A casual conversation about the perils of mushroom foraging with a co worker earlier in the month left me with a real craving for the humble fungi. I love mushrooms, and they will soon star as Food Heroes in their own right, but I have to admit I’m too scaredy to attempt picking my own. […]
Read More Creamy Mushroom RiceQuinoa. Amino acid rich wonder grain, heralded by healthy living types the world over as the answer to pretty much everything. The only trouble I find, is that it’s kind of a bitch to cook as the window between rock hard and granular mush is very slight indeed. As a result, I have a load […]
Read More Home Sprouts Part Two: QuinoaYou know, there was a day a very long time ago that I was under the impression that I didn’t like potatoes. Unthinkable, obviously, it turns out I just really don’t like boiled potatoes (sorry Mum). I mean, what a bloody waste of a perfectly good vegetable! Or tuber or complex carb, whatever, your options […]
Read More Food Hero: The Baked PotatoGardening doesn’t really come easily to me, mostly because I don’t have a garden unless you count the sunless patch of communal grass riddled with fag ends and staffy wee at the front of my block of flats. In fact any hands on cultivation of that land could well end up in literally green fingers. […]
Read More Home Sprouts Part One: Puy LentilsIt’s great to be a girl during BBQ season. Call it sexist but it’s unarguable- Man Make Fire. Man push around lumps of meat over fire. Woman cut up salads then sit in the sun with gin. And on this occasion I didn’t even get salad duty, for the win as the cool kids say. Although I […]
Read More The Ultimate BBQ PrawnsThere are some combinations in life that you can’t go wrong with. Gin and Tonic. Hot dogs and gherkins. Ben and Jerry. And yes, it’s old school and something of a combo cliché: Apples and Cinnamon. But it’s old school and clichéd because it works! Personally, being one of my favourite spices (top 3 at least) I […]
Read More Apple & Cinnamon Cakesed March 2016- Pitt Cue has since relocated to the city, check their website for up to date location and booking details. Being obsessed with the edible is not a rare trait in my family I have to say and more often than not if we are not cooking and eating when we get together, […]
Read More Pitt Cue Co. Your new favourite restaurant.Ah, haggis, signature Scottish foodstuff, official main player of a Burns Night Dinner and noshing nightmare of millions. Lets be honest, locals aside, most of us don’t want to eat haggis for the first time. Why? Because we know what is in it! Yes your traditional haggis is a mix of sheep innards (heart, liver, […]
Read More Are you going to eat……………….Haggis?When considering the cuisine of Scotland, the first two things to come to this mind are haggis and whiskey. We’ll get to the former later, and start out instead on a tale of some hours spent on a sunny Thursday, just off the B9008 in Banffshire. I should make it clear early on, I’m not […]
Read More Foodie Day Trip- The Glenlivet DistilleryGordon Ramsay, God love him, is known to interview potential employees on the strength of their scrambled eggs. You don’t count as a cook if you can’t make decent scrambled egg. I employ an equally fierce vetting system on casual eateries and the quality of their fishfinger sandwich, and today begins the documentation on such […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- Trotters
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