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Routes Recipes and Wild Experiences from the West Coast of Scotland
This dehydrated Mexican rice recipe is inspired by Rick Bayless’s arroz rojo in his excellent Mexican Kitchen cookbook. Highly recommended for all things Mexican cooking! FYI: There are some affiliate links in …
After the success of my recent Yorkshire Wensleydale Cranberry & Apple Cake, I decided to take the concept further. Further west, in fact. From Yorkshire to France to a little …
What do you do with a bunch of leftover cheese? Well, make cake, of course! This cake was inspired by a haul of Wensleydale & Cranberries cheese that we acquired …
This vegetarian jambalaya is a beautiful thing for backpacking. It involves one of my favourite combos – beans and rice, a combination that is truly more than the sum of …
Rice is one of the ultimate backpacking staples. It’s lightweight, inexpensive, nutritious, filling, and endlessly versatile. The only problem? Cooking raw rice on the trail takes a long time and …
This dehydrated wild mushroom pilau has fast become one of my favourite trail meals. It’s inspired by a recipe from Meera Sodha’s brilliant book Made in India — a dish I’ve cooked countless times …
When we moved into our current home in Assynt, I was delighted to discover rhubarb growing in a random corner of the garden. Most of it gets turned into rhubarb …
Behold, the tastiest tortilla soup recipe out there with the least amount of effort. There are a few affiliate links in here – if you click them and make a …
Masa harina is traditionally used to make tortillas and tamales, but it also makes delicious cornbread! (And indeed, cornbread is far more straightforward to make than tortillas or tamales, hence …
Meet salsa macha, the Mexican chilli sauce you’re going to want to put on everything. This salsa macha recipe is the first thing I ever made that turned me on …
Chicago-style hot giardiniera – a mix of crunchy pickled chillies and vegetables packed in oil – is probably my all time favourite condiment. It’s endlessly versatile and hugely addictive – …
Here’s my recipe for the classic French stew adapted to be (a) vegetarian / vegan and (b) dehydrator-friendly. One of the best parts of road trips through France is the …
Every [non-coeliac] hiker should have a good bread recipe in their repertoire. Homemade bread doesn’t contain all the crappy chemicals that store-bought bread contains. And wholemeal bread, being higher fibre …
A food dehydrator is one of the best investments I’ve ever made, significantly enhancing my wild camping and backpacking adventures with tent-side deliciousness. Homemade dehydrated backpacking meals offer numerous benefits: …
This is a delicious and easy backpacking soba noodle dish that is lightweight and super portable, perfect for wild camping and backpacking adventures (or perhaps a quick desk lunch at …
This is my go-to hot sauce recipe that can be made with either red or green chillies. It was a top seller when I had my Shopify store during Covid, …
Makes 6 Ingredients 100g oats 40g ground almonds 10g chia seeds 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda pinch of salt 4 medjool dates (or 8 dried apricots) …
I was originally going to call this “healthy hiker’s banana bread” for its lack of both refined sugar and loads of butter. But I decided the presence of something awesome …
I now have nettle burgers to add to my lexicon of favourite nettle recipes (which also includes nettle pesto, nettle pizza, and nettle spanakopita!). These burgers are mega tasty, super …
When I saw this recipe for gooseberry and elderflower cordial in Fiona Beckett’s book How to Drink Without Drinking, I knew I had to try it. Elderflowers are a highlight …
This elderflower cordial cocktail is affectionately called “the bump start” by me and its friends. Feel free to read the origin story below, a tale of adventure of a different …
Wild elderflower cordial is a spring foraging classic, one of my first go-to recipes when the elderflowers start to appear in the hedgerows in May. But this cordial isn’t just …
Dandelions are proliferous in spring and this dandelion jam recipe is a great way to encapsulate their cheerful yellow petals into a delightful jam. The resulting dandelion jam has an …
This tasty dehydrated butternut squash soup is amped up with red lentils and ras el hanout, a North African spice mix. This soup is hearty, easy to make, rehydrates quickly, …
