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Salted Caramel Fudge
Salted Caramel Fudge Recipe Salted caramel fudge is an irresistible classic that has been delighting families for generations. This traditional recipe uses sweetened condensed milk to create a creamy and indulgent treat that is sure to become a family favourite. With just a few simple ingredients, you can easily make your own delicious salted caramel […]
Creamy Roasted Garlic & Chicken Fettuccine
Creamy Roasted Garlic & Chicken Fettuccine Recipe We had the first glittering scattering of snow here in Scotland on Sunday! I always say the first snow falls at the end of November, and this year was no different. So in honour of such a cold, yet beautiful day, I decided to make my thoroughly indulgent, […]
Proper Garlic Bread (with roasted garlic)
Proper Garlic Bread Spaghetti is a regular feature on our weekly meal plan, and as we all know – you can’t have spaghetti bolognese without garlic bread! However, we don’t just do any old plain and boring toast. In our house, we make proper garlic bread! This proper garlic bread is for people who don’t […]
Creamy Chicken One-Pot with Spinach and Broccolini
Creamy Chicken One-Pot with Spinach and Brocollini Recipe The weather has been strange here in Scotland, making deciding what to cook each day that much more difficult. The mornings are brisk and chill, whereas it warms up throughout the day to something rather uncomfortable. I like to think it’s Scotland’s last attempt at Summer! But […]
Lemon Drizzle Cake
Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe I’m not the biggest fan of sweets – never have been, and never will be. But when offered a slice of lemon drizzle cake? Or any lemony delight for that matter, I’m completely won over. To me, the blend of sweet and bitter come together perfectly in cakes such as this […]
Cauliflower Cheese
Cauliflower Cheese Recipe Here in Scotland, a Sunday roast isn’t just roast totties and parsnips. In fact, the British love to indulge in various side dishes when it comes to a roast dinner, much more so than we do back home in Australia. And one of the side dishes that I have come to love […]
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream (no churn)
No Churn Homemade Vanilla Icecream Recipe To me, buying ice cream is a risky business. Especially vanilla ice cream. Will it have a nice rich flavour and texture? Or will it be bland, flavourless, and icy? It’s a big risk and when you look at the price of a tub of ice cream, a risk […]
Braised Lamb Shanks with Red Wine
There is nothing I love more, than slow-cooked, melt in your mouth, kinda meals. And these braised lamb shanks, cooked slow and low in a red wine gravy, are just that. Rather than on the hob, I cook these in a cast iron casserole pot in the oven for a few hours over a very […]
Honey Roasted Carrots
I think we can all agree that sometimes a Sunday roast can start to feel a little same-ish. And sometimes you simply need something a little bit different to bring back the excitement of the roast dinner. And that’s exactly what I’ve done with these simple, but delicious, honey roasted carrots. This honey roasted carrot recipe […]
Black Pudding & Blue Cheese Salad
Black Pudding & Blue Cheese Salad Recipe There’s no secret to how much I love salad, but in the depths of winter, a typical cold salad just doesn’t cut it. However, add some fried bacon lardons, crumbled black pudding, and rich blue cheese? Well, then you’re onto a winter winner. And given the amount of […]
Traditional Scottish Shortbread
Traditional Scottish Shortbread Recipe Although I was born in Australia and grew up in Sydney, my family has always had strong ties to Scotland. In fact, my Grandmother was born in Scotland (Stirling to be precise), and so needless to say, Scottish culture has always been a part of everyday life in my childhood home. […]
Spicy Chorizo Pigs in Blankets with Sweet Chilli Glaze
Spicy Chorizo Pigs in Blankets with Sweet Chilli Glaze Recipe Here in the UK, it’s not Christmas dinner without pigs in blankets! The bacon-wrapped chipolatas are a Christmas day must-have, and it seems almost sacrilegious to eat them at any other time through the year. Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of store-bought pigs in […]
Proper Hot Chocolate
Proper Hot Chocolate Recipe Each year in the lead up to Christmas, I indulge my sweet tooth and try out every seasonal hot chocolate I can find. I love cosy-ing up in cafes big and small, trying out different hot chocolates with different toppings. However, this year that’s not been an option so instead I’ve […]
Gingerbread Cookies
Total time: 1 hour.
