Recipes?

[vipermcgee]

Hey guys, I like to cook (never tried cooking kilted though), and I was wondering if any of you have any interesting Scottish recipes you would like to share? I tried my hand at creating a shephard's pie tonight for dinner, and it seems to have disappeared! I wanted to take a picture to post with this thread, but the kids tore into it like tornados! There was barely enough left for my lunch tomorrow. I'll try to post my recipe later, as I pulled from my knowlege of cooking and made it up as I went! (except a few suggestions I pulled from a Rachael Ray 30 minute meals recipe)

Robert

[Chas]

My wife makes the best Shepherd's Pie in the world. But she regularly complains that it is getting harder to find really fresh shepherds.

Seriously though, fancy cooking is all very well, but good plain cooking using quality ingredients and a bit of adventure cannot be beaten.

Regards

Chas

[Peter C.]

Over here in the US people think shepherds pie is made with ground beef. It should be made with lamb, hence the name.

Now cottage pie is made with ground beef but is virtually unknown here in the US, although it is commonly made, and called shepherds pie.

Peter

[vipermcgee]

Over here in the US people think shepherds pie is made with ground beef. It should be made with lamb, hence the name.

Now cottage pie is made with ground beef but is virtually unknown here in the US, although it is commonly made, and called shepherds pie.

Peter

I guess I actually mada a cottage pie, as our one and only local gracer does not carry lamb. There is a small butcher nearby that someone told me later carries lamb, but I had already made my dish. Maybe next time I will go by and see if I can acquire any lamb before I set out to cook.

[Peter C.]

I guess I actually mada a cottage pie, as our one and only local gracer does not carry lamb. There is a small butcher nearby that someone told me later carries lamb, but I had already made my dish. Maybe next time I will go by and see if I can acquire any lamb before I set out to cook.

You started a great thread, I must try some of these recipes.

I love cottage pie, but you must try shepherds pie made properly with lamb, it is delicious.

Peter

[vipermcgee]

You started a great thread, I must try some of these recipes.

I love cottage pie, but you must try shepherds pie made properly with lamb, it is delicious.

Peter

Thank you! And I will get to that shepherd's pie. I passed up the opportunity to try one recently, and haggis as well, but I was at a festival and my funds were limited. I did not want to spend what I had on foods I may not like...not that I have found many of those!

Now this thread is awesome, but it is also giving me crazy food cravings and at this point in my pregnancy, I'm too tired to stay in the kitchen making this stuff. We'll see how my husband likes these recipes when I decide I want Highland Eggs or Tattie Scones at 3 in the morning!



I blame my hubby! (The Power of the Kilt) Thank goodness for the world's greatest excuse to eat like a pig!

--Chelsea McMurdo--

Chelsea,
I must say congratulantions! Keep us nosy Xmarkers posted! And I am truly sorry for the forced cravings.

Robert

[Arlen]

Often when I miss something from home and I don;t already have a recipe for it I'll look on here.
http://www.rampantscotland.com/recip...cipe_index.htm

[Peter C.]

Often when I miss something from home and I don;t already have a recipe for it I'll look on here.
http://www.rampantscotland.com/recip...cipe_index.htm

Great site thanks for that Arlen.

Peter

[Dall_Piobaire]

If we have one for good Scotch, why not a group for Trad cooking???

I will cook anything and everything, love to cook, just got finished with shortbread that dissappeared as fast as it cooled!

I have subsititued turkey for the lamb and/or ground beef, nothing beats the lamb though. Tha's got my mouth watering just now!

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Beef....blech! I use deer or elk...sometimes antelope or moose.

--Chelsea McMurdo--

(who will be eyeing the "mountain maggots" at hunting camp this weekend thinking about authentic shepard's pie)