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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Baby garden birds
As well as the fruit and veg beginning to show in abundance so too are our little feathered guests. Sparrows have colonised the roof, great tits have begun flying in flocks and the incessant cheeping is enough to make the … Continue reading
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First Fruits
During my fleeting visit home between jobs I was lucky enough to witness the up turning of the first potato plant. It was a tense moment, but there in a tangle of roots were the little potatoes. Very small, granted, … Continue reading
The River Beauly and the Scottish Wild Salmon
This week I’m in Beauly, a lovely little Scottish town just North of Inverness. The lodge this week is pretty remote, and along a salmon-y section of the river Beauly, unsurprisingly the guests are all here to catch as many … Continue reading
Lovely loin of pork stuffed with haggis and served with cumberland sauce.
This week I am in North Berwick. Home of sea birds and golf. One of my clients is an American and having never had haggis before it was requested that haggis was in some way incorporated into the menu. Reluctant … Continue reading
Progress Report…
I’m now home and surrounded by the multitudes of summer, flowers here there and everywhere, baby birds peeping left right and centre and hopefully very soon garden produce? In truth some things have done better than others the lettuces, for … Continue reading
Found them!
After almost a week of searching I finally found the ospreys! Walking along the North bank of Loch Insh I saw a couple with cameras and binoculars looking very deliberately in a fixed direction. I could hear bag pipes playing … Continue reading
Mille Feuille
For Christmas I was kindly given the new ‘Green and Blacks’ cook book, full with fantastic chocolaty recipes very few of which I’ve found the time to really get to grips with. Generally speaking the recipes in the book are … Continue reading
This week in Aviemore
It’s been over a year since I was last in Aviemore, my boyfriend and I had left our cottage on the West coast at 1am and driven through the early hours to see the Capercaillie lekking. Magnificent as it was … Continue reading
Letters From A Lodge Cook 