I don’t think it’s possible for any child growing up in Scotland to not have encountered shortbread usually over Christmas and New Year. It seems like everyone has an auntie with a perfect recipe and every household drags out a tin […]
A good while ago now, I promised Kate’s mum that she could have my meringue recipe and I completely forgot to give her it. I remembered today as I was making meringues (purely to test out the new food processor) and so thought I should blog it so that she […]
This is not for the calorie conscious… You have been warned. Kate and I are doughnut fans. Kate is a sucker for a good raspberry jam filled one and due to my time in New York, I am a fan of a brand called Krispy Kreme. The only problem with […]
We have waited what seems like forever for the chance to make this dish with our own home-grown beetroot. We first ate it at our friends Hayley and Luke’s (the American) house for Thanksgiving last year and that was the moment we first got the bug for growing our own […]
I’ve always looked at folk who bake bread as some sort of evil geniuses who have this amazing secret that makes them somehow better than everyone else. Well all it took was a little courage and the acceptance that getting it wrong wasn’t the end of the world and finally […]
Curry is a generic western term for a dish comprising of a sauce made with a complex mix of herbs and spices which originates from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southeast Asian cuisines.The word curry itself is a bit of a mystery but we think it could […]
We are Kate & Eli, a middle-aged a Scottish couple sharing our adventures in growing veggies, fruit and flowers. We started in 2012 and have learned so much, so we thought, why not share?
