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In conjunction with Cake Friday at the Cafe (please see the website for details) the Foodies that work in the office have decided to write up their favourite cake recipes!
Vicky Sponge my personal favourite! A brilliant summer cake, great for a barbeque desert or secretly indulge in a wedge with a cup of tea in (Read more)

Starting TODAY, we are extending our opening hours! Hurrah, I hear you shout! Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday we will now be open until 9pm. So you can now come to us for your after work drinks.
You can choose from a wide selection of Scottish beers, including a huge range from Brew Dog, a few (Read more)

It is the season for delicious tomatoes; they are such a versatile ingredient for so many different dishes! You can throw cherry tomatoes into a salad. Create a salad entirely from tomatoes (Three types make it awesome), with a wee glug of red wine vinegar, rapeseed oil and a bit of salt and pepper… Scrum!
Goji (Read more)

Cranachan is a typical Scottish sweet treat, formerly eaten as a dessert at Harvest time when the raspberries were plentiful. It is also a popular dessert at Scottish weddings and Burns Night (25th Jan).
Cranachan is sometimes called Crowdie Cream, because it was originally made with a soft Scottish cheese known as Crowdie. If you would (Read more)

This week the team at Foodies thought that we would focus on the only remaining team from Africa in the World Cup. Ghana.
Ghana relished in victory against the USA to push them through the group stages of the World Cup.  In the Foodie World Cup blog, we take a look into Ghanaian cuisine, its history (Read more)

Brazil, the land of colourful carnivals, the Amazon rainforest, and most importantly Football.  Soccer legends such as Pele, Ronaldo and Robinho all hail from this football crazy country. Brazil is currently ranked by FIFA as number one in the world and is the bookies favourite to lift the World Cup trophy in South Africa this (Read more)

Football fever has grasped the nation once again hasn’t it? Not so much fun for poor Scotland being knocked out in the qualifying round though.  However, our country of Football Mad supporters still seem to be embracing the delights, the tension, the competition, the colours, and the atmosphere of the beautiful game.
We here at Foodie (Read more)

Last week attend the Moffat/PSYBT awards in Travel and Tourism having been shortlisted for an award. Having dusted of the Suit (one of the benefits of running your own business is that I don’t have to wear a suit too often!) we popped over to Glasgow for the afternoon.
The award ceremony was held at the (Read more)

After searching the internet looking for a birthday present for a dear friend, I came across the most fantastic table cloth!
If you are one of these PVC table cloth users, there is now hope. A very clever Norwegian designer, Kristine Bjaadal has come up with the most brilliant invention, A patterned table cloth that soaks (Read more)