Curry Beef Pie
Curry Beef Pie Recipe If Australian cuisine is known for anything, it’s the good ol’ Aussie meat pie. Australians love pie in all its forms, and I was surprised to find that here in the UK they’re just not as common (or readily available) as they are back home in Australia. And so I make […]
Hearty Vegetable Soup
Cooking time: 2 hours
Carrot & Swede Mash
Carrot & Swede Mash
Bacon Stuffing
Bacon & Onion Stuffing Recipe I love Christmas. Adore it completely. In fact, Christmas is one of the reasons I left Australia and moved to Scotland! After all, Christmas is all about celebrating winter, with comforting food, knitted sweaters, and plenty of friends and family. And of course – the Christmas roast dinner. I have […]
The Best Easy Flapjacks
Flapjacks Recipe When Scottish immigrants relocated to Australia many many decades ago, they, of course, took with them their recipes. I was recently chatting Scottish recipes with a good friend of mine, who noted that the Scottish flapjack was likely the progenitor of the Anzac biscuit! This, of course, inspired me to make this recipe […]
Bacon & Egg Breakfast Muffins
Bacon & Egg Breakfast Muffins Recipe If there was one thing I learned growing up in a large family, with many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles, it’s that breakfast for the masses can be a centre of chaos. Being a person drawn to organisation, and keeping things as sane and as rational as possible, […]
Homemade Spreadable Compound Butter: Thyme & Onion
Homemade Spreadable Thyme & Onion Compound Butter Recipe One of my earliest cooking memories was making garlic bread for the family. Every Tuesday night, my mother would make Spaghetti Bolognese, and of course, garlic bread was a necessity! Every now and then, however, we would have herb and onion bread – deliciously sweet from the […]
Venison Sausage and Black Pudding Tray Bake
Venison Sausage & Black Pudding Tray Bake Recipe Summer in Scotland is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it season. Even now, mid-August, when I look out the window I see grey clouds hanging heavy across the mountains, and can smell rain on the chill air. This means that summer cooking doesn’t get much attention from our kitchen, and I’m […]
Salted Caramel Cashews
Salted Caramel Cashews Recipe It may be the middle of July, but this recipe is inspired by the Christmastimes of my youth. Growing up, each Christmas morning we would awake to an array of fresh fruit and nuts on the table – perfect for young children too distracted by Santa. Of this spread, my favourite […]
10-Minute Lime Chilli Roasted Almonds
10-Minute Lime Chilli Roasted Almonds Recipe I have a confession to make – I’m a grazer. As much as I love sitting down to a big bowl of pasta or soup, I tend to graze throughout the day. Especially busy days when I don’t have the luxury to sit down to eat! My snack food […]
30-Minute Paneer Tikka Masala
Paneer Tikka Masala Recipe Tikka masala is hands down one of my favourite curries, however I had never tried it until I moved to the UK! Tikka Masala is a spicy, creamy and tomato rich curry typically made with Chicken. However, I like to mix things up a little and use paneer – a gorgeously […]
Beer-Battered Fish with Minted Mushy Peas
Today we have another British classic – beer-battered fish and chips with mushy peas. Given we haven’t been able to visit our favourite pub this year, despite this beautiful weather, I decided this week to bring a little bit of pub grub to us. We grabbed a few beers, and then ate our fish and […]
“Better than the Chippy” Chicken Pakora
Chicken Pakora You can’t deny how amazing deep-fried chicken is when variations appear in different cuisines all around the world. In America you have plain ol’ fried chicken, in Japan you have Karaage, and in India there’s Pakora. In Scotland, chicken pakora has been embraced passionately by the locals, so much so it’s available at […]
Kale & Bacon Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
Kale & Bacon Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing A few evenings ago, I was curled up on the sofa watching reruns of Nigella Bites. Now, I am sure I have confessed this a dozen of times over, but I simply adore Nigella Lawson’s cooking programs. They were my first introduction to many classic British foods! […]
Haggis Bon Bons
Haggis Bon Bons
Potato Hash with Chorizo
Jazz up your every day potato hash with chorizo and red peppers! Add a little spice to your life and try this brilliant brunch today.