Having your Meat and Eating it – Skinni Meat Range – Perfect Diet Meat for Carnivores: While I do genuinely try to cut back the quantity of red meat I eat, becoming a vegetarian is probably not on the cards for me. I love my meat casseroles, bolognese sauces, chilli con carne, burgers and sausages. […]
Balblair Whisky at Mac and Wild
Balblair with Mac and Wild: A match made in heaven is a term that’s often overused, but every now and again can be appropriately used to great effect. One of the oldest Highland Whisky distilleries in Scotland, Balblair, teamed up with Mac and Wild, a restaurant that serves the very best of Scottish ingredients, game […]
A Simple Cranachan Dessert
Cranachan Made Simple: I’ve made cranachan for years, but, while the recipe was never quite the same from meal to meal, it wasn’t until I came across a recipe for ‘Cranachan Trifle‘ from BBC Good Food that I tried sweetening the toasted oats, making a kind of granola, rather than adding a lot more honey […]
Burns Night Supper with IWSC and Think.Eat.Drink
Toasting The Bard Just A Bit Early – Burns Night Preview: With a great grandfather from Skye and a whole host of relatives on my father’s side hailing from the west coast islands it’s hardly suprising that I love Burns Night. Originally held to commemorate the great bard’s death, at a certain point the supper […]
In Pursuit of Excellence – Chivas at Bam-Bou
Learning to Blend Whisky at Bam-Bou with Chivas: I did initially wonder why a rather special Asian restaurant in Fitzrovia would be running a Scottish whisky blending event. But of course, premium blended whisky is very popular in Japan and the Red Bar at Bam-Bou is home to a fine collection of Japanese whisky. According […]
Boisdale Canary Wharf
Jazz and fine Scottish Food at Boisdale Canary Wharf: Cabot Square, Canary Wharf is just off the main shopping area and as such has a slightly quieter, classier feel. On our way to Boisdale for dinner we stopped off at Iberico for apperitifs and I kept looking longingly at the legs of Iberico Jamon…we’ll definitely […]
Kippers and Oatcakes – A Very Scottish Breakfast
A Scottish Breakfast – Kippers and Oatcakes: When I was a little girl my father used to take me up to visit my Great Aunts in Scotland. Morag, Margaret and Jessie lived on the outskirts of Edinburgh, although they’d been born on Skye. All three spoke Gaelic and all three had trained as teachers. When […]