Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
Much easier than it looked, I think I’m now hooked on cooking in the bag. This time round, I bought Maggi So Juicy to try it, but after seeing it is a Nestle product and knowing the boycott around them for the advertising campaigns at mothers in third world countries to get them to buy [...]
So refreshing and even tempts my little one to drink some goodness in a glass. He likes it to come out a bit like how Costco smoothies do, and I think McDonalds do a fruit smoothie with mango and one with strawberry and banana that seems to be getting more popular with kids nowadays. [...]
Although we can create steaming recipes which also include meat, poultry and fish, I am going to concentrate on vegetables for this post. It has taken me a long time to be convinced of the goodness that steaming vegetables gives. We can steam in our microwaves, in our specialised pots, or with our stand alone [...]
Haddock is a pretty reliable and easy fish to work with. It would have been the dish that my grandparents and their parents mostly lived on as they grew up. As versatile as it is, a fish pie is really an easy option to make with it. I swithered between a fish pie and fishcakes, [...]
Waking up coughing, I looked on as the door of my bedroom opened and the most gorgeous man I have ever seen in my life walked in through the door. Dressed all in his fireman togs, I was then completely unaware of the rancid black smoke that wafted around him. The hero of my ten-year [...]
My favourite online butcher, Andrew Gordon Butchery and Fine Foods has taken in some wonderfully unusual meat for burger making. He now frequently has Kangaroo, Waygu, Buffalo and Zebra burgers, as well as a few Springbok ones in stock. I was in past and came away with some Kangaroo and Buffalo burgers. The man [...]
Making a prawn cocktail is something that the man of the house does quite often. We had king prawns to hand and since we are doing the Healthy Hearts campaign with Fish is the Dish, it seemed a good idea to make a King Prawn Cocktail in the old-fashioned way. We don’t use Worcester [...]
One of the pieces of equipment that does live in a drawer in our house and gets used fairly frequently with growing boys is our panini press. We tend to get our chicken from our local butcher Andrew Gordon Butchery and Fine Foods nowadays, so I know it’s all good stuff. I buy the lighter [...]
Roasted Rainbow Trout was a mixed bag for us. More commonly known as Baked Trout, it’s actually so simple that any recipe can be used for it. All we are doing is taking the rainbow trout and baking it whole in the oven. I flavour with lemon and parsley on top of salt and [...]
Scotty Brand were kind enough to send us some of their newly available Scottish Coleslaw and Scottish Potato Salad. We buy a lot of coleslaw as it’s just so much easier than making it, but I find many potato salads very vinegary and tend not to buy them. Scotty Brand potato salad was [...]
We took a day trip from the East Coast Scotland at Dornoch, over to the West Coast at Ullapool for a day trip. It took a little longer than expected to get there given that the trip really included a fair hike across some nice high hills. With a rather big 4 x 4, hills [...]
While up visiting Dornoch and the local area, we decided to pop in for an evening meal at the St Duthus Hotel in Tain. If I had to rate the restaurant on effort, decor and friendliness of staff, it would be a five-star all round from the Scottish Mum family. As it was, the food [...]
