By fay.young on December 2, 2011
Apple pancakes with cinnamon butter, a variation on a traditional Scottish theme, went down well at World Kitchen in Leith events this year, here’s the recipe from Fay Young.
Ok, I know dropped scones are really meant for teatime. But they can be good at breakfast too – perhaps, sinfully, fried with bacon and served with [...]
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By fay.young on November 18, 2011
At World Kitchen in Leith events, Alice’s beans in coconut disappear off the plates in record time and everyone wants to know how to make them. Well, here Alice Musamba shares the secret and a little extra tip: the coconut sauce can be adapted to suit many other vegetables. In fact at last night’s World [...]
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By fay.young on November 4, 2011
When Agnes Ngulube Holmes goes shopping for World Food Day she finds herself transported from an Edinburgh street to the African continent. This is what she found.
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By fay.young on October 27, 2011
Rami Okasha rustled up a taste of Egypt for World Food Day. Here he gives his recipe for Felafel and makes it sound very simple. That’s Rami in the picture on the right busy dishing up to the stream of people arriving for lunch at Out of the Blue Drill Hall (Ellie and Maka are [...]
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By fay.young on October 19, 2011
Paella partners: pork, chorizo and squid
For World Food Day in Out of the Blue on Sunday 16 October, Ellie Casson set out to overcome her fear of failure – the perfect paella is hard to make and she has tasted the best in Spain where it comes with sun, sand and the Med.
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By fay.young on September 29, 2011
Things are heating up again at World Kitchen in Leith as members prepare to take part in World Food Day at Out of the Blue Drill Hall. Please consider this your invitation to join us!
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By fay.young on April 5, 2011
Meena
A beautiful green spinach cake was a hot (literally) favourite at the World Kitchen brunch. Here Meena Bhana shares her recipe for the spicy savoury cake but first she takes us to the bustling streets of Indian cities with her menu for the World Kitchen brunch.
I put together a menu of Gujerati dishes for the [...]
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By fay.young on March 29, 2011
“Knowing what to make is not to same as knowing how to make it.” In a story full of Spanish colour, Ellie Casson explains why she chose to make Spanish empanadillas for the World Kitchen brunch – and how.
When my family first moved to Spain, we discovered in a nearby village an outstanding family [...]
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By fay.young on March 29, 2011
thanks to Ellie Casson for the delicious chorizo stew…and for the picture too
Where to start? That was a problem facing our guests at the World Kitchen multicultural brunch which we organised with Multi-Cultural Family Base in Out of the Blue a week ago. We were spoiled for choice with the range of dishes cooked up [...]
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By fay.young on March 17, 2011
Rise and shine: marmalade cake is on the brunch menu too
Yesterday we had one of those isn’t-it-exciting-help-don’t-panic meetings. We’ve gone from worrying no-one will come to finding we are now fully booked. So all we have to do now is make sure we cook enough food to feed a big and enthusiastic crowd of all [...]
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