh goats feta, Declan Ryan's Arbutus Bread, Tom Durcan spiced beef, his own roasted garlic mayo and Ballymaloe Relish. Yum!

Whet your appetites even further at facebook.com/toastcork.

While Lord Henry & Co. wait to reopen their distillery to the public and perhaps sneak in a celebration of it being forty years since they started running gigs there, Slane Castle has polished up its silver Airstream food truck, which is parked up on the estate and open to all every Thursday through Sunday from 10am-4pm.

You're welcome to stay for as long as you want during those hours to savour the food and the surroundings.

Furry friends on a lead are welcome too, and will doubtless try cadging one of Slane's legendary sausage rolls off you.

Noticing how many vats of it their customers were getting through when they popped up recently in Cleggan, Connemara, the Sea Hare Café has launched its Tamarind Sauce into 80 independent food emporia nationwide.

Yum with everything from bao buns and pizza to beans on toast and cheese toasties, it's €6.50 a jar and worth every cent. Find out where to find it at theseahare.ie/tamarind-sauce.

The same address also has details of their Sunday and Wednesday Pick Up Menu, which should be ordered no less than 48 hours in advance and includes such delights as Connemara Lamb, Black Bean and (natch!) Tamarind Chilli, Whole Poached Salmon and Veggie Katsu Curry, all for six people who we assure you will be delighted.

Newly up and running at 95 Talbot Street, Dublin 1 is Ella's Heaven, an 8am-8pm café specialising in freshly baked Georgian puff pastries stuffed with a choice of beef, potato, mushroom, spinach, chicken and - best of all - the crumbliest and saltiest of feta.