I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland and like everyone else around me I absolutely love a bacon and scone roll in the morning. Now that doesn’t seem like a hugely political statement, but trust me, as you are reading this, some folk are scoffing at their computer screens because I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eli & I eat quite a bit of squash as she’s a bit of a squash fiend, and this time of year is perfect with all the different types of squash available to cook with. Like most folk, we tend to cook with butternut squash, making soups and pastas mostly […]
Snickerdoodles are soft, sugar cookies which are crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside and dusted with cinnamon. No one is sure where the name snicker doodle came from, some saying it’s German, some saying Dutch. Others say it’s just a whimsical name from the New […]
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?
