cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
This recipe was given to me years ago by a dear friend and mother of 4 who is well experienced with feeding a large family on a budget. It makes a perfect side dish for a summer barbecue and is a handy dish to bring along to a gathering of friends when you know there …
My eldest son attends a fantastic after school youth club one day per week. Since it’s right after school and the members are a group of pre-teens/teenagers they are absolutely starving! So, each person brings in a small dish to share with the others.
Last Christmas I made a Gingerbread House for the first time, well, a Fair Isle knitting patterned Shetland Pepperkakehus to be specific. It was a massive thing which sat on the kitchen counter top for two weeks before the children gleefully smashed it to smithereens while eating bits and pieces off it on Christmas Day.
Pasta is remarkably versatile; it is amazing how much you can do with some flour and eggs. This is another of my favourite pasta recipes.
Liven up your homemade pesto with the addition of coarsely ground dried seaweed. Seaweed is known to have a multitude of health benefits and it contains a wide variety of trace minerals and nutrients.
I love hummus! Would you believe that when I was younger I only ever ate the shop-bought variety? It seemed far too exotic, when I was first living on my own, to make such a thing, but then I discovered that it only takes 5 minutes to prepare from start to finish.
This week is Farmhouse Breakfast Week, “an annual celebration championing the importance of breakfast which aims to get the nation to Shake Up Their Wake Up!” It is designed to raise awareness of the importance of breakfast and to encourage people to regularly eat a healthy breakfast.
Sunday mornings are our family outdoor walk days. It’s cold in Shetland on a January morning, so I thought I’d whip up something with a bit of kick to help warm us from the inside when we’re out.
This soup recipe is adapted from one found in Alfred Vogel’s Naturally Fresh & Delicious recipe book.
The OH has decided that we should spend quality time together as family by scheduling in a family walk every Sunday. As a child growing up in Norway he was dragged out, reluctantly (he says), every Sunday and he thinks it’ll do the children good to have the same experience.
This recipe is the first vegan baking recipe I ever developed. I remember making it around 15 years ago for a vegan restaurant-owning friend of mine, much to his delight.
Last night I was in the mood for chocolate. We’re talking serious chocolate indulgence here. I had a rummage around the cupboard and found a bar of sugar free Plamil chocolate I’d bought back in November 2012 when I was on a sugar-free kick
We had a new neighbour move in next door to us early in 2012. He’s an elderly ex-whaler with a passion for trout fishing. Within the span of a week, during the summer, he’d brought to us no fewer than 24 trout!
At the start of Autumn I bought a local lamb for the winter freezer. (Cost £30). With the unpredictable weather we can get in the winter cutting off our lifeline service to the mainland it’s always a good plan to stock up a deep freeze. There have been times I’ve been to the local shop …
Khobz, alternatively transliterated as khoubz, khobez, khubez, or khubooz, is the usual word for “bread” in Standard Arabic and in many of the vernaculars. It is a staple of any Middle Eastern-inspired meal at my table. Prep Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 4 minutes Difficulty: Easy The first time I learned of khobz was while …
I recently borrowed a copy of Sally Butcher’s Veggiestan: a vegetable lover’s tour of the middle east and fell in love with it. It’s full of so many amazing recipes I am going to have to buy a copy of my very own.
Imam biyaldi is a Turkish recipe for aubergines stuffed with onions, garlic, tomato and spices cooked in olive oil. This is my version of the recipe, as served to Shetland Wool Adventures tour guests over the summers of 2024 and 2025. Prep Time: 30 minutes Cooking Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Easy This is my version …
It wasn’t until I was in my very late teens/early 20s that I discovered the wonderful world of bagels. I was working in a small family-owned shop in Halifax, Nova Scotia and just down the road from the shop was a fabulously quaint coffee shop called Mr. Bean’s Cafe. They sold all sorts of specialty teas and …
New Years’ Resolution #1: I am not going to eat so many sweet, fattening things in 2013. I’m not.
There are times when one needs a proper rich, fat filled, carbohydrate packed feast. If the middle of a winter with very little daylight isn’t one of those times, I don’t know what is.
