Vegetarian Sweet Potato and Bean Burrito
A vegetarian sweet potato and bean burrito recipe packed full of cycling-specific nutrition. This Veloform recipe is perfect for rustling up and taking out on the mountain bike trails to fuel that adventure.
Lancashire Hotpot
Lancashire hotpot is a delicious, slow-cooked lamb stew with layers of thinly sliced potatoes. This classic north-west England recipe is in collaboration with Albert Bartlett potatoes. What is Lancashire hotpot? Lancashire hotpot is a traditional, British slow-cooked mutton or lamb stew originating from Lancashire, in the north-west of England. The name is derived from …
Saag Aloo – Indian Spinach and Potato Curry
Albert Bartlett, the UK’s leading fresh potato supplier, is celebrating their 70th anniversary. To help celebrate, I’ve recreated a popular recipe from the 1970s, when the Indian takeaway in the UK began to surge in popularity: saag aloo, or spinach & potato curry. In collaboration with Albert Bartlett. About Albert Bartlett In 1948 Albert …
BBQ Salmon Parcels with Cornish New Potatoes, Asparagus, Lemon & Thyme
A quick and easy BBQ recipe featuring seasonal Cornish new potatoes, asparagus and succulent salmon fillets seasoned delicately with lemon, white wine and thyme. Sponsored by Branston, supplier of Cornish New Potatoes to Tesco. It’s nearly summertime! We’ve had such an extraordinary spell of good weather here in Shetland (bar those few days when we got …
Twice-Baked Potatoes with Bacon & Soured Cream
Jazz up your baked jacket potatoes with some crispy smoked bacon and soured cream. It wasn’t until I went to university that I ever tried a baked potato. Why this simple meal wasn’t part of our childhood diet, I don’t know, but I tell you I fell in love with that humble baked jacket potato …
Cream Cheese & Chive Mashed Potatoes
A simple mashed potatoes recipe in collaboration with Co-op Irresistible. A bowlful of creamy mashed potatoes, is, in my humble opinion, one of the finest winter comfort foods out there. Pasta comes a close second. I’ve just come back from another amazing trip to the Caribbean – straight from the oven into the cold, Shetland …
42 of our Favourite Potato Recipes #SaveOurSpuds
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. Potato season officially begins now with these longer, colder nights and sudden cravings for all things carbohydrate (ok, that could just be me…). Potato season means a surge in potato sales and therefore, potentially a rise in the number of potatoes thrown away. Potatoes are one of the …
Traditional Polish Dumplings with Cheese and Potatoes (Pierogi Ruskie)
A recipe by Ren Behan from her book Wild Honey & Rye. Pierogi were the first Polish food I ever tasted. I was living in an apartment building shared with a few flatmates back in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when I discovered a fairly inexpensive bag of cheese and onion dumplings in the freezer section our …
Roasted Garlic & Grilled Baby New Potato Salad
In collaboration with Sainsbury’s British Gems Baby New Potatoes. We have had such a wonderful summer so far! The sun’s been shining brightly, the wind has died down and *fingers crossed* the midges seem to be keeping at bay! It’s been perfect barbecue weather! For our latest barbecue, we made some simple pork skewers and served …
Homemade Fish Fingers, Paprika-Spiked Potato Wedges & Tartare Sauce
An #RNLIFishSupper recipe in collaboration with the RNLI & Albert Bartlett Potatoes. We love fish suppers in our house. Unfortunately, our nearest chippie is a half an hour’s drive away, which means that we usually make our own at home instead. Fortunately, said chippie, Britain’s most northerly, was voted the best chippie in the UK …
Creamy Roasted Garlic & Chive Mashed Potatoes
In collaboration with üutensil & Albert Bartlett. It’s that time of year again when we stop craving salads and opt for carbohydrate loaded comfort food dishes – rice, pasta and potatoes. Ok, maybe that’s just me. The vibrant light dishes of summer are replaced with filling and warming recipes corresponding with an instinct to hibernate, …
Herbed Potato Picnic Bannocks
They say that familiarity breeds contempt. I’ve called Shetland home now for over 17 years. Shetland, in case you don’t know, is a little island archipelago in the North Sea midway between Iceland, Norway and Scotland. It measures a mere 80 miles from tip to tip and about 35 miles wide. It really is a …
Potato Canapés with Bacon and Asparagus
In collaboration with Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise. I confess, when I was growing up in Canada mayonnaise was not one of those things that regularly appeared on the menu. In fact, I actively avoided it as it was this strange, unsual condiment and I really had no idea what I was supposed to do with …
Our Family Favourite Potato Salad Recipe
In collaboration with Chippa – the UK’s only free-from condiment range. There’s something intensely satisfying about a table filled with food, a table so full that there’s no room to sit – you all have to stand around the outside of it and pick, graze and nibble until your belly is full. What makes it even better …
Cheesy Mashed Tatties & Kale
Perfect with Shetland lamb chops or grilled sausages. Did you know that next week (the 6th – 12th of October) is National Potato Week in the UK? A whole week dedicated to the awesomeness of the potato! Potatoes, tatties, totties, taters, spuds… what do you call them? We are very lucky to be one of …
Leftover Roast Beef & Potato Hash
I’m not a very big fan of leftovers. With so many wonderful recipes out there to try the thought of eating the same old thing three days in a row really doesn’t appeal to me.
Shetland Black Potato & Fennel Gratin
A perfect, creamy heritage potato accompaniment for roast Shetland lamb. September in Shetland, my remote archipelago home in the North Sea, means the return of many things. The winter gales, for starters, blowing away any remnants of summer one might have forgotten in the garden.
Potato Croquettes
My regular readers may recall me saying on a previous bread post that I’m in a bread phase right now. I’m making and enjoying all sorts of different breads recently and this often forms the main carbohydrate component of a meal.
Chocolate Pistachio Cake
This month I am hosting Turquoise Lemons’ No Waste Food Challenge, where each month we’re asked to share recipes which use up leftovers in a bid to reduce food waste. I chose mashed potatoes, as I always make far too much.
Roasted Shetland Black Potatoes with Sea Salt and Rosemary
Shetland Black potatoes are an heirloom variety of potato from Shetland (little island, 60 degrees North, middle of the North Sea, check it out on your map!). They have a gorgeous dark purple skin, yellow flesh and a distinctive purple ring inside and they make wicked roast potatoes.