Tag: scottish
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November 22, 2007 02:23 PM EST --
I have been asked a few times in the last week what the xx is after all of my comments , I am so sorry but someone actuallythought they had done something wrong and thought this was my way of commenting . . .
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February 12, 2008 12:12 PM EST --
So,
My husband's family is predominately Scotish. I think it would be the coolest thing ever for us to speak some basic gaelic with our daughter. I really want to get a head start and . . .
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May 30, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
The LARGEST Scottish Games that I have attended is at the Caledonian Games of San Francisco. The FARTHEST Scottish Games from California that I have attenced is Aboyne, Scottland.
How about . . .
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November 29, 2007 04:35 AM EST --
I thought it would be worth spotlighting this in time for Christmas/Hogmanay 20008.
With the Christmas/Hogmanay season coming up, here's a recipe for something to nibble on with a pre-dinner drink! . . .
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December 21, 2007 05:08 AM EST --
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: about 2- 3 hours
3 tbsp plain flour
900g Aberdeen Angus braising steak, diced
3 tbsp sunflower oil
2 medium leeks, washed and sliced
350g Chantenay . . .
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December 18, 2007 02:37 PM EST --
The culture of whisky attains perfection in the Speyside region of northeast Scotland. More than half of the country's 100-odd single-malt distilleries are located here, and the top three malt whiskies . . .
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March 10, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
Tried and tested and highly recommended by members of my family! I can't remember the origins of the recipe, but suspect it might be from one of D, Smith's earliest books.
2 heaped . . .
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January 28, 2007 06:41 PM EST --
Memory of an Oasis in a Far Off Desert War
This is a poem composed by my second husband, Donald MacDonald MacGill, as he stood at the bar of the Gold Door Tavern with a scotch and water in his . . .
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June 06, 2008 06:32 PM EDT --
Walk With Pride!
A recent Scottish immigrant attends his first baseball game in his new country, and after a base hit he . . .
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December 17, 2008 06:36 AM EST --
I posted this last year, and as I'm making a couple of them tonight, I though it was worth reposting.
This yule log is very popular in the UK, and is known in France as bouche Noel.
1 oz plain . . .
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April 20, 2008 08:35 AM EDT --
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Scottish proverb
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November 23, 2007 02:18 PM EST --
My hubby and I had a day to ourselves today so we went for a drive , It was really frosty this morning and so cold we could see out breath in the air but it was a gorgeous day , The sun was shining and . . .
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December 27, 2007 12:21 PM EST --
Dad had it easy. If he was a Scotch man, his choices were basically Dewar's, Johnnie Walker, or Chivas. Then single-malts began to pour into the market, and life wasn't so simple. To understand . . .
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April 04, 2007 03:30 PM EDT --
This week is Tartan Week here in NY....yes, Tartan as in the print used in kilts. New York is celebrating Scottish Heritage Week with the Friends of Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland. You must . . .
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June 04, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
A lab technician has captured what is being called the most compelling video yet of what many deem to be the mythical Loch Ness monster — so compelling, in fact, that the normally reticent BBC Scotland . . .
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January 24, 2008 09:07 AM EST --
I usually make this into loaves, but can baked as rolls, too.
I kilo granary bread flour
50g butter
7g sachet of yeast
2 level teaspoons sugar
1.25 level teaspoon salt
550 . . .
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July 20, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
I came across this article yesterday while looking for something else and thought it was pretty amusing. It tells of what is supposedly the average American's perceptions of Scotland and we Scots. . . .
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October 07, 2008 06:16 AM EDT --
There are probably as many family recipes for this soup as there are Scots! Here's mine.
350g red split lentils
3 tablespoons vegetable/sunflower oil
A smoked ham hock or . . .
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January 07, 2008 10:21 AM EST --
One of the most famous emblems of Scotland is the humble thistle, along with the motto of Scottish kings, 'Nemo me impune lacessit' - translated as 'None provokes me, unpunished'- or in . . .
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March 30, 2008 09:59 PM EDT --
It was Mother's Day. My mother and stepfather were just coming back from a trip. I can't recall if the trip was for business or pleasure, but I do recall I was 16-years old.
I decided . . .
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