Badabing Badaboom….Eating Fish Makes You Smile

Posted on April 26, 2017May 9, 2017 by smokedbyewe

26 Apr

Fish and Seafood isn’t just utterley delicious but is a real power up for our bodies at this time of the year.

Eating fish actually makes us Happy! Salmon is an amazing source of Omega-3, you can see below on our clever infographic. Benefit central!! And full of the cheeky little”Happiness” secret agent

Every time we eat oily fish, Salmon, Trout, Tuna, Mackerel, Kippers our body gets a super hero hit of Vitamin D. Although the best source of this Little mood enhancer comes from exposing our bodies to a little sunshine. At this time of the year Vitamin D levels from the Sun are pretty low or non existent on our Latitude. Coincidentally we are on a Latitude 57.8 which is higher than Moscow, the same as Gothenburg Sweden & Hudson Bay Canada. We eat lots of fish here!!

So by putting a little fishy on your little dishy, you get all of these benefits and a Big Fat Smile.

Visit our Fine Food Emporium here: Make me Smile

Happy 2018…..Ready to Rumble??

Posted on January 8, 2018 by smokedbyewe

08 Jan

Happy New Year to you all, we hope that you had Fun that was Funny & Smoked Salmon that was Yummy. Thank you for all your good wishes and stunning pictures, always to fabulous to hear that smokey goodies deliciously enjoyed!! Happiness & intrepid adventures for the year ahead and of course……..

May all your Buns be Iced….. Your Disco Balls Twinkly…..

And all your Salmon Smoked……by us X

Waiting in Vain……no way !!

Posted on December 15, 2017December 15, 2017 by smokedbyewe

15 Dec

No more waiting in vain all your smokey fishy orders & gifts are being despatched by your most favourite smokey Christmas elves….. so be prepared to Lively Up Yourself for Christmas. Lets Dance?????

You Dancin?

You Askin?

I’m Askin!

Then I’m Dancin!!!!!!!

We have now closed our online orders for Christmas & New Year Delivery 2017. If you really really super need some of our fabulous smoked salmon or have a great story or look like Daniel Craig then call me!! Maybe we can indeed help or we could just go dancing…………..???

You can of course order all our delicious fish for late gifts or thank you’s. We will be despatching more smokey goodies out to ewe on Jan 8th 2018.

Happy Birthday to You Robert Burns

Posted on January 23, 2017January 23, 2017 by smokedbyewe

23 Jan

ROBERT BURNS 1759 – 1796

Happy Birthday Robert Burns, a celebration of your great life, fairly short lived at 37 yrs. Your work, has to be Scotlands most famous with ballads, romantic songs and ponderous poems.

The first Burns Supper was in July 1802 on the fifth anniversary of his death. Nine of his closest friends met at the cottage in Alloway in celebration of his life. The evening was a triumph and so it turned into a firm date in the diary, this time celebrating his birth on 25th January.

Just a really fabulous reason to have a bit of a party in late dark January. Now we are all over our food & alcoholic comas of Christmas…..So lets go again and have a riotious & fun supper with laughter & poems.

No hard or fast rules here ………. although the running order usually works like this:

Host say’s a few words, everyone sits and the Selkirk Grace is said, starter eaten Smoked Salmon a good option here. Haggis piped in (handy to have a clever piper as BFF) the host preforms Address to a Haggis, all toast and haggis is served with a good stab of your trusty Skean Dhu, usually kept in your right hose (stocking/sock). A couple of Burns recitals preformed then the important bit, toast to the Lassies. All rounded off with Auld Lang Syne, no hard fast rules, jokes, poems, dancin all a great option.

Invite friends & family….. folk you like.

The Supper is large amounts of Haggis, Neeps (Swede) & tatties (mashed potato) all washed down with Whisky………so hasta la vista to Dry January & Hello to a meaty fun feast with carbs for China.

Happy Birthday to you Robert……X

Address to a Haggis

poem

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, 
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
       Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
       As lang 's my arm. 

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
       In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
       Like amber bead. 

