Modern Recipes

Home smoked Scottish mackerel and nectarine salad Mackerel is a delicious and extremely nutritious fish, readily available to catch in Scottish inshore waters in the summer months. It is unfortunately scorned by a great many pleasure anglers, often seen as being nothing more than a fresh bait opportunity for catching other species. If you do catch some mackerel or have access to some which have been some freshly caught, there are a great many easy ways in which you can cook it up and serve it on a plate to delight your taste buds and those of your family. It may not seem obvious but a great accompaniment to particularly smoked mackerel is sweet fresh fruit such as peaches or nectarines. This simple salad has deliberately very few ingredients to allow the flavour of the smoked mackerel to shine through. Freshly smoked mackerel Ingredients (Serves 1) 1 freshly smoked whole mackerel 1 nectarine 4 or 5 lettuce leaves Salt and pepper Bread and butter to serve (optional) Mackerel are ready t...

Sliced sausage on hot and spicy beans with fried potatoes and yellow tomatoes Sausages, chips and beans is a very popular combination throughout the United Kingdom and is probably a popular stereotype among foreigners of typically unimaginative and boring British food. The one principal difference in Scotland compared to the rest of the country is simply that the sausages will usually be of the sliced or Lorne variety as opposed to the more widely popular bangers. It is, however, incredibly easy to vary this age old dish so as to make it almost unrecognisable without any extra effort or even that many extra ingredients. This is just one example of the ways in which this is possible and this creation takes account above all of the modern day love of spices and spicy food in this country. Ingredients (Serves 1) 1 medium sized baking potato 1 sliced (Lorne) sausage 2 tablespoons vegetable or sunflower oil Salt and pepper 8 ounce (small) can baked beans in tomato sauce 1/2 teaspoon ground ...