Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
Celebrate Percy Pig’s 25th birthday with this grown-up cocktail recipe featuring your favourite childhood sweets! In collaboration with Marks & Spencer. When is Percy Pig’s Birthday? Percy Pig sweets were born on the 23rd of July 1992 and they’ve come a long way since then. From meeting the love of his life, Penny, in 2013, …
In collaboration with Ribena Doodle Your World. This summer Ribena have launched a brand new app to make your world more Ribenary: Doodle Your World! This augmented reality app allows users to animate videos and photos with the playful Ribenary characters which you can then share on your social media channels. The concept behind the …
Celebrating 180 years with P&O Ferries. The Shetland Islands are a remote island archipelago in the North Sea, 200 miles, as the crow flies, from the Scottish city of Aberdeen. Between 1971 and 2002 P&O Ferries (known then as P&O Scottish Ferries) ran a lifeline service between Aberdeen and Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. This …
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 …
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 …
A guest post in collaboration with Circulon. Do you call yourself a good cook? Then you’ll be able to identify common herbs, have the confidence to add a ‘twist’ to classic dishes – and create the perfect cake, a recent study has found. A poll of 2,000 people revealed the top 50 indicators of culinary …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Brazil is a fusion of many different cultures. During the colonial period the original indigenous people met and mixed with migrants from Lebanon, Italy, Spain, Poland, Germany and Ukraine, to mention a few, and components of their food culture were adopted into the cuisine we know now in the …
In collaboration with Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele. It’s that time of year where the days are lengthening and brightening, but there’s still that cool Spring breeze and occasional snow shower reminding us that winter isn’t quite finished with us yet. Hot soups are still desired, but not the thick heavy comfort soups …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. It’s very nearly BBQ time again! With the longer, sunnier days starting to make an appearance I’m beginning to think about new and interesting ways to jazz up our summer barbeques. I love going on culinary journeys from my own kitchen, exploring the tastes of far off places using …
Perfect picnic food in collaboration with Brioche Pasquier. One of the (many!) perks about working from home includes the freedom to nip out for a coastal picnic office lunch when the weather clears. My husband and I did just that recently; taking a much-needed break away from our current projects (he was editing a soup …
Post sponsored by Volkswagen. There is something intensely satisfying about cooking outdoors over an open wood campfire. The experience of cooking the meal is almost, if not more, pleasurable than the experience of eating it, in my humble opinion. A few summers ago we took the children south to the mainland for the very first time. …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. As a foodie, I spend a lot of time browsing recipes online looking for new dishes and flavour combinations to try out. Earlier on this month saw the annual Rio Carnival in Brazil, and so my Facebook timeline was filled with all sorts of fabulous Brazillian recipes and photos (wouldn’t …
The perfect muesli flapjack recipe to fuel your outdoor (or indoor!) adventures. It’s not too sweet, not too buttery and holds together perfectly – just right! A recipe in collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. I wanted to like bircher muesli. I really did. I tried my best, but do you know what? No matter …
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. Did you know that in 2015 in the UK alone we threw away 7.3 million tonnes of perfectly edible food? That’s £13 billion gone straight into our landfill! In addition to the environmental and social impacts of this waste, we are literally throwing money away! According to Love …
In collaboration with Breville and the #BlendActiveDiary Challenge. Regular readers will know that I like to keep active. I’m a keen cyclist (weather permitting) and I like to spend time outdoors trekking, exploring the local hills and coastline. I also like to daydream of far off adventures. In fact, first thing this morning I finished …
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. Hand’s up, who else is terrible at gauging how much pasta to cook, how many potatoes will feed the family and how much rice is needed? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve been cooking regularly since I was 12, and I am still rubbish at measuring out these …
In collaboration with We Bake, the community that rewards you for baking. When I was a little girl growing up in rural Canada we had a small village shop that sold just about anything you could ever need. There was a meat counter where you watch them cut thick slices of bologna for your dinner …
A French-inspired recipe in collaboration with Scottish Salmon. This week Scottish Salmon celebrates 25 years of holding the French Government’s Label Rouge award. This honour is given only to products of superior taste and quality. Scottish salmon producers are incredibly proud that their salmon was the first non-French food and only Scottish food to join …
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. It’s already week three of the Love Food Hate Waste #GiveUpBinningFood campaign, where is the time going?! This six-week long food waste prevention campaign running throughout Lent is broken down into weekly themes to help make reducing food waste at home a more attainable goal.
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. This week is the second week of the Love Food Hate Waste #giveupbinningfood campaign for Lent. How are you getting on with it so far? Last week we shared plenty of tips and tricks for meal planning, something I had never done before then and really enjoyed creating. …
