A Scot Living in Switzerland Writing About Food and Life in General
{ Category Archives }
This Nigel Slater recipe came from his show called a Taste of My Life.
I’ve been looking for a more authentic recipe to try and since my son adores pasta I thought this would be ideal for a nice relaxing family meal.
I was right, clean plates all round! It was delicious, rich and filling, perfect!
This recipe comes from the New Covent Garden Soup Company’s - Soup & Beyond book. I can really recommend the Covent Garden cookbooks as I have a couple and so far all the recipes I’ve tried have always been delicious. They saved my bacon on Christmas Day when I had a soup disaster and found I had all the ingredients for the Lentil and Bacon soup in the cupboard!!
Anyway, back to the risotto. We were shopping at a local farm last weekend, at this time of year the local produce is amazing and they had some really great looking green and yellow courgettes so we bought a load and then weren’t sure what to make with them. Mid week Stewart was looking through the cookbooks trying to find inspiration and the Covent Garden book fell open at this page and he decided to test it out. It was simply divine! Really tasty! Matthew loved it too as he had a little bit for lunch the next day!
I really adore Spaghetti Carbonara and it’s one of Stewart’s favourite’s too! We’ve been looking for a simple and authentic recipe for a while and this one ticked all the boxes.
This recipe comes courtesy of Nigella Lawson’s Feast.
We tried this recipe for the first time a few weeks ago, it was featured on Saturday Kitchen broadcast on BBC1. It takes a little bit of time but it is a really tasty.
It’s wonderful to be back in the world of blogging!! My first recipe is a nice and simple affair.
This recipe was featured on BBC2’s show Something For The Weekend by Simon Rimmer and was first broadcast on Sunday 8th June.
New Years Eve or Hogmanay as it’s known in Scotland is bursting with traditions such as the customary “First Foot”. As the clock strikes midnight there is a chorus of “Auld Lang Syne and then comes the “First Food”. “The “first foot” is the first person to cross the threshold into a house after the chimes of midnight. Usually the “first foot” brings gifts of salt, coal, bread or shortbread and whiskey and if it’s a tall dark stranger then that’s good luck. ”
I always loved New Years Eve when I was growing up in Scotland, it was so exciting as a child going out to visit family in the middle of the night!
On New Years Day every year we’d go to my grandmother’s house and tuck into a big hearty plate of steak pie without it New Years Day just isn’t the same. In accordance with this I decided to make a steak pie for us to enjoy this year on New Years Day, this is my recipe..
Let me first begin by wishing everyone a belated Merry Christmas!!! I hope you all had a wonderful time over the festive period. Ours was special this year since it was our son’s very first Christmas. My uncle joined us from Scotland for the holidays so it was truly a family event.
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in our house without roast turkey and the trimmings, so that is exactly what we had. This is how the main course looked but I’ve included the recipe for the soup and the main course below.
For my birthday this year I got three new cookbooks, Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson, Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes and Jamie Oliver’s new book Jamie At Home. As anyone who has frequented this site will know I’m a very big fan of Jamie O and it was merely a matter of time before I featured a recipe from Jamie At Home.
This recipe is definitely one I wish I had last summer as we had a glut of tomatoes grown on the balcony and this would have been perfect.
This zingy little number really pepped up my Sunday afternoon. Cobbled together in the same time as it took to prepare the spaghetti, that’s definitely what I call fast food! See what you think.
Last night I was watching the new series from Nigella Lawson called Nigella Express. As you would expect from the title it’s about cooking great tasting food with minimal effort and time. The episode I watched showed Nigella’s take on an Alsacian classic, “Coq Au Riesling”. Living in here in Basel on the doorstep of Alsace good Alsacian wine is not difficult to come by so I decided I’d put Nigella’s claims to the test. So here it is..
