Welcome to the website and Blog for Braehead Manse on the Scottish Orkney island of Westray. The Orkney islands archipelago is located North East of Scotland, just off the coast of John O’Groats. Westray is located to the North West of the group. More details can be found here.
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Currently we have limited space and our plans have been significantly affected by the curtilage rules for listed buildings. So our plan to start accepting paying guests from Easter 2011 maybe affected. Please refer to the Visitors Page for full and current details. I had been looking for an Onion Bhaji recipe for quite some time. There are plenty around, but I needed one that used easy to obtain ingredients on my Scottish Island and they had to taste good. This one is modified by me from one I found on the Internet and uses readily available ingredients. Things over the last few weeks have moved onward, this is a short update of what has been going on…. Here in Westray, Orkney, it is pretty difficult to get hold of this here. The local shops very rarely stock this and it is generally a ferry trip to Kirkwall. And even then the choice is limited to the pre-sliced stuff available only from the supermarkets. So we have decided to cure our own. Here is our instructions. Remember this is still work-in-progress, but I will update as time goes on. Continue reading Recipe: Prosciutto Style Cured HamGood news. Finally I managed to find a supplier who would ship me an aluminium mast just about long enough to use for the weather station. CPC had a mast just about long enough and I hope strong enough to survive the gales here, without charging me any extra. Here is a recipe that I have modified from the a recipe from the Hairy Bikers’ Family Cookbook – Mum Knows Best! to suite my own needs and tastes. Good news. We have finnaly exchanged and completed on our property in Surrey. We are now free of our chain to the south and can finally moved onward here in Westray. Here is a recipe that I modified from the Internet to suite my tastes.  Papa Westray I have been employed by one of the local builders here to assist in the upgrade of water supplies to the small next door island (Papa Westray), known locally as ‘Papay’. This is a very major upgrade to their water supply, which is being funded by various grants. And should keep me busy for several more months (on and off). Here is one of my own recipes put together with some bits one Sunday after noon. This is a simple recipe, just multiple the ingredients by the number of portions required. The preparation time in minimal. Basically a ‘Papiot’ just means cooked in paper. If you don’t have have cooking parchment paper, you can use foil instead.  Spitfire I was in Kirkwall on Thursday and Friday last week for an interview. On Thursday evening, Lin and I were out walking around Kirkwall in the warm summers evening. While we were walking along the main pier at Kirkwall, it started to get rather busy. |
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