My blog posts about Dumfries and Galloway would not be complete without talking about Cream O’Galloway, an ice cream producer between Gatehouse of Fleet and Kirkcudbright. We seem to spend much of our family holiday centred around their farm at Rainton, where they have developed a tasteful and sustainable attraction around the Cream O’Galloway ice [...]
Of Ice Cream In Dumfries and Galloway
July 31st, 2010Biodegradable Tea Bags
July 30th, 2010It was brought to our attention recently that some tea bags are not really biodegradable as they use polypropylene glues to seal the edges of the tea bags. This is only the case for tea bags that are heat sealed in the tea bagging process. The tea bags used in Steenbergs bagged teas do not [...]
Of Cheese In Dumfries And Galloway
July 25th, 2010(19/7/2010) Up the Water of Fleet, you get to Cairnsmore of Fleet Nature Reserve and the Clints of Dromore, which is not only a wonderfully romantic name for some hills but also a decent-sized hill that you can walk up in no time, or along and around, getting towards a beautiful brick old railway bridge called the [...]
Of Fish In Dumfries And Galloway
July 23rd, 2010(17/7/2010) We are on our annual family holiday, which as for the last three years has been in Dumfries & Galloway near Gatehouse of Fleet; no overseas travel or glamorous trips for us – in fact, the Steenberg family has been holidaying around here for many, many years with my childhood spent around Gatehouse of [...]
Walk In North Yorkshire – Battle of Broughbridge
July 17th, 2010I have a confession to make – I am not a big walker that likes to conquer hills and mountains, even if I know I should be striding forth across moorland and up mountains. I am not a walker that goes into the hills for the beauty of nature; I get that beauty all around [...]
I Don’t Know
July 14th, 2010I had recently found that our children, as well as some colleagues at work, would always answer questions “I don’t know” or “Don’t know”, whether it’s the answer to “What do you want for supper tonight?” or “What did you do at school today?” So I have bought the web domain www.idontknow.co.uk, but the irony is [...]
Two Books For All Environmentalists
July 11th, 2010I have just finished the second of two books that are must-reads for those interested in our planet. They are Nigel Lawson’s “An appeal to reason – a cool look at global warming” and Bjørn Lomborg’s “Cool it – the skeptical environmentalist’s guide to global warming”, both of which are very much in the skeptical to anti-climate [...]
Pierre Hermé’s Recipe For Raspberry And Chocolate Tart
July 9th, 2010Pierre Hermé continues to inspire me.
For me, I spent last Saturday in the perfect place – in the kitchen, listening to sport on BBC Radio 5 on our digital radio and baking. It was the turn of Hermé’s Raspberry And Chocolate Tart. The end result was sheer perfection – bittersweet flavours from 72% cocoa dark chocolate from Trinatario cocoa [...]
