I’ve cooked and prepared food on many surfaces, from kitchen tables to griddle pans, stove tops and chopping boards to cool chilled marble so perfect for pastry. One thing I had never prepared/cooked any sort of food on was a salt block. For me salt has always been seen as a seasoning. A wonderful foodstuff…
Pickled Cucumbers
Summer – gardens – picnics – tea parties – cucumber sandwiches. It all kind of follows on one into the other. But what about something with just a wee bit more bite, a bit more zing than the ubiquitous cucumber ever so thinly sliced in a delicate cucumber sandwich. Let’s butch up the cucumber and…
Pickled Samphire
I have just spent the most wonderful week staying with my lovely friend Lis and her family in the seaside town of Tenby in Wales. Now many mock the weather in Wales saying it is the same as we have here on the west coast of Scotland – wet, windy and dull, well maybe it…
Pickled Cherries
Cherries mean summer time for me. Way back in the dim and distant past that was my youth cherries were only ever available during their short growing season within the UK, they didn’t just appear in the supermarkets all year round in the magical way they do nowadays. Oh no, back then cherries were special….
Sugar Free Pickled Radishes
I’m back from my wonderful week in France feeling refreshed and just a tad sad to be back in the land of wind and rain and a definite shortage on the rose front! We were blessed by good weather and enough sunshine to break out the shorts and sit by the pool soaking up the…
Spiced Pickled Beetroot
I adore beetroot, there is something so rich and satisfying about a root vegetable that has a real depth and flavour all its own yet marries so well with lots of other foods, complimenting and highlighting the others flavour and never stealing the show. For me pickled beetroot is a real staple of the larder…
Sugar Free Sweet And Sour Apricots
We are still in January though almost through this first dreary month of the year, still in sugar free land with my recipes. This time I thought I’d share with you my sugar free sweet and sour apricots. These are tart and tangy and just great to serve with cooked ham and a simple baked…
Pink Pickled Turnips
Here we are the day before Halloween and today I’m giving you another turnip (neep) recipe to keep us well and truly rooted (sorry couldn’t resist) in Scotland and our age old tradition of embracing the turnip as opposed to the ubiquitous pumpkin for halloween. Keen larderites will know that you can pickle practically anything…
