Recipes, food & cooking posts - page 11
31 July 2010
Of Ice Cream In Dumfries and Galloway
My blog posts about Dumfries and Galloway would not be complete without talking about Cream O'Galloway, an ice cream producer between Gatehouse of Fleet and Kirkcudbright. We seem to spend much of our family holiday centred around their farm at Rain...
Read more27 July 2010
Of Meat In Dumfries And Galloway
21/7/2010 - I am sitting here at a table overlooking a glorious lake; not some picture postcard view across Lake Como in brilliant sunshine, but a grey, overcast day with some low lying wispy clouds moving slowly across the conifer plantations opposi...
Read more08 July 2010
Recipe For Pomegranate Barbecue Sauce
We have been asked for some time whether we could source a pomegranate molasses and I am nearly there on that. One of our current suppliers, who is based in Beirut in the Lebanon, sent us a sample of Concentrated Pomegranate Juice which is the same...
Read more05 July 2010
June 2010 Food Blog Round Up
At Chocolate & Zucchini, there is a delicious sounding recipe for sablés from Yves Camdeborde's book Dimanche et Famille. Clotilde Dusolier's blog then sent me around various links on her site to several other biscuit recipes that sound fantasti...
Read more02 July 2010
Recipe - Chocolate And Nutella Tart
England's football team were abject last Sunday, but the Chocolate And Nutella Tart recipe from the French patisserie chef, Pierre Hermé, was the perfect compensation - sweet, rich and complex in taste that left you just wanting more. In one of my p...
Read more30 June 2010
Recipe For Sweet Pastry Per Pierre Hermé
Having been given a great sweet tart pastry recipe by Anthony Stern from Independent Foods, I have recently come across an even better Sweet Tart Dough in Pierre Hermé’s book “Chocolate Desserts”. I must admit to being given the heads up about the w...
Read more28 June 2010
Simple Burger Recipe - Part 1
Saturday, a cold Saturday a few weekends ago that felt like winter but was meant to be almost midsummer. It felt like a good day to start trying to find the Steenberg family's favourite burger recipe. We tried three recipes which we taste tested si...
Read more21 June 2010
Recipe - Sweet Barbecue Style Chicken Legs
We are always looking for ways to liven up chicken to feed the kids - simple, tasty and quick & easy family food. This recipe is something I devised for Sweet Barbecue Style Chicken Legs is so quick to make that our children both love to help to...
Read more09 June 2010
Recipe - French Tomato Tart
The other day my parents visited from Northumberland, and as it was a gorgeous sunny Thursday, I plucked up the courage to try one of David Lebovitz's recipes. It's always a matter of bravery as I am in awe at other people's ability to make seemingl...
Read more04 June 2010
May 2010 Food Blog Round Up
This month definitely has a seasonal theme of Spring to it. Everyone has recipes for rhubarb, all of which are so much more inspiring than the classic Rhubarb Crumble that I blogged about this month and the rhubarb compote that we have been living o...
Read more24 May 2010
Recipe For Pink Rose Macarons
Pink is one of those colours I have never really liked. However, getting married and then having a daughter have made me accept pink as a colour and slowly but surely start to like pink as long as it is subtle rather than Barbie coloured. Sophie ha...
Read more08 May 2010
Recipe For Rhubarb Crumble
Rhubarb is one of the first signs of the fruitfulness of the new season, and I really love rhubarb - we have always had lovely rhubarb at home. There's a Steenberg family story that our sweet rhubarb came from the Russian Royal family, however I per...
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