His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
       Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
       Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
       Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
       Bethankit hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
       Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
       On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
       His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
       O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
       He'll make it whissle;
An’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
       Like taps o' thrissle.

Ye Pow'rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
       That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
       Gie her a Haggis!

Robert Burns

Christmas 2017 274

May your Christmas Be gin or Tea??!!!!

Posted on December 23, 2016December 23, 2016 by smokedbyewe

23 Dec

We wish you a very Merry Christmas all bundled up with lots of happiness. All our smoked salmon is now your smoked salmon. Thank ewe.

Time for us all here to relax in front of our hot log burner’s with a roaring husband/wife and have a cup of Tea…… or most likely a fierce gin.

See you in 2017 XXXXXX

Panic Button call us on the Bat Phone

Posted on December 16, 2016 by smokedbyewe

16 Dec

Need Smoked Salmon for Christmas????

Don’t panic, there is still time you can still order our Award winning smoked salmon & scrumptious gifts in time for Christmas.

You can order online Fine Food Emporium or just give us a call on the Bat Phone at Smoked Salmon HQ.

Meanwhile back to the Bat cave to pack your superhero salmon…..

Do you have any better Batman jokes????

If Batman was a tree, he’d be Spruce Wayne.

What did Batman do when he went shopping?
Got ham.

Scandi licious for Christmas… Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!

Posted on November 16, 2016November 28, 2016 by smokedbyewe

16 Nov

Mamma Mia, a marriage made in heaven with our smoked salmon new from our friends at Scandi Kitchen, Vouslez vous!!

Wild swimming…. in the fast lane.

Posted on November 14, 2016November 16, 2016 by smokedbyewe

14 Nov

Sunday mornings…….. Highland stylie rain, shine or biting Westerly gale, Janette our database supremo dons her wetsuit and braves the elements with other like minded highland folk. Loch Ewe swimmers

Love this image taken by Stan McDonald end Oct, just off the Boom beach. Usually a totally empty expanse of open water……

Then the navy arrived.

Summer Sunday swimmers

Hot & Smokey from Dry Hill Kitchen

Posted on October 4, 2016October 5, 2016 by smokedbyewe

04 Oct

This is what our friend Lesley Anne Rowley does with our scallops in her Cotswold kitchen……. its sublime. Makes for a perfect Friday night supper with the one ewe love, try it?????

Here is the smoked scallop Risotto Recipe from Dryhill Kitchen

2/3 people

3 large handfuls of Carluccio’s carnaroli rice.

1 pack of ‘isle of ewe ‘smoked scallops, roes removed and sliced .

1 leek cut into thin rings

1 tablespoon of olive oil

1 cup frozen peas

1 pint of chicken stock [ preferably home made]

zest of 1/2 a lemon

1 tablespoon of lemon juice

1 tablespoon of flat leaf parsley chopped and a sprig for garnishing

1 sprig of fresh mint , finely chopped.

A Drizzle with chilli oil before serving [optional]

Fry the leeks in the olive oil until soft , add the rice stir and cook for 1 minute.

Add the heated stock gradually , 1 ladle at a time during the cooking over a medium heat allowing rice to absorb stock in between ladles.

Half way through the cooking process add the rest of the ingredients, keep stirring , test the bite on the rice to cook to perfection , slightly al dente should take around 20 mins.

Experience Dryhill ,a stunning and unique place to stay in the cotswolds.

Flying High

Posted on October 1, 2016October 4, 2016 by smokedbyewe

01 Oct

Is it a bird, is it a plane or is it Johnathan Livingstone Seagull????…Nope a drone’s eye view of us on the shore of Loch Ewe. Come & see for yourselves, Oct is a fabulous month to visit the North West Highlands. The best month for a genuine Jackson Pollockesque sunrise or sunset, the amazing Aurora Borealis,its the season for venturing out into the night in your jim jams for a peak at mother nature at her best. Check out https://www.aurora-service.eu/ this gives a really great guide to when you may get a glimpse. . Ultimately the midge factor………. hasta la vista Midges!!