Game

If any vegetable seems destined to have a complex it’s beetroot. Familiar to most people covered in vinegar, favoured by hipster bakers to make their chocolate cakes sounds cool, rendering [...]

The Christmas festivities have passed, the leftovers eaten or frozen, the new year steak pie well and truly finished. In fact the last vestige of the season is the bottle of mulled wine that you [...]

Bridies used to instill fear in my heart as a child. Seemingly oniony gristle filled nondescript offerings are my recollection. However a good bridie is a thing of beauty, rich, well seasoned [...]

Venison and dark spices were made for each other. The richness of the game alongside the earthy, evocative flavours of black cardamom, star anise, and mace is a work of beauty. When you throw in [...]

Pigeon is a meat which gets a very mixed reaction, for many they automatically think of the dirty grey scraggly ‘rats with wings’ which are so beloved of railway bridges, park [...]

Speyside is a place that I’ve always held dear, seemingly less rugged than the west coast where I spent most of my childhood holidays but at the same time majestic in its own way. I always [...]

Leftovers were a staple for me during my childhood in the west of Scotland. I probably didn’t even know the term existed; we just took it for granted that any food which was left would be reused. [...]

For me when it comes to a celebration of Scottish food venison is the ultimate flavour and venison loin the perfect treat for guests. I particularly enjoy when it is from wild red deer but any [...]

Cooking with pheasant is one of the joys of winter, a bird that is beautiful in feather, and which adds such an amazing aroma to the kitchen when cooking. I prefer to pot braise pheasant as I [...]

 Spending a lot of my childhood summer holidays camping in the highlands I got to know that part of the world pretty well. During these holidays I became acquainted with wild brown trout, picked [...]