A Spooktacular Halloween Feast!
I have a confession to make: I absolutely love Halloween. I love Halloween a bit more than a grown adult should love Halloween.
Green Tomato Relish Recipe (Chow Chow)
A gorgeous and vibrant spiced mustard relish made with green tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, cauliflower, celery and onions. My mother used to make this recipe when I was a child growing up in Cape Breton. Prep Time: 2 hours Cooking Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Moderate Green tomatoes, can you eat them? Green tomatoes are not something …
Pumpkin Loaf
Nearly twenty years ago I sat at my grandmother’s dining room table in rural Eastern Canada scoffing slabs of home made pumpkin bread thick with butter and chatting about this, that and the other thing, as granddaughters are wont to do with their grandmothers.
Honey-Caramelised Figs with Cinnamon & Natural Yogurt
Here you have it: my new favourite breakfast. I’m fairly new to the whole eating-of-the-fresh-figs thing, being introduced to them only this year after I saw so many of my fellow food bloggers raving about them.
A Canadian Thanksgiving with Martin Miller’s Gin
It’s been nearly fifteen years since I packed that big green Army Surplus rucksack with all my worldly possessions and moved thousands of miles across the pond from my home on the East Coast of Canada to new beginnings on a remote archipelago in the North Sea.
The Easiest Spiced Cranberry Sauce Recipe
This is the easiest spiced cranberry sauce recipe. Just throw the seven ingredients into a saucepan, simmer for 10 minutes, chill, and serve! Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes Difficulty: Easy I love cranberry sauce. A Thanksgiving or Christmas meal isn’t complete without it, in my opinion. Cranberry sauce is the accompaniment which …
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
One of my favourite meals growing up was spaghetti with a jar of Ragu sauce poured over the top. I could never get enough of it. To me that dish represents the ultimate in comfort food, and I am known still, as an adult, to eat it on occasion.
Vampire Lady Fingers
Halloween was A Big Thing where I grew up in rural Canada. During the entire month of October village gardens and windows would be adorned with Halloween and Autumn themed decorations.
Great Homemade Soups: A Cook’s Collection
“Soups are so versatile that there is one to match your mood and appetite whatever the meal and whatever the season”
Bear Paws (Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies)
Soft spiced molasses cookies; ideal for when you’re going on an adventure! When I was a girl growing up in rural Canada I used to bake an old fashioned soft molasses cookie recipe. I don’t know where the original recipe came from, being handed down from somewhere, but these cookies were one of my favourites.
Stir-fried Kale with Garlic and Chilli Oil
I’m a newcomer to the whole kale thing. Following on from a suggestion by a vegan friend who is in love with the stuff, I did, once, some time ago, pick up a bag of curly kale from a local supermarket and I baked it to make kale chips.
Roast Harlequin Squash, Cauliflower and Mature Cheddar Soup
I do not have green fingers. I could not be called a gardener in any sense of the word. I do have some houseplants, which, for some reason, have evolved to be very hardy plants indeed, able to withstand weeks of drought in between the times when I actually remember to water them. How they …
Book Review: Pie – Dean Brettschneider
“Cooking is an art and baking is a science – making pies a combination of both” Who can resist a cook with a title and cover like this? I know one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but as soon as I saw the cover of this book I was instantly salivating and …
Chocolate Coffee Cupcakes with Coffee Buttercream Frosting
It’s National Cupcake Week! Well, it’s the last day of National Cupcake Week, but better late than never, right?
Shetland Black Potato & Fennel Gratin
A perfect, creamy heritage potato accompaniment for roast Shetland lamb. September in Shetland, my remote archipelago home in the North Sea, means the return of many things. The winter gales, for starters, blowing away any remnants of summer one might have forgotten in the garden.
Spiced Tomato and Courgette Chutney
Love homemade chutneys? Try making this spiced courgette chutney using ripe cherry tomatoes and fresh spices. It’s a delicious autumn treat perfect with a ploughman’s lunch. Prep Time: 30 minutes Cooking Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Easy I have fond memories of home-made jams and preserves from my Canadian childhood. Alas, preserving is not something I’ve …
Chocolate Courgette Cake
The fantastic chocolatey food blogging challenge, We Should Cocoa, hosted by Choclette over at Chocolate Log Blog and co-created by Chele from The Chocolate Teapot (who has sadly retired from blogging) is three years old this month!
Apple Cardamom Cake with Quince Frosting
Deliciously autumnal, this cake is moist, aromatic and bursting with flavour. Autumn is definitely in the air. The nights are drawing in earlier and here in Shetland it’s been dark, dreary and raining for days.
Broad Bean & Courgette Salad
We have recently started receiving an organic vegetable box from a local supplier – Transition Turriefield, who grow all of their produce without the use of pesticides and agrochemicals.
No Churn Lemon Cheesecake Ice Cream
I spent a most wonderful child-free weekend in town. I don’t go into town very often, let alone for an overnight trip, but this weekend past I made an exception.