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Celebrate the joy of Scotland's larder with recipes, reviews, tips and delicious ideas!

Helping you get the best from Scotland's wonderful natural larder with weekly recipes, reviews, tips and delicious ideas from some of Scotland's top chefs!

The Kitchen Café: 04/07/2012

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04/07/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Café, 04/07/2012

Weekend cooking, friendship cakes, communal eating in restaurants and simple lemon posset!

Investing time in weekend cooking and the pleasures and pitfalls of communal eating in restaurants, plus find out how the Kitchen Cafe team fared when they made friendship cakes!

Food writer Catherine Hill talks to Pennie Latin about the importance of investing more time in weekend cooking. Whether it's planning for a weekend away, entertaining friends at home or just feeding the family Catherine shares her ideas for easy Friday night food, more elaborate Saturday dishes and great Sunday lunches.

The culinary equivalent of a chain letter, the Friendship Cake is doing the rounds in kitchens up and down the country. Requiring to be fed and nurtured for several days, would you be up to the task if one was passed on to you? Find out how The Kitchen Cafe team got on when they all had a go - with varying degrees of success!

When eating out most of us probably go to a restaurant or cafe with friends or family but how would you feel about sharing a table with complete strangers?! Dan Holland speaks to the owners of a new Edinburgh restaurant to find out why they are actually encouraging communal dining...

Chef Michael Smith makes a simple but delicious lemon posset.

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