Crown your Burns Night menu with Tony Singh’s clootie samosas. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns so we are celebrating with recipes for a fantastic Burns Night menu. All three are from top Scottish chefs with...
Jak O’Donnell’s Scotch Lamb and chorizo casserole. The centrepiece of our Burns Supper menu. Burns Night is tomorrow so we are blogging recipes for a tasty Burns supper menu. All three are from top Scottish chefs with...
Start your Burns supper with this creamed carrot and parsnip soup from Carina Contini. Pic: Zoe Barrie. Burns Night is on Wednesday and many readers will be planning to celebrate with a tasty Burns supper. The 5pm Dining blog would never...
Vodka socks: bound to work. Every year, the 5pm Dining blog pens a column discussing hangover cures. And every year, we come no closer to actually discovering the Holy Grail that is the guaranteed 100% effective hangover cure. Of course,...
We were lucky enough to visit the kitchen of Tower Restaurant, above Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland, and meet with Head Chef Jose Dalto who showed us how to cook hand-dived scallops with skordalia potato, crispy ham...
Pulling the pork takes five minutes. With apologies to any Portuguese readers, Sunday’s Euro 2016 final did not go the way that this 5pm Dining blog writer would have wished. Eder’s extra time goal was a heart-breaker for Les...
Jess Shepherd taking control in the kitchen. Last week, the 5pm Dining blog sauntered up to Edinburgh New Town Cookery School for a cookery demo of various world cuisines. Dishes from Spain, Vietnam and Japan were all convincingly...
Harvesting Jersey Royals by hand. The 5pm Dining blog tends to focus on ingredients from Scotland’s natural larder but not to the exclusion of everything else. Especially when everything else includes seasonal goodies such as Jersey...
Scotch pot roast beef: give Mum a break and cook lunch. Mother’s Day is nearly here and, for many of the nation’s mums, all they can look forward to is a badly executed breakfast in bed. Or perhaps a potato print card. Oh,...
The B’s Knees: as drunk by the cream of the pop world. For reasons which we can’t fathom, it seems as though the organisers of tomorrow’s BRIT Awards have, yet again, forgotten to send an invite to the 5pm Dining...
Number 16’s brownies We were lucky enough to pay Number 16 in Glasgow’s west end a visit where chef Helen Vass showed us how to make her chocolate brownies with salted caramel decorated with Scottish chocolates...
Martin Miller’s Gin: delightful served as a G ‘n’ T with strawberries and crushed black pepper. The 5pm Dining blog has often covered the many wonderful Scottish gins available. Naturally, this doesn’t mean that we...
Scotch Lamb with basil and pinenuts: winter warmer that tastes of summer. If some of the papers are to be believed, then today is Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year. Grim weather, post-Christmas blues and the long...
Burns Night is just a couple of weeks away and the 5pm Dining blog is already being inundated with hints and tips on how to hold the perfect Burns Supper as well as news on special Burns events. An easy way celebrate the Bard’s work...
The Hairy Bikers keep it simple with this recipe. While the 5pm Dining blog would like to wish all our readers a tasty New Year, we are aware that the early part of January is seldom a time of great culinary indulgence. After two weeks of...
Scotch Beef steak and mushroom pie: guaranteed cockle warmer. Monday morning after a wet weekend. And, judging from the weather forecast, it ain’t going to brighten up anytime soon. Do we feel down? Hell, no! This sort of weather...
