Colin Fleming, Head Chef at Edinburgh’s Printing Press Bar and Kitchen, showed us how to make this popular pigeon dish. Watch Colin cook the recipe in the video below and we’ve put the recipe below for those who want to try at...
Nichola Fletcher’s venison with vegetable ribbons. Following in the footsteps of The Macsween Haggis Bible and The Stornoway Black Pudding Bible, Edinburgh-based publishers Birlinn have just launched The Venison Bible. It has been...
The BBC Good Food Show Scotland hits Glasgow’s SECC this November. Join some of Britain’s most popular chefs including Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood, Michael Roux Jr. and James Martin who will be educating and entertaining throughout the...
Beef goulash: hearty rib-sticker. The Indian summer has been lovely and the 5pm Dining blog has enjoyed a fair few walks which have featured the unusual combination of warm sunshine and glorious autumnal colours in the trees. However, the...
Jamie Scott and Gregg Wallace show their Scotch lamb PGI dishes. Pic Alan Richardson Dundee, Pix-AR.co.uk Earlier this week, the 5pm Dining blog had a fun lunch with Gregg Wallace, Masterchef presenter, Strictly disaster and general good...
The Great British Bake Off will shortly be dusting off its apron and getting ready to rumble. Eggs will be whisked; dough kneaded and sugar spun into ever more elaborate sculptures. Your finished bread should look like this. All well and...
Unless the weather changes dramatically, it’s fair to say summer 2015 has not been a classic. In fact, thanks to the the cloudy skies and drizzle, we would barely even know it was summer at all if it wasn’t for two things:...
We took a visit to Twenty Princes Street in Edinburgh and Executive Chef Tony Sarton gave us a delicious recipe for salt and rosemary baked seabass. Perfect for a dinner party, read the recipe below and watch Tony cooking the dish...
Jonathan blogged about Mark Greenaway’s his new beer pairing recipes to try at home and we’ve got one of them for 5pmer’s to give a go: Rack of Mutton with Whisky Beer Glaze & Nettle Herb Crust (serves...
Chef Mark Greenaway with Tennent’s Beer aged with Whisky Oak. Pic: Paul Johnston Copper Mango. A ‘Reekin Fat Hen’ may sound like a particularly ungallant insult. In fact, it’s just one of an imminent series of new try-at-home...
A regular on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and Food Network UK shows, Mark Sargeant is a familiar face on our television screens, listen to him chat about his career to date in the video above. When not cooking in the studio, he runs...
Nothing says late spring like a lamb dish. Of course, lamb can be enjoyed all year round as an alternative to more obvious beef or chicken, but lamb’s rich tender taste is best enjoyed when it’s sunny outside. One of...
Cooking is a lot easier when you know all the tips and tricks to make it so. We asked some of our 5pm chefs for their number one cooking tip. Get ready to take notes…. [][1]John Quigley from Red Onion shares his tip 1. Sharp...
\ The 5pm Dining blog dropped by Heads and Tales, the West End, Edinburgh, basement bar which is also home to Edinburgh Gin Distillery. As you might expect from a bar which contains numerous gin stills, the bar staff at Heads and Tales...
Straight from the kitchens of Divino Enoteca in Edinburgh’s Old Town, we’ve got the perfect recipe for Spring . We paid them a visit and filmed them cooking one of their new dishes. Pan-fried Pollock on braised fennel &...
Scottish salmon is delicious all year round but there’s something about spring that suits it particularly well. Maybe it’s all the spring vegetables now in season which complement its light, fresh taste. Not only is salmon...
