cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
A delicious to-go soup recipe plus the Big Outdoor Bloggers Cleanup! This week sees the Big Outdoor Bloggers Cleanup – a country wide litter pick helping to tackle the problem of single use plastic. It’s also my husband’s week off work (the nature of his work means he works six days a week for five …
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin’-race! Haggis, whisky and poetry are the three essentials of a Burns Night Supper. In this round-up we’ve gathered together 38 of the finest Scots inspired Burns Night recipe ideas to help create your show-stopping menu.
These porridge sachets will help keep you fuelled for your epic bike-packing or camping adventures. Just add hot water. Packing for a bikepacking trip – what food to take? I absolutely love camping. Road trips with the family mean you can pack as much as you want into the car boot and head off, however …
Issue 16 of our weekly bite-sized review series. This week we’ve been taste testing all sorts of lovely new things: the highest quality olive oil straight from Italy, a Japanese seasoning made with Scottish seaweed, healthy protein snacks, Korean fried rice and some rather delicious sparkling ginger beer.
A winter orca-chasing coastal walk and a warming bowl of soup. There seems to have been an increase in the number of orca sightings around our beautiful islands over the last year, for some reason. So much so that a Facebook group (Shetland Orca Sightings) has been set up by Shetland Wildlife specifically for people …
An epic bikepacking adventure through Scotland to the summit of Ben Nevis: Part 3 In the summer of 2016 my friend and I undertook a rather grand adventure. Regular readers will know all about it, but if you’re new to my blog here’s a quick recap: I turned 40 at the end of 2016, and …
Helping to prevent food waste one recipe at a time. Happy New Year! May I take this opportunity to wish all of my readers and fellow bloggers all the best for 2017. May it be the best year yet for you all! Now that the Christmas decorations have all been cleared, and the fridge looks …
Post sponsored by Volkswagen. I am an adventurer at heart, I truly am. As a child I could always be found in the forests of the Canadian wilderness, exploring every tree nook and cranny, always wondering what was on the other side of the next hill. That childhood curiosity hasn’t left me and now I enjoy …
In collaboration with Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele. Preparing Christmas dinner can often be quite a stressful experience. So many dishes, so few hobs and so little oven space. Here’s a quick and easy side dish recipe that can be prepared in advance as it needs to be served at room temperature. It’s a …
In collaboration with Davidstow Cheddar. I love a good cheeseboard, me. They can be as simple as apple wedges and grapes served with a wedge of cheese and a packet of crisps for a quick and easy snack or lunch, or something as extravagant as several cheeses, olives, cured meats, a selection of crackers and savouries …
Available exclusively from Harrods. Christmas has come early to our house. A few days ago (on my 40th birthday, in fact!) I took delivery of the most posh collection of festive foodstuffs to ever cross the threshold of our house. When this arrived I truly felt I’d made it in the world of a professional …
In collaboration with Albert Bartlett Potatoes & Üutensil. So who else put up their Christmas tree this weekend? We usually don’t put up our tree until the 12th of December, but this year my best friend surprised us and delivered a tree to us on Saturday afternoon. She’d picked up a five foot real Christmas …
In collaboration with Brioche Pasquier. It’s my blogaversary today! Well, at least, I think it’s today… I know it was the end of November, a few days before my own birthday, when I first set up a private food blog on Blogger. Fast forward five years and my little space of the internet is thriving, …
Issue 14 of our weekly bite-sized review series. This week we’ve been taste testing all sorts of wonderful things – from a subscription box that sends you all the spices needed to make restaurant quality meals at home in under 20 minutes, the finest in Italian food and chocolate, a date night subscription box and …
In collaboration with Simply Beef & Lamb. This time of year all I want to do is sit curled up on the couch with my favourite patchwork blanket, candles lit, fireplace belting out heat, and spend time with my family. The Shetland Islands, where I live, lie at the same latitude as the southern tip …
An epic bikepacking adventure through Scotland to the summit of Ben Nevis: Part 2 In June of 2016 I set off, with a friend, on an epic bikepacking fundraising cycle from Britain’s most northerly RNLI lifeboat station in Aith, on the west side of Shetland. Our destination: the summit of Ben Nevis. You can read …
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 …
Issue 13 of our weekly bite sized review series. This week we’re sharing the opportunity to personalise a jar of Marmite with your own text, we’ve got a brand new cast iron casserole dish, a personalised mixing bowl, chalk markers (with an exclusive discount code) and a children’s advent calendar craft kit plus a Christmas …
In collaboration with Feel Good Drinks Co. It’s that time of year when the parties begin! They don’t really seem to stop until after New Year, do they, and even then here in Shetland there’s Up Helly Aa, Europe’s largest fire festival, to look forward to after the festivities have finished. I’m not going to …
In collaboration with Butterkist. Crunchy, chewy, sweet and salty – this really is the ultimate Friday night movie night sharing snack. It’s so quick and easy to make that even the kids can help! We’ve teamed up with Butterkist, the nation’s favourite popcorn brand, to jazz up a bag of their delicious Sweet Cinema Style …
