We’re on a tighter budget for Christmas this year, thanks to the combination of a poor season for vegetables, reduced sales of pork and pigs and a second static year for the Other Half’s salary coinciding with much higher prices for just about everything. It means we can’t afford the same quality and quantity of [...]
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Baked eggs
12 November, 2011
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Saturdays mean cooked breakfasts on the croft. Today was no different, well, except that I made baked eggs, an egg dish I’ve not come across in the UK and the Other Half has not eaten before. (Don’t ask why I haven’t made it for her before, I just haven’t.) It’s far more elegant and sophisticated [...]
Read more Don’t eat the cabbage!
24 October, 2011
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We’re into the time of year where we get to eat some of our favourite dishes with one of our favourite vegetables—cabbage. This evening, I went out to the vegetable and cut three cabbages for tea. I had to cut that many as the poor season meant none had hearted as well as the one [...]
Read more A taste of the exotic
23 October, 2011
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In the main, we eat what could be called traditional British food with a few Australian influences. It’s not a choice dictated by taste or fashion, but by our reliance on foods that can be produced in north-east Scotland. We do buy some ingredients from further afield, but our staples are pork, chicken, trout, mackerel, [...]
Read more Just a trifle
14 October, 2011
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I asked the Other Half if she’d mind having my Ultimate Chocolate Trifle for her birthday instead of a cake. Her reply? Something along the lines of “mmmmm!” I took it as yes and made this, with layers of amaretti, rum, chocolate custard, cherries, pears and cream, repeated. She’s currently enjoying some of the leftovers [...]
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