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Cook the Perfect Scotch Beef PGI Steak
Cook the Perfect Scotch Beef PGI Steak How do you like your steak. In our house, my carnivore boys all prefer rare steaks but I’m more of a just slightly over medium person. Getting it right can really make or break a good meal and even spoil the steak. To help make sure we enjoy the…
Ploughman’s Tarts
Ploughman’s Tarts The ‘ beast from the east’ has made it a bit of a make do and mend week in the kitchen. The heavy snow and the fact that I was completely trapped and unable to make it to the shops, meant making sure that any fresh food I had was being well used. Over the…
Scottish Salmon
Honey and Ginger Thai Salmon
Honey and Ginger Thai Salmon Healthy Fast Food Salmon is my healthy go to fast food for mid week meals; after all the average size salmon fillet pan fries in 8-10 minutes. With a few other quick cook ingredients dinner can be on the table in about 20 minutes. Busy schedules in our house means I regularly find myself cooking or reheating…
Marine Harvest Kitchen Theatre at Scotland’s Salmon Festival
Marine Harvest Kitchen Theatre at Scotland’s Salmon Festival. Marine Harvest, Scotland longest established salmon farming company hooked up with five talented Scottish chefs in the Kitchen Theatre at this year’s Scotland’s Salmon Festival to demonstrate a range of healthy and nutritious Scottish salmon dishes. I was delighted to be there with the chefs, chatting about…
In the Veg bag
Parsnip and Carrot Mash. Get ahead for Christmas dinner
It might be too early to get put the sprouts on for Christmas dinner but preparing a few other dishes in advance is my way of getting ahead, and it does make for a more relaxed time in the kitchen on the day itself. With 15 people coming for dinner this year, I need to…
Show the love for pumpkins
Call me a killjoy, if it was Christmas you could call me Ba Humbug, but I really dislike the waste of food at Halloween. I saw it when my own kids were young, bags of sweets and fruit from trick or treating, and of course the huge numbers of pumpkins that are wasted. Okay, that’s the lecture…