Quality
organic home-grown, home-raised ingredients are the stars here. I like
to buy as little as possible and when I do it is either from an organic
shop with a mission statement posted on its front-door or directly from a
local organic farm. We cook on a clean-burn Italian wood-cooker, using
untreated free pallet wood off-cuts as fuel.
Our idea of shopping.
Our idea of shopping.
At the cheese counter.
Bulk buying potatoes.
This is just the beginning,as the site expands it will have more categories and subsections.
Gluten-free recipes are liberally sprinkled throughout this site and are marked in each section. In general I like to take my inspiration for these from cultures that use gluten-free as a natural choice, rather than try to amend traditional wheat and other grain-based dishes. The notable exceptions are in traditional festive fare, such as Christmas Pudding and Pies, where I have been obliged to come up with alternative ingredients for family parties. These are becoming more in demand year by year as increasing numbers of our family are cutting down on grains.
Please Note - I love comments but spam is now out of control and nothing is being done about it, so I am forced to hold all comments for 'moderation' but genuine comments will be published and answered asap. Thanks, Sue
Just below you will find my most recently posted recipe:
Dish of the Day
Scottish Spiced Griddle Cakes - Gluten Free
The Scottish poet Robert Burns described his native land as a 'Land o' Cakes' and as with all cookery in our family we like to make variations on a theme. So as we just about every day make some form of oatcake or oat based blini for our breakfast, I've been experimenting with making a twice-cooked oat griddle cake, which serves as a sweet biscuit that we can eat anytime. Chocolate chip griddle cookies are now a firm favourite in our house but I wanted to make something that was more festive..read more
