Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
If the news is to be believed, the UK mainland is experiencing what can only be described as a real life portrayal of the film The Day After Tomorrow with snow, freezing temperatures and general all around unpleasantness of the cold variety.
Simply… yum! I am a massive fan of buttery caramelized onions. To me they are the ultimate comfort food.
I was fortunate enough to have been gifted a brand new swish Panasonic bread machine for Christmas (thank you Bestemor!) and I’ve been trying out some of the recipes in the booklet that came with it. One of the recipes is for a chocolate brioche.
This chocolate pudding cake is, I do believe, the first chocolate dessert I ever made as a child growing up in Canada.
In light of the current UK food scandal with hidden ingredients in cheaper ready made meals this month’s Breakfast Club, hosted by Heidi from Heidi Roberts Kitchen Talk is all about shopping local.
I confess to having never tried a fresh fig before. They’re ugly little fruits, aren’t they, and I’d never before felt the need to try them.
To celebrate the birthday of a friend I thought I would surprise her with a homemade cake.
This month for Jac from Tinned Tomatoes‘ Pasta Please food bloggers challenge, hosted by Jen from Blue Kitchen bakes, we are tasked with the challenge of making our own pesto.
It’s hard to believe that our youngest has turned four. How the time has flown by!
This month sees the 25th instalment of Dom from Belleau Kitchen’s fantastic Random Recipes food bloggers round up.
This delicately flavoured low calorie vegan soup is adapted from a Rose Elliot recipe found her book Vegetarian Cookery (1998).
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, they say. Many of us claim that we don’t have enough time in the morning to make something healthy, opting for a bowl of dry shop-bought cereal or a slice of toast, if we eat anything at all!
Jazz up your usual tattie and leek soup with some roasted Orkney smoked garlic and some Shetland seaweed.
As many of my readers may be aware, I participate in quite a few food blogging challenges where, each month, we are challenged to cook with a specified ingredient.
There’s nothing better than a proper, old-fashioned oatmeal raisin cookie. I’ve been making this recipe for years, ever since my Canadian grandmother posted me a copy of the 2001 Robin Hood Baking Festival recipe booklet.
We woke this morning to sun, glorious, glorious sunlight. After a long dark winter the sun is very much welcomed!
This recipe was given to me years ago by a dear friend and mother of 4 who is well experienced with feeding a large family on a budget. It makes a perfect side dish for a summer barbecue and is a handy dish to bring along to a gathering of friends when you know there …
My eldest son attends a fantastic after school youth club one day per week. Since it’s right after school and the members are a group of pre-teens/teenagers they are absolutely starving! So, each person brings in a small dish to share with the others.
Last Christmas I made a Gingerbread House for the first time, well, a Fair Isle knitting patterned Shetland Pepperkakehus to be specific. It was a massive thing which sat on the kitchen counter top for two weeks before the children gleefully smashed it to smithereens while eating bits and pieces off it on Christmas Day.
Pasta is remarkably versatile; it is amazing how much you can do with some flour and eggs. This is another of my favourite pasta recipes.
