recipes

Bachelor Shepherd’s (Cottage) Pie

This is original comfort food. Like most high-style dishes today, it started out as peasant food, a way to stretch meager ingredients into a filling meal. This is an ideal dish for leftovers. The variations can be endless depending on what you have on hand and your personal taste.

Hogmanay Cake Good Enough For All Year

In Scotland, there’s a tradition of giving oat cakes to children on New Year’s Eve. This is the same land that gave us the traditional song “Auld Lang Syne.” This New Year tradition of the oat cake is called Hogmany.