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Changing Times
It feels like everything has changed but nothing has changed – Food and cooking remain the constant familiar ingredients in daily life.’ When I started writing A Wee Pinch of Sugar over 6 years ago, I thought it would be a good way to keep my brain active as I had given up full time…
Sausage Hotpot
Sausage Hotpot A Great One Pot Wonder. The season for comfort food is well and truly underway and one dish that’s usually a favourite for family meals is a sausage casserole or hotpot. And, when the dish is all cooked in the one dish, it’s a winner for great flavours and of course it saves…
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…