Christmas
Scottish Smoked Salmon – your where to buy for Christmas
Last minute food shopping? Fear not. Here is our recommendation on where to get the bare essential starter item for making it an ultra special Scottish foodie Christmas: the quintessential king of smoked fish, Salmon.
Although Scottish Smoked Salmon is still considered somewhat a luxury food item, steady supply has maintained the prices at relatively the same levels they were years ago, making it an affordable food item that can be enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, dinner or as a snack.
Salmon can be of course be farmed or wild. The latter is rarer and more ...
Christmas Gift for the Curious Cook: Food Smoking & Pink Himalayan Salt Block Cooking Workshop
Is it because we are in the age of molecular gastronomy, where you could argue food is sometimes tricked into being something it isn’t, that it feels so good to unleash your culinary creativity using salt, one of nature’s purest minerals in an altogether different way?The concept of using a Himalayan Salt Block for curing, cooking, chilling and serving was brought to my attention recently by the Scottish company Salt House. From curing Scottish salmon for gravadlax, searing super fresh tuna, cooking prime Aberdeen Angus steaks, making a delicious chilled salted ...
The King of Smoked Fish
This year we have decided to give some recommendations on where to get some of the bare essentials for making an ultra special Scottish foodie Christmas. Today we look at the quintessential king of smoked fish, Salmon. Although Scottish Smoked Salmon is still considered somewhat a luxury food item, steady supply has maintained the prices at relatively the same levels they were years ago, making it an affordable food item that can be enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, dinner or as a snack. Salmon can be of course be farmed or wild. The latter is rarer and more expensive. Both ...
Christmas Pudding: The tradition of Stir Up Sunday (And an early Day 1 of our 12 days of Christmas!)
So today is ‘Stir Up Sunday’, the day you should make your Christmas Pudding. We have been thinking about Christmas for weeks already, due to the release of our 2013 Natural Scotland Hamper range (have a look if you haven’t seen the range), and it feels great and wholly acceptable to really start talking about the festive.With various Christmas themed Scottish artisan food tasting events in the diary and no doubt a few too many bottles of Cairn O’Mohr Scottish fruit wine tested before the events have even started (for quality purposes naturally) we do love Christ...
