Now I know that these have been quite the rage amongst the healthy folk of North American in the past few years, but let me tell you a bit about the role of kale in the Scottish diet…’cuz we like own kale babe. For a quick refresher, kale is a member of the cabbage family [...]
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Due to an unforeseen miracle of changing Freeview boxes I now (after 10 years mind you) get a few precious hours of the Food Network a day. That is the good news – the bad news is that the window in which this miracle occurs is limited to between 8-10 pm so I have been watching the same [...]
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The region or county that I live in is called Fife, more commonly know as The Kingdom of Fife. Long before there was a notion of a land called “Scotland”, this peninsula of land was said to be the lower Kingdom of the Picts (or Painted Peoples) known as Fib. These ancient boundaries and names persist very much into the present [...]
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Many thanks to our new contributor Colin Muir for this first hand account of his visit to St. Kilda. Colin works as a Stone Conservator at Historic Scotland and also specialises in close range 3D scanning of many of Scotland’s treasures. Smarty-pants extraordinaire, smok’n babe and my hubby, and you can read more about some of [...]
I have a confession, I am having a food affair. And it is all the fault of this woman; my friend Linn from Sweden. While I am indeed totally committed to exploring and sharing Scottish ingredients and food with you, Linn’s cooking and even more so her baking is just too distractingly good – so I [...]
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My husband has been travelling quite a bit as of late which usually gives me a chance to catch up on some reading. However, while putting fresh sheets on my bed today the most recent pile of books got knocked off their various perches on and around my bedside table. The ensuing mess made for [...]
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There is something about this blustery weather that is putting me in the mind of tailgates (will explain in a sec), outdoor continental markets and the boldness of the Autumn cook-out party. In the more northerly of the US States cold, rainy or snowy weather is no reason why you should not stand outside (often around a keg of [...]
Oct 29, 2011 | 3 comments | View Post
As we most definitely turn to autumnal gales, I wanted to share this one last shining moment of summertime dining that I first discovered just a few weeks ago. That is the delicious, crunchy, salty and all around weird delicacy – SAMPHIRE! According to Wikipedia this edible sea grass (pronounced sam-fyre), was originally known as “sampiere” in [...]
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Hooray it is a sunny and warmish day, so pull that cover off the BBQ ’cause the outdoor cooking season isn’t over just yet! Even though most people will have been firing up the BBQ for hot dogs, burgers and chicken for months now, I would encourage you to give this dish a try. Not only [...]
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Before I proceed in posting a flurry of cooking entries, I thought I would take a moment to address the old Imperial vs Metric issue. As you can see from the picture below, I employ a wide variety of tools to concoct and/or reinterpret other’s recipes from as many countries as I can get my [...]
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