From Scotland with love...
Travel and Food, the ultimate soulmates
Isle of Ewe Smokehouse, Aultbea
Great Glen Charcuterie
St.Brides Poultry, Strathaven
People Make Glasgow by Andrea Broomfield
When Andrea Broomfield first contacted me about her Celtic Summer project I thought ‘what a wonderful journey’. The connection of Celtic regions has always fascinated me. So when we met up to talk Scottish food, whisky, Celtic travels, and Glasgow, I asked her if she’d share her thoughts on this…
Pig cheeks with Granny Smith’s and cider
There are few things as exciting in life as finding flavour combinations that work. I was chatting to Ruth Harris from Harris Farm Meats at the weekend about the very subject and it was great to discuss different ways of cooking with her free range produce. Ideas just come flooding into the…
Scotland – my beautiful diverse homeland
The cuisine of the people of Scotland has long been a self-deprecating joke about deep fried food, a loathing of anything green and all washed down with any liquid on the yellow to brown spectrum. Though you only need to dig beneath the surface of modern day Scotland and take…
Fyne halibut from Gigha – Smoked halibut crostini
Food festivals are one of the true highlights of spring and summer, the opportunity to get into some wonderful scenery and eat true local artisan produce while chatting to the passionate people who produce it never grows tiring. At Loch Fyne Food Fair on the beautiful banks of that sea…
Gran’s spring vegetable soup
When I was younger I spent a lot of time with my Gran, she looked after us whenever my parents were working, usually with her elder sister. One of my abiding memories of meals with this hilarious double act who would both go on to become nonagenarians was lunches of…
Tablet ice cream
‘What’s tablet?’. It’s a question that probably every Scot has heard at some point in their lives. It’s a kind of Scottish fudge type thing, but isn’t. It’s just tablet. Then you start to explain the ingredients, and get to condensed milk, and you see the eyes light up! Tablet…
Travel and Food, the ultimate soulmates
Travel and holiday has always meant food for me. Whether paella cooked over orange wood in Valencia, oysters from Étang de Thau, or squats lobsters from Applecross, its always been about first experiences, about aroma and flavour of the local cuisine. Recently holidays have been all about Scotland and it…
The Mountain Cafe Cookbook
I used to spend a lot of my childhood holidays in and around Aviemore but I’ve not been to the town in about twenty five years. I think that might need to change in the near future with a visit to The Mountain Cafe, where Kirsten Gilmour, after an interesting personal…