Christmas cake and our top Christmassy foods
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Category Archives: fish
A saucy recipe for two
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 fishy tail at Edinburgh New Town Cookery School
Graham went to sample the Fish and Shellfish Saturday Workshop course at Edinburgh New Town Cookery School on Queen Street, Edinburgh. There was a real mix of people there – equally split between men and women. They were mostly locals, but others had travelled from as far as Manchester to attend.…
SousVide Supreme Demi – restaurant-level cooking at home
EF is a fan of sous vide cooking – if you’ve followed us for a while, you’ll remember that Mr. EF built a sous vide machine a while back. Recently, SousVide Supreme, a company that creates compact sous vides for the consumer market, asked us to review their latest machine.…
Whisky and seafood: A match made in heaven
I love the unexpected. Having been invited to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society by Seafood Scotland, I naturally was looking forward to a delicious meal and fabulous whisky. What I didn’t expect was the chance to chat with fishermen, fish processors and a fish market owner. It was fascinating to…
Ceviche! Peruvian Cuisine comes to Edinburgh
If Martin Morales has anything to do with it, Peruvian cooking will become the taste of 2013. Owner of Ceviche in London, dubbed the hottest restaurant of the year, he has just completed a 10-venue whistle stop tour of the country. Each night, he and his team created a pop…
American Adventures 3 – fish tacos
Tacos are, to use the American vernacular, awesome, even amazing. I first had tacos as a child in Sweden. They were the crunchy variety, filled with mince and topped with grated cheese, sloppy salsa and sour cream. Since then I have made my own hard-shelled tacos, tried soft shelled ones…
The Cream of Cornish Food
Recently, I received a press release from the Four Seasons hotels enticing me to take a culinary break at a far flung location. And whilst I could dream of jetting to the Seychelles just to go and catch a fish which would then be prepared by the head chef for…
We’re having a moment! Celebrating Scandinavian food
The Hairy Bikers went to Norway on their ‘bakeation’ this year, and Jamie Oliver went to Sweden last year. Scandinavian cuisine is having a moment (as Steffi Dellner pointed out in Prospect Magazine). I had noticed too and I was thinking about what makes Scandinavia hip at the moment. My…
The perfect sauce for fish
A windy day in Edinburgh with gusts up to 100 mph. Mr EF was at home rather than work and offered to cook. How wonderful to arrive home to a delicious meal and in particular an amazing sauce. Perfect sunshine food. The original BBC Good Food recipe features grilled fish…