A couple of events: SMAC and Street Food at Whole Foods!

If you're looking for something to do this week, there's a couple of awesome events on in Glasgow! First up, on Wednesday night there is the monthly meeting of SMAC. SMAC? It's the Scottish Macaroni Appreciation Society which is held at Sloans! Mac cheese is one of my all time favourite things to eat and …

Eating the Cupboards

I think I invented this, or at least gave something that already exists a new name. Before we left for Melbourne, we were furiously penny pinching and had heaps of food in the cupboards. So about two weeks before we left, we stopped buying food in an effort to run down our supplies, as well …

Back from holidays!

So we're back from three weeks in beautifully sunny Melbourne. We had a totally amazing time and will bring you a post with a few reviews of the best places we ate. Before we left, I had a bit of an "eat the cupboards" challenge whereby we stopped buying food and just ate what we …

Book review – I Quit Sugar Cookbook

I got lots of lovely nice feedback on Twitter about my I Quit Sugar post! Thanks to everyone who tweeted - your feedback was really nice and uplifting. I thought I'd do a follow up post about what you actually eat on the I Quit Sugar programme. As I've been doing it for a while …

I Quit Sugar

Yep, it's true! I downloaded the I Quit Sugar eBooks from Sarah Wilson's website back in October last year. I am a huge fan of Sarah Wilson - for those of you who don't know who she is, she was an editor of Australian's women's magazines, and then hosted the first series of Masterchef Australia. …

The Living Room, Glasgow City Centre

We were invited to "Dining in the Dark" - the Living Room Glasgow's challenge for food bloggers to fight to the death, blindfolded, to win a coveted trophy for Dining in the Dark Champion 2012. Have I ever mentioned before how competitive I am? Well, let's just say that I was determined to win, and …

Guest post for Eat Balanced: Pumpkin Salad

Please visit Eat Balanced to check out my guest post! For this I did a pumpkin salad recipe, inspired by Sarah Wilson. I've been cooking a lot with coconut oil recently so roasted the pumpkin with that, and served it as a salad with spinach and yoghurt. The result was amazing - I was really surprised at how …

Capricorn goats cheese challenge: Kale pesto pasta with goats cheese

I really, really love twitter. I have such a lovely group of twitter friends that I've met through my @glasgow_food account - we even had a meet up recently that you might have read about! Thanks to Twitter, I recently had the pleasure of "meeting" Ethel from Capricorn Goats Cheese. Ethel told me they were having a competition called the #capricornchallenge - …

Pudsey Bear Sponge with Lemon Curd Icing

I was recently asked to participate in a challenge for Baking Mad and Children in Need to make a Pudsey Bear shaped dessert. I had considered cupcake making but thought it would be too fiddly, and as baking isn't really my strong point I thought I'd keep it simple with a sponge cake and lemon …

Ottolenghi’s soba noodles with aubergine and mango

I'd openly admit that I feel very uncomfortable calling eggplants aubergine, having called them eggplants for some 26 years previously. But because that's what Ottolenghi calls his recipe, I'll stick with it!In the spirit of saving money, I recently borrowed Ottolenghi's Plenty from my local library. I've discovered our library is an absolute treasure-trove of …