When I was a kid and my parents suggested we went out for a family meal, I only ever wanted to go to one place: Beekie’s Nuek. A traditional Scottish pub in the Aberdeenshire village of Newmachar with a fairly generic pub-grub menu, it was (and, by the looks of things, still is) an unassuming, [...]
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Sticky Toffee Pudding
Posted in Recipes, Food, Scotland on February 21, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Sunny Sunday Salmon Salad
Posted in Food, Recipes on February 13, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Half a tin of butterbeans, a big handful of watercress and/or spinach, one cooked and on pre-cooked salmon fillet, flaked. Toss with lemon and olive oil. Eat sitting in the first pool of sunshine to hit your favourite room in over three months!
Signs
Posted in Food, Recipes on February 5, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Smokey Tomato & Rice Soup
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged food, recipes, soup, spring, winter on February 1, 2012 | 11 Comments »
The days are starting to stretch and we have snowdrops under our birch tree. I bought a bunch of daffodils at the supermarket last weekend and there’s a cherry tree down our road that has a few blossoms on it. I’m not saying Spring is here or even that it’s on its way, but I [...]
Sprouting Seeds
Posted in Food on January 22, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Eating these on everything at the moment. I buy a packet at the local health food store and one day they look like this… A bit of soaking and a couple of days later they’re ready to munch and munch and munch and…
Cheese Scones
Posted in Food, Recipes on January 12, 2012 | 16 Comments »
Friday at school is scone day. Two of our best bakers (and we have quite a few) get up early in the morning and bake a couple of batches each. Just before 9am, they carry them carefully into school in big Tuperware boxes, watched from windows all the while. Once securely in the staffroom, the [...]
Spinach & Garlic Meatloaf
Posted in Food, Recipes on December 21, 2011 | 11 Comments »
I feel I ought to tell you something before sharing this recipe. Before this year, I had absolutely no idea what meatloaf actually was. Really. It’s not (as far as I’m aware) something that’s popularly eaten in Scotland. I had heard about it on American TV programmes and films and, in my head, I had [...]
Buttermilk Bread
Posted in Food, Recipes on November 26, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Didn’t mean to stay away for so long… Not sure how that happened… Here’s a lovely loaf for a Saturday morning. It rises like a dream and tastes a little like sourdough which is nice – I keep killing my cultures so have just given up on the real thing. Buttermilk Bread 200 ml warm [...]
Leftover Roast Chicken & Squash Salad
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged chickpeas, favourite, leftover chicken, salad on November 12, 2011 | 10 Comments »
One of David & I’s favourite dinners at the moment. Perfect for using up those leftovers. Leftover Roast Chicken & Squash Salad (Serves 2) 1 squash, cut into 2cm chunks 1 tspn smoked paprika Salt & pepper 400g tin chickpeas 300g (ish) leftover roast chicken – dark or light – shredded Big handful of rocket [...]
Roast Chicken and Root Vegetables
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged eating well, leftovers, roast chicken on November 4, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I’m not generally a creature of habit but in the past few months I’ve been roasting a chicken every single Sunday night. Don’t suppose I need another reason than “roast chicken tastes frickin’ amazing” but there is another reason: leftovers. Free time is not something I have an abundance of right now. Having a big [...]
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