Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
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As discussed before, The Healthy Happy Hearts Campaign runs for a 6 weeks spell to introduce families into eating more fish, more regularly. I agreed to be up to the challenge of eating two portions of fish a week with my family for 6 weeks. Fish is the Dish sent us enough fish for the [...]
I hadn’t made cranachan for years, but a sleepover for a child who wanted something sweet brought this out as I had the ingredients for it. I missed out the whisky on the kids portions, but perhaps I should have added it, as we might have got more sleep !! It’s traditional, it’s Scottish and [...]
Filling peppers is a very cheap and tasty way to fill bellies. There is no limit to the amount of combinations that can be filled and roasted. Add some lovely side salad and eggs, and the plate looks lovely. Related Posts:Roasted Stuffed Peppers – Onion, Mushroom and Cheddar Cheese, Served with Quails Eggs and Salad
Just by choosing to eat some cheap ingredients, it doesn’t mean that we have to eat tasteless and horribly boring food. Cheap ingredients mixed with slightly more expensive ones can make us some fantastically wonderful meal options if they are combined in the right proportions. As a family, we tend to eat much of the [...]
I grew up with fish from an early age as I lived in a fishing community. Up until my own parents generation, all my ancestors were into food farming of one kind or another. On my grandmothers side, it was fishing and on my grandfathers side it was farming, although he left the industry as [...]
Littlest came home with the instructions to make a fair trade recipe and have it typed up, cooked at home and to take a photograph to school of them making the said item. Needless to say I had one night warning, so it was off to the local Co-op to see what they had in [...]
The shelf life of food is very important, but it’s even more important that we actually know what the different terms actually mean. When we deal with fresh foods like meat, fish and poultry, we really need to look at the processes and our handling of it when we get it home. Vegetables are a [...]
Freezing a larger batch is the easiest way to spin out our food and make it last, but not everything freezes nor defrosts well. Dairy Most dairy products will struggle to defrost well. I find that cream will separate and can spoil any food that it is combined with prior to freezing. I have [...]
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 [...]
From the mango chicken I made in my first post about ekeing out quality meat, the second half of the batch went straight into being a Chicken and Mango Tikka Masala. I think the very real after effect of the horsemeat scandal is that we really don’t know what’s in processed food, even if it [...]
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 [...]
With lots of jokes about the horse meat issue facing many of the suppliers of meat in our country, I’ve found myself mentally checking off the Dalepack, Findus, Tesco, Lidl and Aldi brands of any sort of meat. I know that is actually completely ridiculous, but how many people feel the same way as I [...]
