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 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 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 December 17, 2010
More warming recipes from the World (soup) Kitchen in Leith. This one is from Claire with a deliciously easy method for making Curried Butternut soup for 4. As she says: “I love the whole bung it all in a pot aspect. No oil required!”
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By fay.young on December 2, 2010
No food miles from field to this farm shop
By popular request, here’s the recipe for the red soup we mentioned on Facebook the other night. Basically you can put together whatever red veg you can find in your cupboard – a mix sweet potatoes or carrots and tomatoes with lentils for extra nourishment. But [...]
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By fay.young on November 2, 2010
Continuing our World Kitchen in Leith recipe series, Mridu shares the secret of making Puris
They disappeared like hot cakes. Deep fried Puris were one of the hits of our World Kitchen in Leith festival night. Easier than rotis or parathas, puris still need a little practice if you want to get them to puff up [...]
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By fay.young on September 24, 2010
Starting a series of World Kitchen recipes, Sam Barron passes on a family treat:
The recipe was never written down. Over generations the technique was simply a handful of this and a pinch of that. Then one of Granny Barron’s daughters watched her mother as she made some bread. She carefully measured the quantities and came [...]
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