80% Osso at Home Peebles, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson February 28, 2021 Restaurant Review Chopping, dicing, simmering, roasting, melting, mixing, grilling, beating, stirring, liquidising, emulsifying, reducing and chilling, are just a few of the skills employed by Ali McGrath from Osso in Peebles...
Scotland’s Larder: Iain R. Spink’s Original Smokies from Arbroath Catriona Thomson February 25, 2021 Producers Iain R. Spink has been called an unofficial ambassador for Arbroath Smokies, and he is never far away from his home port, where his family ran their fish processing factory for about 100 years. He gets a...
Scotland’s Larder: Jamie Brown from Jarvis Pickle Pies Catriona Thomson February 22, 2021 Producers One of the events during British Pie Week is the British Pie Awards, but this year, the organisers of the fiercely contested awards took the decision to postpone until later in the summer or early autumn due...
Scotland’s Larder: Rob Paton from The Fat Batard Bakery, Peebles Catriona Thomson February 12, 2021 Producers Rob Paton from The Fat Batard Bakery, Peebles has obviously got a wicked sense of humour when it came to naming his shop which he opened in January last year, "just in time for lockdown," he said. The...
80% Underdog, Peebles, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson February 5, 2021 Restaurant Review As a result of the current pandemic we are all getting used to lining up and waiting our turn, so much so that I'm thinking of publishing a manual on the do’s and don't of q-etiquette. Here in the...
Scotland’s Larder: Andrew Skea from The Potato House Catriona Thomson February 3, 2021 Producers Whether it is for baking, boiling, roasting, making chips or for mash, Andrew Skea knows a thing or two about the humble potato. Andrew’s grandfather was involved in growing seed potatoes on a mixed...
Scotland’s Larder: Selina Cairns from Errington Cheese Catriona Thomson January 29, 2021 Producers Selina Cairns was born in Dumfries but moved to Walston Braehead Farm, Lanark when she was two. Humphrey, her father, went into dairy sheep in the early 80's. She tells us that her father didn't have a...
Scotland’s Larder: Richard Keeling and Jessica Jericevich, from Three Hills Coffee Roastery in Selkirk Catriona Thomson January 26, 2021 Producers Three Hills Coffee Roastery is based in Selkirk in the Borders and is named after triple summits of the nearby Eildons. The owners, Richard Keeling and Jessica Jericevich, were struggling to come up with a...
70% Heat@Home pizza from Wood Ovens Wonders, Leadburn, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson January 22, 2021 Restaurant Review In our house we are all beginning to feel the strain of another lockdown, and at times you can cut the emotional tension with a knife. Entirely gone is the plucky can do spirit, of make do and mend from...
Scotland’s larder: Bryce Cunningham from Mossgiel dairy farm Catriona Thomson January 15, 2021 Producers Bryce Cunningham from Mossgiel dairy farm in Ayrshire shares a connection with a certain ploughman poet. Robert Burns lived at the farm between 1784 -86 and along with his brother Gilbert, they worked...
