No Waste Food Challenge – Apples
Inspired by the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, Kate from Turquoise Lemons came up with the No Waste Food Challenge, a place to share recipes for leftover food or food that would otherwise end up in the bin.
Inspired by the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, Kate from Turquoise Lemons came up with the No Waste Food Challenge, a place to share recipes for leftover food or food that would otherwise end up in the bin.
This super easy, incredibly moist and flavoursome cream cheese cherry pound cake is the perfect centrepiece for an afternoon tea or any celebration event. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 min Difficulty: Easy A Cape Breton recipe This cream cheese cherry pound cake recipe comes all the way from Cape Breton Island …
Garlic fingers (French: Doigts à l’ail), also known as garlic cheese fingers, are an iconic Atlantic Canadian dish. This recipe tastes as good as you’ll get from Pizza Corner in Halifax. Prep Time: 1.5 hours Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy One of the biggest things I miss from my time living on the East …
Kransekake is a traditional Norwegian celebration cake made with ground almonds, egg whites, and icing sugar. It has a light texture and nutty flavour, quite similar to marzipan. Prep Time: 3 days Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Moderate Christmas traditions This recipe comes from my children’s Norwegian grandmother, and every few Christmases, I make one for …
Pepperkaker are traditional Norwegian gingerbread cookies. They are a deliciously spiced, slightly sweet festive treat and make perfect edible gifts for friends and neighbours. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 36 hours Difficulty: Easy What are pepperkaker? Pepperkaker translates as ‘pepper cakes’. They are traditional Norwegian gingerbread cookies made at Christmastime. They are gently spiced …
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.
These Polish potato, cheese and onion pierogi are easy to make and they’re utterly delicious when served fried with plenty of bacon, onions and soured cream. Prep Time: 2 hours Cooking Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Moderate I love Polish pierogi. When I lived in Canada, I used to be able to buy packages of ready-made ones …
My father is visiting for a few weeks and our elderly ex-whaler neighbour took him loch fishing yesterday and they caught dinner!
I came up with this interesting take on the Black Forest Cake for our weekly Wednesday Pudding Night. My children are so hard done by they usually only get pudding once a week – but Wednesday’s Pudding Night is something they really look forward to.
My father has been visiting from Canada and he introduced me to this fantastic barbecue dish. Something happens to pineapple when you barbecue it. It becomes even more heavenly – caramelised, sweet, chewy, perfection. Just try it!
Some time ago I had an assortment of ingredients in the fridge needing used up and quite fancied making a lasagna. This new lasagna recipe was an experiment created by myself and it went down really, really well with the family.
We’ve never had trout before. I used to go fishing off the end of the pier in the summer and ice fishing in the winter as a child and I could out fish the boys (much to their frustration!), but we never ate what we caught. We just threw it back because no one knew …
When I was a little girl growing up in a village in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, our family used to attend gatherings called Pot Luck Suppers in the village hall.
Semit is an Arabic recipe I first learned about in Claudia Roden’s A New Book of Middle Eastern Food.
These healthy, wholesome and deliciously moreish chewy sunflower seed cookies have been a family favourite for years. Dip in chocolate for an extra delicious treat. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy These cookies are just wonderful, crisp, buttery morsels of awesomeness. I’m unsure where the recipe originated, but it’s been in …
A quick and easy six-ingredient ginger white wine spritzer recipe, perfect for when the sun shines! Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 0 minutes Difficulty: Easy The sun came out yesterday. It was gloriously bright and warm as the wind had died down for a while. At 9 am I was hanging out washing on …
Do you have an abundance of dandelions in your garden? Turn them into this tasty dandelion honey! It has an unusual but pleasant taste and it’s great on waffles, scones, pancakes, ice cream, or whatever your heart desires. Prep Time: 12 hours Cooking Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Easy One woman’s weeds, another woman’s ingredient The …
These Easter “egg cup” cupcakes are a fun Easter treat for the kids. Use your favourite sponge cake to make mini cupcakes, and decorate with buttercream frosting, lemon curd and a white chocolate shell served in your favourite egg cup. Prep Time: 1 hour Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy This year I made Easter …
In this recipe, sun-ripened tomatoes, red onion, goat’s cheese and kalamata olives are drizzled in a homemade balsamic vinegar dressing for a quick and easy salad. Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 0 minutes Difficulty: Easy It’s officially Spring, and what a better Spring-time lunch is there than a lovely tomato, red onion and goats …