Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Scotty Brand sent us some lovely Kestrel potatoes before Christmas. They are fabulous for using for lots of potato things, boiling, baking or roasting. Mashing is just one of the ways that they can be used really well. Potatoes are really quite good for us. I read a lot of negativity around root vegetables, and [...]
A delivery of Scotty Brand raspberries arrived and the raspberry making machine had to begin turning it’s wheel. With some sponge cake left over from another day, I decided to make a lovely little glass of fast and delicious raspberry trifle. The raspberry cheesecake from the Scotty Brand website looks amazing, and I think I [...]
Sometimes, I think we overthink our cooking. What’s wrong with some plain and simple boiled new potatoes, served with some sour cream and a topping of parsley like my grandmother would make. This is just so simple to make and the sour cream tastes lovely over the newly cooked spuds. Follow Scotty Brand on Facebook [...]
This is a lush carrot cake and sooo easy to make. I made this using the carrots we were so kindly given from Scotty Brand. I used small loaf tins. Yield – up to 6 small tins. Ingredients 4 oz castor sugar 4 oz demerara or brown sugar 8 oz butter 8 oz self-raising flour, [...]
Our delivery of strawberries arrived, and two boxes were eaten almost immediately by children who ate them like sweeties. They were so sweet and juicy that I was reminded of the strawberries we used to get as kids. Our challenge came via this adorable recipe from Scotty Brand for cheesecake pots. You can download the [...]
My two favourite produce providers are the reason for the fabulously speedy wolfing down of Spaghetti Bolognese for our evening meal. It’s amazing how much difference the taste of good meat and vegetables makes to the enjoyment of what we eat. The same Scotty Brand carrots used to make the Carrot and Orange Soup, added [...]
As a Scotty Brand Blogger, I am loving the boxes of goodies arriving with instructions on how to make something that I haven’t made before. This week, the challenge was to make Carrot and Orange soup, which I managed quite easily. I had a couple of packs of carrots torn open and being chopped within [...]
We received our package of potatoes from Scotty Brand just before we headed up to the top of Scotland with our caravan. Sending a pack by way of my brother and his wife, I took 3 bags of their lovely potatoes with us. We had a couple of baked potato meals, that I didn’t [...]
