Taste of Glasgow

Well we couldn’t let Pancake Day (aka Shrove Tuesday) go by without giving you a good old recipe for some Scotch pancakes. Apparently, in most traditions the day is known for the eating of pancakes before the start of Lent. Pancakes are eaten because they are made out of the main foods available, sugar, fat, [...]

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Porridge is such a delicious and easy dish to make. This recipe is ideal if you find yourself running around in the morning – too busy to sit down and have that all important first meal of the day. And the good news is that it really is very good for you. Claims for porridge [...]

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The recipe is inspired mostly by Levi Roots’ recipe for ginger cake, but as always I’ve made a few tweaks after baking it several times over the last year while still keeping it easy peasy, my favourite type of baking.

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Nothing says Christmas more that a glass or two of the hot red stuff and so for the last few years on Christmas Eve this is an easy little drink that I rustle up in the kitchen just before I am about to settle down and watch some festive movies.  It’ll take less than 10 [...]

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As some of you know I had the delights of coming up with a recipe for the little beetroots that arrived in my organic veg box recently. Thanks to the help of many of you, you did clarify they were indeed beetroots otherwise this might have been a whole different recipe.  After a little online [...]

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This is a must have hearty winter warmer that was inspired by the cauliflower that was delivered in this week’s organic veg box and some online surfing for cauliflower recipes.  So taking the favourite bits of the recipes I read I concocted this spicy soup. It may sound like an odd combination but it is [...]

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