Breakfast waffle sour beer is the latest from Vault City

Scotland’s scientists of sour beer have unveiled their latest creation – a beer that tastes just like breakfast. The Fruits of the forest triple-stacked breakfast waffle beer is the latest in a long list of experimental beers by Portobello’s Vault City. Although it’s full of fruit, co-founder Steven Smith-Hay, has urged beer aficionados to avoid…

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Have you tried Goan Prawn and Bramley Apple Curry?

We bring your our final apple recipe today with something that’s perfect for the weekend – a curry! With British fruit in season, and apples dropping from the trees, it seems like the right time to celebrate and use them. Courtesy of British Apples and Pears, here’s another filling recipe. Click HERE for more recipes…

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Have you ever tried a Bramley Apple Caponata?

Caponata is a Sicilian dish consisting of chopped fried aubergine and other vegetables. And today we present a tasty variant made with apples. With British fruit in season, and apples dropping from the trees, it seems like the right time to celebrate and use them. Courtesy of British Apples and Pears, here’s another filling recipe.…

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Start your morning with a filling healthy treat

When it’s dark, cold and wet in the morning, it’s sometimes hard to motivate yourself. Today, we present a recommended Vegan Bramley Apple and Coconut Chia Breakfast Bowl. With British fruit in season, and apples and pears dropping from the trees, it seems like the right time to celebrate and use them. Courtesy of British…

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Tasty Bramley Apple and Beetroot Potato Cakes

How often do we complain that we regularly eat the same things, over and over again? With British fruit in season, and apples and pears dropping from the trees, it seems like the right time to celebrate and use them. Courtesy of British Apples and Pears, here’s a delicious recipe for Bramley Apple and Beetroot…

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Try Chicken Skewers with Bramley Apple Salad

Meat and fruit are a delicious food pairing, as we’re demonstrating with our daily recipes this week. With British fruit in season, and apples and pears dropping from the trees, it seems like the right time to celebrateand use them. Courtesy of British Apples and Pears, here’s a delicious recipe for chicken skewers. Click HERE…

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Aldi: Toasting reliable fizzy favourites

Peter Ranscombe salutes Aldi for the consistency of its sparkling wines. SUPERMARKET shopping is – let’s face it – boring. Don your face covering and trudge down the same aisles, week after week, month after month. Pick up the same milk, the same bread, the same giant bag of crisps that you promise yourself will…

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Armchair exploring: Returning to Romania with Cramele Recas

Restrictions on movement present an ideal opportunity for Peter Ranscombe to return to Romania’s native varieties and great-value wines. WHENEVER friends or acquaintances ask about the wine adventures on which I’ve been, one trip more than any other always piques their interest – Romania. So many people still have images of Anneka Rice’s 1990 visit…

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Keep an eye out for these rare winter birds

Across the country large numbers of winter thrushes, fieldfares and redwings are turning up on lawns as the temperature plummets. These birds are often mistaken for the song thrush, which can be found in gardens all year round, as they look very similar. Sadly the more familiar song thrush, together with winter visitors fieldfares and…

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WINE TO DINE – MAY 2019 – RHUBARB

Scottish Field wine columnist Peter Ranscombe raids the cellar for five wines to go with rhubarb. FOR me, rhubarb will always conjure up memories of home in Nairnshire. Generations of our family’s cats were buried in the corner of the garden where the rhubarb grew best – although I still don’t want to dwell for…

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