Happy Canada Day!! Well what a mad couple of weeks it’s been! Between the whirlwind of the EU referendum (and the ensuing turmoil it seems to have stirred up on both sides), and the end of the school year, it’s all been a bit of a roller coaster. But today was the last day of […]
Category: Spreads and dips
How to make honey sweetened jam
Ever since making my first batch of honey sweetened cranberry sauce a couple of years ago I’ve been quite intrigued by the making of preserves and jam, though I’ve actually experimented with it very little. I’ve made various varieties of curd, fruit butter (which is one of my favourite things in the world)and compote, but […]
Spicy squash and bean dip
The other day I went on a bit of a culinary and linguistic journey, and ended up with delicious spicy squash and bean dip! Result! This recipe started somewhere completely different from where it ended up. I had actually set out to make hummus, but when I found I was out of chickpeas -a horrific […]
Omelet with steamed greens and charred tomato salsa
Last week it was cold. We had snow and sleet and wind. Life in a snow globe which, surprisingly, is not very common for Shetland despite how far North we are. With the chill outside it was time to inject a bit of heat into a frosty morning with an omelet with steamed greens and […]
Spelt scones and cranberry clementine curd
Happy New Year!!! I hope you’ve all had a happy and healthy Christmas, and a joyous night last night. My New Year this year was lovely. Our celebration was quiet and special, and for me the moment led mto some very cathartic reflection. For the past few years I’ve been increasingly veering away from New […]
Honey sweetened cranberry sauce
Happy Monday! This is it, the week of Christmas. The house is full of food, the baking is piling up and the advent calendars are almost finished. Time for some final preparations. And this is one of the easiest and most worthwhile. Honey sweetened cranberry sauce! Here in Shetland cranberry sauce is not really a […]
How to make fruit butter
I like the idea of preserves. The thought that you can take the best of a season and bottle it to enjoy months later is lovely. How excellent to be able to bring a little bit of summer with you into the cold and dark months at the beginning of the year, or that you […]
Kale pesto
I’ve been thinking about kale. I like kale, a lot. I like its ultra green flavour and fibrous texture. I think it’s delicious steamed with a squeeze of lemon juice, or with barley, thrown into a quiche, or whizzed into a smoothie (I don’t even mind the ensuing kale lumps amid the frosty smoothie goodness). […]
Chocolate spice cashew butter
I was browsing around on-line the other day and kept coming across blog posts about the making of nut butter. I really love nut butter (other than peanut butter for some reason, which I think is verging on vile), and have made various forms of it in the past. Several of the blogs talked about […]
Shetland summer-Buckwheat almond crackers with pinto guacamole
In Shetland we have strange summers. The islands sit at 60 degrees North, the same parallel that runs through Alaska, the Northern Territories of Canada, the tip of Greenland, the Aland Islands of Finland, and lies North of Oslo, Norway. At midsummer, or simmer dim as it’s known here, the sun doesn’t fully set, leaving […]