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Category Archives: Recipes
Minty Pea Purée on Sourdough Toast
Pea purée on buttered wholemeal spelt sourdough bread. Few foods can match the vivid green of puréed frozen peas. The fresh taste of the peas combines beautifully with the mint an lemon to produce a very green flavour. Gena Hamshaw of … Continue reading
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Adventures in sourdough bread.
Wholemeal spelt sourdough bread with oxtail stew. I have never baked my own bread. This is despite having had a go at cooking many different things over the years and so recently I decided to rectify this omission. Given that … Continue reading
Baked lamb breast dinner and brunch
Leftovers for brunch. Sliced lamb breast, fried eggs with vegetable and mashed potato cakes. Cheap, tough and fatty, lamb breast may not appear at first glance to be the most desirable joints of meat but after a long slow bake in the oven … Continue reading
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Seaweed Oatcakes
Few foods rival the iconic status of oatcakes in the traditional Scottish diet. Making them for myself has recently become an aim of mine through which I have learnt that while the various traditional recipes are simple enough their execution … Continue reading
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The Arbroath Smokie
A pair of Arbroath Smokies tied at the tails High above the shingle beach and tiny dilapidated harbour on the rocky clifftops of the Angus coast north of Arbroath lies the village of Auchmithie the original home of what was once … Continue reading
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Bere and Beremeal Bannocks
Beremeal bannock with Orkney cheese and rowan jelly “At the sight of Dumbarton once again, I’ll cock up my bonnet and march amain, With a gude claymore hanging down at my heel, To whang at the bannocks o’barley-meal.” – John, … Continue reading
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Cullen Skink
Cullen Skink Cullen skink is a traditional thick Scottish soup originating from the North East of Scotland that has remained popular to the present day. It can be found on the menus of local restaurants here in the North East and is often served … Continue reading
Atholl Brose
Atholl Brose Whisky, oatmeal, honey, and sometimes cream. While not an obvious combination for a drink, there are few things as Scottish as this ancient libation that could be called a cocktail if it did not date from a time … Continue reading
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Blackberry Whisky
Having been enthused by my attempts at Elderberry liqueur I have endeavor to concoct some other alcoholic infusions this autumn. Inspired by my like of malt whisky I investigated the use of whisky as the infusing spirit. In my copy of The Scots … Continue reading
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Razor shells
Razor shells fresh from the fishmonger. Razor shells, also known as razor clams, are bivalves that are commonly found around the coasts of the British Isles. While common they are by all accounts not easy to catch as when sensing … Continue reading
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The call of the Honeyguide 