Wild Food

Pork is one of those meats that seems to split opinion. The free range, full flavoured, rare breed meat I get from Harris Farm Meats is a world away from insipid factory farmed pork that so many [...]

It’s interesting that this recipe is described such as wild garlic and kale soup, rather than flat rib braised with wild garlic. So often soup is the bi-product of a stewed or roast meat [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Once a poverty food, seaweed is now a sought after ingredient that hides the so called fifth taste, umami. At high tide limpets use their feet to wander from their rock to get their radulas into [...]

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 [...]