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How to Cook the Best Roast Potatoes

Roast Potatoes

A perfect roast potato surely has to be one of the best things on the planet. Fluffy inside, crisp crust on the outside, and a proper potato flavour. Smushed with your fork into a puddle of escaping gravy, this is the way to food nirvana. Not at all difficult to achieve, yet often horrendously misjudged, […]

10 Cuts of Meat for the Slow Cooker

Slow Cooker Cuts

Whether you do your slow cooking in a slow cooker, or make the most of your oven and hob, there can be no dispute that at the moment we all want to end the day with something comforting and savoury cooked low n slow. Tender meat, possibly some rich gravy, with vitality-boosting veggies and perhaps […]

Top Tips for Slow Cooker Success

Slow Cooker Success

For those of you who don’t know how to use a slow cooker then this autumn really is the time to get up to speed. Here at WCF HQ we have never really seen the point of such a thing; surely that’s what saucepans and low heat settings are for? Think again… Nowadays, a slow […]

5 Reasons to Buy Meat Online with West Coast Foods

WCF Reasons

So, why would you want to buy meat online with West Coast Foods? Well, for a start, we sell really great meat; that is after all what we do. So let’s call that number one – West Coast Foods Sell Really Great Meat All of our meat is a good quality local Scottish meat. Even […]

Marinade or Dry Rub – Which is Best?

Marinades

As with many things, it is more a question of which to use when, rather than declaring an out and out winner. But, What is Marinade? A marinade is a flavour enhancer based around acidic liquid in which meat, or other ingredients, is steeped prior to cooking. As well as tenderising, by breaking down the […]

How to Season Meat

We use salt and pepper without a thought; just an extra thing that occurs in every recipe and on every table. The term seasoning, used in food, denotes the art of enhancing flavour. But how many of us know how to season well? A seasoning, on the other hand, is often a blend of spices […]

Roll and Slice, And a Bottle O’ Juice

Scotch Steak Slice Sausage

Chances are that if you are Scottish (regardless of whether you live here, there, or everywhere) and we were to bravely fold back the corners of your psyche, what we would find first and foremost is square sausage. Fried to a crisp, with a melting meaty interior, and slipped lovingly into a Glasgow roll with […]

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Roast Dinner

There can be a tendency to take a much-polarised view of the world; an either-or approach that colours our lives in every aspect, from the politics we follow to the food we eat. If we don’t belong in one camp or another or choose one thing above another, then we are clearly uninformed or, even […]

Make Life Easier – Order Meat Online

Buying Butcher Meat

Running a home, be it a student flat or a large family house, can be hard at the best of times. Throw in the daily feeding frenzy with its requisite shop and life just got a whole lot harder. We all know that we shouldn’t be giving away our hard-earned cash to the big supermarkets […]

Strawberries & Cream

Strawberries & cream

Strawberries and cream are part of the great British summer but are you getting the best from yours? As with most things in life, a little attention to detail can go a long way. To get the most flavour from your strawberries and cream, follow these few simple tips… 1. Serve at room temperature; cold […]