Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
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A festive alternative, this boneless rolled lamb shoulder is stuffed with a pistachio and orange stuffing and slow roasted until tender. Serve with jewelled couscous and flatbreads, or with roast potatoes and veg. A recipe in collaboration with Lamb, Try It, Love It. It’s that time of year when friends and family are coming …
Tender pieces of succulent lamb with chunky vegetables and rich gravy swimming in a bread “cauldron”. A perfect Halloween lamb stew recipe for your witches and wizards! This easy recipe in collaboration with Try Lamb includes pressure cooker, stove top and slow cooker instructions. I am so excited to share this recipe with you! I may have …
In collaboration with #RobinsonsForGrownups. These lamb mince skewers are seasoned with toasted cumin, fresh mint and feta cheese are inspired by one of the new flavours in the Robinsons Fruit Cordial range for grown-ups, and they are perfect for a summer BBQ. I don’t know if it’s just me, but now that the clocks have …
In collaboration with Tariette. The fresh flavours of the mint and Mediterranean vegetables here are a beautiful match for a succulent, crispy lamb roast. The ease of being able to cook all of this dish together cannot be overstated, and for a roast, it’s quick too—easily under an hour. There’s very little prep, and the …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Stew and dumplings take me right back to my rural Canadian childhood. I grew up on the stuff, and the dumpling recipe I’ve shared here is a slight adaptation to the one that my mother used to make for us as kids. The ultimate comfort food that my own …
In collaboration with Tasty Easy Lamb. This modern take on the classic Burns Night supper is a remarkably quick and easy recipe to make, and it’s the perfect introduction to haggis for people who aren’t really sure if they’ll like it or not. The first time I ever ate haggis (and I confess I was …
A hearty & filling winter vegetable soup made with homemade lamb bone broth, leftover roast lamb and seasonal vegetables. In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Craving a hearty filling soup at the end of these long, cold, dark days? For this recipe, I’ve made a delicious and nutritious bone broth out of leftover roast lamb …
A make-ahead Christmas Canapés recipe in collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Are you going to be doing some Christmas entertaining this festive season? Looking for an easy, make-ahead canapé recipe? I’ve got your back covered here with these roasted lamb and mini bannock Christmas canapés! Here, I’ve roasted a lamb shoulder with garlic and rosemary and …
A simple yet delicious slow-cooked lamb shanks recipe with vegetables and gravy. Serve with creamy mashed potatoes for the ultimate cold-weather comfort food. This reader favourite recipe includes both slow-cooked oven version and crockpot slow cooker recipe instructions. Slow-cooked lamb shanks – an easy Sunday dinner A hearty plateful of succulent, tender slow-cooked lamb on …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Did you know that Shepherds’ Pie is usually made with lamb mince? A mashed potato topped pie made with beef mince is called a ‘Cottage Pie’, a term coined around 1791 when potatoes were introduced as an edible crop affordable for the poor. It’s a cheap and simple dish …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Regular readers will know that I have a tendency to play with my food. Growing up in Canada Halloween was a very big thing with the entire village getting involved. Houses would get decorated, we’d all go trick or treating and there would be a huge party at the …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. It’s National Curry Week! The week of 9-15 October 2017 has been designated the week to celebrate all that is wonderful about curries. As an aside, it’s also National Chocolate Week (isn’t this the best week ever!). To help celebrate National Curry week the team over at Tasty, Easy …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. This recipe was originally supposed to be a marinade for a lamb leg steak BBQ. I purchased all the ingredients and waited for the Shetland weather to give us a good barbecue day in August, and it never did happen. Typical British weather! So, I ended up with some …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. I’ve just come back from an early morning bike ride. There’s a definite air of Autumn in the wind I cycled into on my way back home. It’s this time of year where I start craving hearty comfort food – casseroles, slow cooked dishes, carbohydrates… too many carbohydrates! To …
A #LoveLambWeek recipe in collaboration with Tasty, Easy, Lamb How is it September already?! Where has the time gone? This summer seems to have flown by, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this, no? The first week of September sees the third year of #LoveLambWeek, a week created to unite all …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. So how’s your summer going? I can hardly believe that the kids have gone back to school this week – where did the summer holidays go? We tried one last camping barbecue last weekend, but alas, most of the time was spent hiding in the tent (more on our …
A lamb rack recipe in collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Regular readers will know that I have been doing quite a bit of travelling over these last few months. I’ve been wined and dined in Aberdeen, Scotland, explored some of the finest bistros Paris has to offer, spent a fantastic few days trekking and dining …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Saturday nights are pizza night in our house. We sit around our oversized coffee table in the living room and, as a family, we eat pizza and watch a film together (it’s Avatar this week!). I like to jazz things up a bit with my pizza recipes, like this …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. When I was a little girl my mother used to make the best meat pies ever with leftover Sunday roast. The cold roast was cut into pieces and fed into an electric meat grinder along with an onion and a carrot and bound together with leftover gravy (always of …
A barbecue recipe in collaboration with Simply Beef & Lamb. Last Autumn my husband took the notion that he’d like to go trout fishing next summer. So, for Christmas, I bought him a starter loch trout rod kit from our local fishing tackle shop. Come March I bought him a fishing license so he’s now …
