Amy MacBeath

I decided recently that I love cooking again, not just like heating something up or adding a jar of sauce but proper homely efforts that may you feel all warm and cosy inside.  It’s never fun cooking for one, there’s no satisfaction in the finished product if you don’t have someone else to enjoy it.  By sheer guesswork alone I’ve learned that I can make a pan of broth or tattee soup, macaroni or lasagna just like my mum’s and even her mum’s (both great cooks!) and my veggy efforts have gone down well with my vegetarian sister, all good signs.  Even my cranachan attempt was scoffed!  But I haven’t yet discovered my trademark recipe…my latest creation was a butternut squash risotto with chili and creme fraiche…very yummy…but I now have to go on to bigger and better things!  So the search begins to find my very own ’signature’ dish!