Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
Using roasting bags is a relatively new find to me. I’ve usually roasted in tin foil, but have found that roasting in a bag actually gives me a much better texture and taste. It actually doesn’t look like much on a plate, but it tasted absolutely heavenly. I’m not quite sure how else I would [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Winner Graeme McMillan announced via Rafflecopter. This is a fabulous opportunity to get away from the processed food that we really seem to be mistrusting as a nation these past few weeks. With the advent of the horse meat scandal, we seem to be enjoying a return to real meat from real butchers in the [...]
My challenge for a lot of this year is to find ways to make quality meat affordable and a good purchase for everyone. Bearing in mind that my family would wolf down a big pack of chicken nuggets in one go, it would work out about a fiver a meal just for those, which is [...]
In Scotland, we all know it’s the birthday of the Bard coming up. If you don’t know who – it’s Rabbie Burns, and we celebrate it on the 25th January every year, so Friday night will be haggis night in many households around the world. Robert Burns was a poet who is now looked [...]
Chicken pie recipes are as many and varied as there are hot dinners in the year. I wanted to have something no fuss, with full flavour, and easy to make. Puff pastry is the one pastry that I cheat with. It is such a faff to work with, that I always have some on standby [...]
What better cold weather fare could there be. Stovies used to be made in generations gone by in our ancestors family when it was washing day, or when the nets had to be hauled down to the boats and the women didn’t have time to make a big meal for the family. They stayed [...]
We took home a lovely piece of meat from Andrew Gordon Butchery and Fine Foods and had a lovely and luxurious meal fit for a King and Queen. Questions that people often ask are around how to roast a joint of meat, or how to cook roast beef properly so I thought I’d write it down. [...]
I’ve been getting my meat from a local butcher recently, Andrew Gordon Butchery and Fine Foods in Aberdeen. For the steak and potato hotpot recipe, I’ve used his Diced Steak (Round Steak) from the Aberdeen Angus cattle that his meat comes from. We really like the rich meaty taste of the Aberdeen Angus, so I [...]
A simple and quite easy main meal to make, but be warned, it does have a bit of a kick in the rice. If you are slightly worried by spicy food, simply leave out the chilli and use some herbs or fruit instead. The Greek Chicken for this dish was provided by Andrew Gordon Butchery [...]
