Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
fuel that adventure
Recipe, review & giveaway. Summer, allegedly, is going to hit Shetland on Thursday next week, they say. They also say that this has been the worst summer weather for 30 years. Rain, drizzle, cold… and now fog sits on these islands, preventing flights from landing. The wind has stopped, but oh my the midges are …
Chocolate, peanut and marshmallow swirl cupcakes! Give me s’more! Did you ever enjoy s’mores as a child? Picture it, an open camp fire, two graham crackers smeared with peanut butter, chocolate chips pressed into the sticky peanut butter so that there were no gaps at all, two or three giant marshmallows stuck on the top …
An afternoon tea loaf made with Yogi Classic Tea – an Ayurvedic blend with cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. I am well familiar with the Yogi Tea brand. Having previously worked in the independent health food industry for a decade of my life, Yogi Tea was a regularly stocked and popular item. NEW LOOK – SAME TEA Yogi …
Rosemary-infused olive oil lends a savory note to this Mediterranean inspired bundt cake. A few months ago I mentioned on Facebook that I needed to get out of the house more. Full time blogging can be a lonely occupation with hours and hours spent by oneself experimenting with food in the kitchen, and even more …
A recipe commissioned by Redmond. As a food blogger I am regularly approached by a wide variety of food related companies looking for honest opinions about their products or services. I love these challenges – trying out new things is something I really enjoy, so when Redmond contacted me last year asking if I’d …
Fresh lime juice takes these cupcakes to a whole new level. My husband came home from work the other day to find four strangers sitting at our kitchen table eating their lunch. When he told me this after I returned home after my day out, I belly laughed, and then, as the realization slowly dawned …
Freeganism: the practice of reclaiming and eating food that has been discarded. Regular readers might be aware of an appalling lack of recipe posts on my blog as of late. This is for several reasons: a) This past winter has been a long and dark one and I have found the poor light quality caused …
A rich, warmly spiced gingerbread cake recipe from my childhood. This remarkably light and fluffy cake is served with a generous spoonful of warm lemon sauce, the way they did in the village pot luck suppers I used to go to when I was a child. Thoughts on Mother’s Day and childhood [cue: American-style nostalgia-inducing …
In collaboration with Dr. Oetker Baking. I absolutely love organizing and throwing birthday parties for my children. It’s one of those things I can get completely immersed in what with all the planning and creativity. I also might be overcompensating for the fact I’ve never had a birthday party of my own! They don’t get …
“This was the best birthday party I’ve ever been to!” – 8 year old party guest. This month saw my beautiful, clever and incredibly talented daughter turn eight years old. She doesn’t get a big birthday party celebration every year, but when she does I like to try and make it a little bit extra …
Before I started receiving a weekly organic vegetable box the only beetroot I’d ever really tried was the pickled variety from the supermarket. Occasionally I would pick up a pack of boiled, ready to eat, shrink-wrapped beetroot to make the chocolate beetroot cake recipe from the Green & Black’s Chocolate Recipes book (2003). It made a …
I may live as far away from Glasgow as I possibly can and still be considered to living in Scotland, but the Commonwealth Games have touched our rural island village in the middle of the north sea. On the 1st of July the Queen’s Baton Relay came to our village. The buzz on the day …
My regular readers might have noticed my blogging silence over the last fortnight – that’s because as a family we’ve been away adventuring! We spent 12 days away; covering 1500 miles and camping in the Lake District in England and in the heart of the Cairngorms in Scotland. I’ve plenty of adventure stories to share …
A few weeks ago I had a late night chocolate cake craving. Both Gingey Bites and the BritMums Bibs 2014 Food winner Lucy over at Supergolden Bakes came to the rescue with recipes. I didn’t have all the ingredients for either of their cakes, so I improvised, and I was very pleased with the results. …
I’ve always been a big fan of rhubarb. We had a giant rhubarb patch in our garden growing up and my great-grandmother used to grow a miniature variety which I used to eat raw. I loved it so very much. I’ve been fortunate that nearly every house I’ve lived in as an adult has come …
This May and June thousands of people in the UK, USA and Canada are taking part in the Live Below The Line Challenge by the Global Poverty Project. This challenge asks people to spend £1 or less, per person, for food and drink every day for five days in a bid to help us understand …
Well the wee man is another year older. Five years old means “big boy” and much closer to the wise old age of his big sister than the age of four was. She is seven and is held in great esteem with regards to her vast knowledge of the world.
Pound cake always reminds me of being a child. When I used to have a little extra pocket money (usually after selling picked wild berries to the neighbours) I’d head to our little village shop and buy a pound cake.
My daughter has inherited my tastes for all things quirky and odd. She’s as fond of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (2002) (made into a film by Henry Selick in 2009) as I am, so when I asked if she might like a Coraline themed birthday cake this year I was delighted when she said yes.
Nearly twenty years ago I sat at my grandmother’s dining room table in rural Eastern Canada scoffing slabs of home made pumpkin bread thick with butter and chatting about this, that and the other thing, as granddaughters are wont to do with their grandmothers.
