This month, the Knockomie Hotel’s head chef Richard Burpitt  brings us: Slow Braised Featherblade of Beef Serves 6 to 8 Ingredients: 2kg featherblade 20g seasoned flour 10g butter 10ml vegetable oil 2 carrots sliced 2 onions sliced 4 cloves of garlic crushed 2 sprigs of thyme 2 bay leaves 250ml red wine 1 litre chicken or beef stock Method In a large …

We’ve teamed up with Forres-based garden centre and coffee shop Mackenzie and Cruickshank with a sizzling competition which will leave the lucky dad in your life with a smile on his face this Father’s Day. Aimed at children 12-years-old and under, they could scoop their main man this fantastic M&C BBQ and a Macbeth’s BBQ meat hamper worth a total of …

We love our pork here at Macbeth’s and we also love beer and whisky and what better way to enjoy these three delights than by putting them into one fine sausage. That’s right. Working with Forres-based brewer Seb Jones, owner of Speyside Craft Brewery, we have created the Pickled Pig Sausage, a combination of our finest pork with Seb’s new …

I got back from the wedding Sunday lunch time and I went out with my nieces, nephews and a cousin. It was a pretty horrid day again, wet and windy. We did a quick check round but all seemed fairly settled. We marked one lamb. On our way home we spotted a ewe my sister had concerns about.  She had …

Another busy day on the lambing field and it was sunny albeit a little cold too! It was just Dad and me on the morning round. It was all pretty quiet really, everything looked fairly content. We lambed one ewe, the lamb was coming the right way. It was big though so needed a wee bit effort to get it …

James, my brother, discovered one new lamb this morning – all was fine. Aila, Dad and I went round later in the morning but we forgot our lambing bag with all the tools required for marking so it was really just a check. We did a very rough count of the ewes with no lambs, roughly we have about 30 …

I woke this morning and the ground was white! It was a like a winter’s morning not spring! My brother did the morning shift again, there were three new lambs. Feeling down I went out later, everything seemed fairly quiet.  I was gutted to come across a dead lamb which we marked yesterday.  The poor wee lamb didn’t get a …

I thought yesterday’s weather was bad, today was worse! My brother did the early shift, there were three new lambs including one which he lambed. I put on an extra couple of layers of clothing and off I went to brave the weather. All the sheep were sheltering amongst the long grass so I didnt want to disturb them too …

In contrast to yesterday, today was not a good day for the little lambs to enter the world! It was bitterly cold with snowy showers. I went out with Aila this morning, Aila managed half way round then decided that actually she was a fair weather shepherdess and it was far more inviting to stay indoors, I didn’t blame her. …