cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
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 …
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 …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. When we think of lamb we usually think of roast Sunday dinner with mint sauce, or perhaps a Donner kebab on a Saturday night. Regular readers might be aware that lamb recipes are appearing on my blog with more frequency. This is because we have teamed up with Tasty, …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. I do love cooking, but there are busy days when, after dealing with work, family, housework and exercising, I just can’t face spending ages standing in front of the cooker preparing a meal. This recipe and variations of it are my go-to recipe for such occasions. The ultimate comfort …
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 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 …
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 …
In collaboration with Tasty Easy Lamb. I love a proper, hearty bowl of chilli, me. I also like my chilli to have a rich depth of flavour. It’s pointless to just bung loads of hot chilli powder into a beef mince base and chuck in a tin of red kidney beans, I feel. I want …
In collaboration with Tasty Easy Lamb. Bring a taste of the Argentine summer to your table with these South American inspired grilled lamb chops with chimichurri sauce. I don’t know about you, but this winter seems to be dragging on forever. I can’t remember the last time I saw the sun for any length of …
In collaboration with Lamb. Tasty, Easy, Fun. Winter is most definitely here in Shetland. We had a really mild October; an unseasonably warm month with plenty of sunshine. I’m pretty sure there was more sun in October than there was through the whole summer! All of a sudden, it felt, we were hit by an …
A #MiniRoast recipe in collaboration with Simply Beef & Lamb. Lamb is something I never tried until I moved to the UK. For some reason lamb just wasn’t part of our rural Canadian diet, in fact, we rarely saw fields of sheep – cattle, yes, but not sheep. Now, lamb is a regular part of …
In collaboration with Merchant Gourmet #EatWellLiveWell. “Shetland to avoid scurvy epidemic as boat brings fruit and veg”, reads the latest headline from Shetland’s spoof news website, Da Bonxie. They’re not kidding. After a spell of poor weather and cancelled ferry sailings, it’s been slim pickings in the fresh fruit and veg departments at our local …
