Fresh Fig, Goats Cheese, Pear & Walnut Salad
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.
Sugar Rose Lemon Cake
To celebrate the birthday of a friend I thought I would surprise her with a homemade cake.
Walnut & Rosemary Pesto
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.
Angry Birds Birthday Cake
It’s hard to believe that our youngest has turned four. How the time has flown by!
Chocolate-topped Cupcakes
This month sees the 25th instalment of Dom from Belleau Kitchen’s fantastic Random Recipes food bloggers round up.
Carrot, Ginger & Quinoa Soup
This delicately flavoured low calorie vegan soup is adapted from a Rose Elliot recipe found her book Vegetarian Cookery (1998).
The Green Vegan Breakfast Smoothie with Almond Breeze
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!
Roasted Garlic, Tattie & Leek Soup
Jazz up your usual tattie and leek soup with some roasted Orkney smoked garlic and some Shetland seaweed.
Chocolate Dipped Crystallized Ginger
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.
Cranberry Raisin Oatmeal Cookies
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.
Three Bean Couscous Salad
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 …
Homemade Nutri-Grain Bars
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.
Caribbean Dream Squares
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.
Seaweed Farfalle & Pesto with Fiery Chilli Halloumi
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.
Seaweed Pesto
Liven up your homemade pesto with the addition of coarsely ground dried seaweed. Seaweed is known to have a multitude of health benefits and it contains a wide variety of trace minerals and nutrients.
Hummus (Tahini Free)
I love hummus! Would you believe that when I was younger I only ever ate the shop-bought variety? It seemed far too exotic, when I was first living on my own, to make such a thing, but then I discovered that it only takes 5 minutes to prepare from start to finish.
Double Chocolate Chilli Brownies
Sunday mornings are our family outdoor walk days. It’s cold in Shetland on a January morning, so I thought I’d whip up something with a bit of kick to help warm us from the inside when we’re out.
Cauliflower & Pear Soup
This soup recipe is adapted from one found in Alfred Vogel’s Naturally Fresh & Delicious recipe book.
Vegan Banana Bread
This recipe is the first vegan baking recipe I ever developed. I remember making it around 15 years ago for a vegan restaurant-owning friend of mine, much to his delight.
Vegan Chocolate Truffles (Sugar Free)
Last night I was in the mood for chocolate. We’re talking serious chocolate indulgence here. I had a rummage around the cupboard and found a bar of sugar free Plamil chocolate I’d bought back in November 2012 when I was on a sugar-free kick