Over the summer Border Biscuits (aye them that does THE BEST biscuits) and Asda launched the Big Baking Bonanza to search for the best British biscuit recipe. Essentially, novice and amateur bakers up and down the country were invited to submit their best recipe in the hopes of winning £2000, a place on a baking […]
Roast Cauliflower & Mushroom Carbonara
If vegetables were to be given sex appeal then humble cauliflower would surely be at the bottom of the list. If asparagus is the Johnny Depp of the veggie world then cauliflower is the Jeremy Clarkson (sorry Jeremy). No matter how organic it is, how healthy experts claim it to be or how you cook or prepare it, […]
Mussels + Focaccia
Summer dinner parties can be a tough one to pull off. In these balmy summer evenings I would much rather tend to a bottle of chilled Pinot when entertaining friends rather than slave over a hot stove. As Sandy & Danny sang, these summer days are drifting away and when it comes to dinner parties, […]
A Weegie in the East Neuk of Fife.
Let’s talk Stay-cations. As we all know the student life can be a skint one. This means we have to be a little more creative and thrifty with our extra-curricular activities and holidays are no exception. With 1 year left on my PhD, my holidays have had a make-do-and-mend theme to them. This is fine because if you […]
10 Photography Tips for Food Blogging
I’ve been blogging for almost 2 years now. While I still consider myself a newbie in terms of blog growth and what I still need to learn, the amount I have learned is extraordinary. No one teaches you how to blog, you literally throw yourself in at the deep end & figure it out as you go. This means […]
Pimms Iced Tea
Lets slow things down a bit. It’s summer after all and really, who can be bothered with cooking? In those heady summery nights when I’m wearing linen trousers, watering my mini garden and bopping along to Len’s ‘Steal My Sunshine’ I struggle to find the motivation to cook. Heck I sometimes struggle to find the motivation to […]
Energy Granola Bars
Over here at Weegie Kitchen headquarters I’m chuffed to bits to bring an honorary Weegie into the fold. Everyone wave hullo to the lovely Lisa Palompo Dixon from Palompo PR! Lisa is a Mum of two, a keen cook and a Scottish PR who helps brilliant brands grow. You can also catch up on her […]
Homemade Pizza
Last week in my What’s Hot & What’s Not post I waxed lyrical about the perceived hassle a home-made pizza brings to your life. I was wrong. So wrong in fact I tried it again at the weekend with relative ease. However if you want to remove the hassle from cooking you also have to relinquish […]
A to Z of Ingredients: Maldon Salt – Rapeseed Oil
Take a sneak peek inside my Weegie kitchen with the continued A-Z of my favourite ingredients. Previous posts include: Ginger to Lemons & Limes and Almonds to Fresh Pasta. M = Maldon Salt You would be forgiven for overlooking the importance of salt when it comes to cooking or indeed appreciating the variation on […]
Salmon & Watercress Tart
The changing of the seasons can always be forecast in my kitchen with the introduction of seafood and greens at teatime. This, of course, is not the kind of food I want during autumn and winter because that is the time for gorging on stews, pies, soups and crumbles with the same determination as a […]