Taste of Glasgow

  You know there isn’t much wrong with the world when you can sit down to a big plate of Italian meatballs! This recipe takes full advantage of slow cooking and is a real winner. I am sure there must be some Italian blood in me because I bet this is as good as any [...]

Pork cheek is a brilliant and extremely cheap cut of meat which, when braised like this, is meltingly tender and falls apart with the touch of fork.  It can be difficult to get but any good butcher or even your supermarket will order some in for you if you ask in advance.  The braised pork [...]

This pasta dish will take you only about 15 minutes to make and because you can blitz everything in a food processor there is very little preparation to do so is an ideal dish to make after that long day at work. 4 spring onions 1 carrot pinch of chili flakes 1 pack of 6 [...]

Having spent most of my Saturday shopping the time had flown quite effortlessly until my stomach finally started to moan about why it was 3 o’clock and I had not yet had any lunch.  Given that I knew there was no food in the flat I decided to  satisfy the tummy monster by paying a [...]

Soup making time again and this week I have gone for a hearty number, which will make you warm and nicely full on an autumn afternoon. Ingredients 1 onion chopped 100g of chorizo chopped 1 tsp of dried rosemary 4 garlic gloves (chopped/bashed) 750g of passata 2.5 pints of organic chicken stock 1 x 400g [...]

I often find myself experimenting or improvising in the kitchen. Today, my mission was to only use what was already in the kitchen pantry, fridge/freezer or growing in my wee herb garden. This recipe features orzo, which is like a rice-shaped pasta. I normally cook it as-is, or incorporate it into soups. In this instance, [...]