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There’s nothing better than cooking and eating outdoors, especially surrounded by friends and family. To me it rekindles childhood memories of so much cooking on various different modes of heat, [...]

You can’t have a barbecue without salads, and this potato salad with chorizo, and refreshing fennel salad both offset each other perfectly. Make sure you don’t leave the potatoes too big, I like [...]

I can still vividly remember the first visit to my local butcher in a city which shall remain nameless. I asked for one pound of lamb neck. ‘No we don’t get much call for it so we [...]

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 [...]

This is my take on a traditional Scottish dish which is called variously hotch potch or hairst bree (harvest broth). Traditionally made made with neck of lamb or mutton, I prefer to use the shank [...]

 I often feel that gooseberries are the poor relations of the summer berries. Hidden behind thorns, thick skinned, hairy with a brown tail, and with a tartness that can make the sides of [...]

Sales of organic foods are on the rise with 4.5 million people in the UK now being regular organic shoppers. This can only be a good thing for the environment, for the end consumer and for the [...]

Or soup depending on when and how you eat it….. I love these dishes which are interchangeable in style and purpose. While red meats often imply heavy autumnal and winter stews, chicken can [...]

While panzanella and potato salad may be the star sideshows of the barbecue season it is fairly clear in most people’s minds cooking over hot coals means only one thing. Meat. But what does meat [...]

There’s little in this amazing world of flavours that gets me as excited as the one that is currently approaching perfect ripeness. The Scottish raspberry. It has long been my favourite [...]