Introduction It’s Breakfast Week, and to celebrate we’ve carried out a survey of Edinburgh Foody readers. The lovely folks at One Square at the Sheraton Hotel offered a prize of breakfast for two which led to a wonderful response. So what do you, our intrepid readers like? Are you creatures of habit…
I’ve been set a challenge by Fish is the Dish (part of Seafish) to come up with 4 fish dishes. The Challenge Our fourth recipe completes the challenge! We eat a lot of fish in the Edinburgh Foody household. We’re lucky enough to have fresh fish shops in Edinburgh and…
I love Christmas leftovers. I look forward all year to the wonderful stock you can make from the turkey carcass. I use this to create tasty soup and sauces. Simply pop the bones into a large pot or if you’ve got one into a pressure cooker and add water up to the…
Over the last four months, I’ve experimented with the SousVide Supreme Demi, a compact sous vide for home use. We’ve used it to cook fish, vegetables, and fruit, to prepare potatoes to make very tasty gnocchi, to infuse vodka and make pumpkin custards. With Christmas just around the corner, my experiments…
Welcome to this month’s sous vide recipe in our series of posts. Whether you’re new to sous vide cooking or want to add something to your repertoire, we aim to inspire you. Caroline’s been using the Sous Vide Supreme Demi. In the Edinburgh Foody household, we have the larger machine,…
Stuck for what to buy at Christmas? In the run up to Christmas 2014 we’ll be adding to this page, to give you 12 delicious foodie ideas. Check back often!
Blythe of Lunchquest send me a message. “Had I heard about Restaurant Day?” I had not. I looked at their webpage and discovered that it is a”food carnival created by thousands of people organizing and visiting one-day restaurants worldwide”. Blythe issued me a challenge. “Why don’t you do something? I’ll…
I really like lasagna, but since we’re a vegetarian household, we don’t make a bolognese version. I’ve had veggie ones that I quite liked – my favourite was a tricolore with gorgeous home-made pesto – but often veggie lasagna is synonymous with soggy bits of courgette and mushroom. To overcome…
Soy sauce is one of the staples of the Edinburgh Foody store cupboard. It often gets used to brighten up a dish that needs a little something to make it zing (something Kikkoman call +K!). Kikkoman have challenged bloggers to come up with a recipe that is one pot, and…
A couple of months ago we received an email from CheckOneTwo asking if we were at all interested in coming up with a recipe that could help raise awareness of testicular cancer. On October 11th, during the Urban Food Fest in Shoreditch, they want as many people as possible to upload pictures of…
