Scottish recipes adapted for a vegan palate

With many of Scotland’s traditional recipes being laden with meat, butter and lots of other animal based ingredients, you’d be forgiven for assuming a Scottish vegan cookbook was impossible. Packed with nutritional side notes and lovely food photography, Jones offers vegan alternatives for breakfast staples like black pudding and lorne sausage. I’m yet to be…

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A beautiful orange and chilli glazed duck recipe

We all like to try something different, and we’ve a recipe that’s a little unusual for the festive season. Here, we present a recipe for orange and chilli glazed duck with roasted Brussels sprouts, fennel, thyme, carrot and candied walnuts by Barry Bryson of Cater Edinburgh. Barry said: ‘The holiday season is just glorious, but…

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Grouse salad is a healthy twist for Game Week

Great British Game Week is celebrating, promoting and highlighting just how nutritious, versatile and delicious game meat is. This week we have brought you recipes to highlight the versatility of game, and we conclude today with a pulled grouse salad. With the shooting season in full swing, grouse is the bird of the moment. For…

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The perfect book for the deer stalker

Ingeniously combining facts, trivia, advice and personal observation with fictional short stories, this is the perfect book for every deer stalking enthusiast. Covering everything from recipes to stalking techniques this book will surprise even the most well-versed deer aficionado while being easy going enough for the newly enthused novice. The Deerstalker’s Bedside Book, by Charles Smith-Jones,…

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Go trout and about for Great British Game Week

Today we bring you our fourth recipe, to celebrate Great British Game Week. Now in its fifth year, Great British Game Week aims to celebrate, promote and highlight how nutritious, versatile and delicious game meat is. Today, we bring you some a recipe for smoked trout and avocado croustade, with capers and lemon zest, which…

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A delicious venison crostini canape that hits the spot

Great British Game Week is this week marking its fifth successful year. The event aims to celebrate, promote and highlight how nutritious, versatile and delicious game meat is. This week we have been bringing you recipes to highlight the versatility of game, and today, we bring you some game canapes, a recipe created by previous…

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Try our recipe for tres bon pheasant bonbons

Our celebration of Great British Game Week continues today, with another tasty recipe for you to try at home. The event is celebrating, promoting and highlighting just how nutritious, versatile and delicious game meat is. Today, we present some tasty pheasant bonbons, created by Annie Assheton of Farlows. Game is a healthy, ethical, sustainable and…

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Whisky for hair loss: does it really work?

As surprising as this may see, whisky has more uses than giving you some of the most horrific hangovers known to man. In fact, it has many benefits related to beauty; such as dealing with particularly oily skin, or hair loss. Remember – whisky is a drink primarily based on grain, generally containing corn, wheat…

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Plan ahead with a Christmas pudding recipe

We’re looking ahead to the festive season with a tasty Christmas pudding recipe, courtesy of Twelve Triangles. Twelve Triangles have four bakeries in Edinburgh and is the brainchild of bakers Rachel Morgan and Emily Cuddeford. They make and serve their signature cold-prove, slow-fermented sourdough loaves, legendary doughnuts and famed croissant loaves throughout their bakeries alongside…

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Spencer Matthews backs red meat in midweek meals

Businessman, TV star and 2018 Celebrity Masterchef runner up Spencer Matthews is fronting a new campaign aimed at highlighting the importance of lean red meat in a healthy, balanced diet. The campaign is launching across England, Wales and Scotland as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), Quality Meat…

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