Food and Drink Specialist Rosalind Erskine chats to Scottish chef Tony Singh at The Scotsmans stand in Scotlands Larder at this years Royal Highland Show 2024
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00:00So, I'm Rosin Durskin, Food and Drink Editor at The Scotsman and I am here at the Scotsman
00:09stand in Scotland Larger with chef Tony Singh. Tony, how are you?
00:12I'm fantastic, how are you? Good, thank you. What have you been up to
00:16at the Royal Highland Show? So this is the fifth year I've been with Lidl.
00:20So I'm at the Lidl stand and we're cooking the best of Scottish produce as always.
00:25I think it's one of the great things with an international brand supporting local areas
00:32like you've got the best of Scotland, the things that they do for farmers, for the dairy,
00:38the meat, the fruit, strawberries, just the things that we've got.
00:42The fried fish, just so nice and lovely. So yeah, it's easy for me.
00:47I get given a brief on what they've got in season and I make up recipes and I normally
00:52make recipes that are live, being able to be completed live on the show.
00:57So they're simple, achievable, but very tasty.
01:00And what have you been cooking this time round?
01:02So we've had a smoked haddock on papillote with Asian flavour, so lovely smoked haddock.
01:09On the bottom we've got some sliced mushrooms, a bit of spinach, some courgettes.
01:14The haddock's then been marinated in some ginger, garlic and chilli, some vinegar, a little bit of light soy sauce
01:25and then cooked on papillote as a starter.
01:28And then the main course has been Scottish lamb leg steaks, which we've done a balsamic glaze,
01:33roasted Scottish Ayrshire potatoes and then charred onions with mustard and curly parsley.
01:41So a nice fresh summery stuff.
01:43Oh dessert, I nearly forgot.
01:45And the dessert we've done a clafoutis of summer berries.
01:49So we've got raspberries, strawberries, it's a almond batter with a little bit of marzipan,
01:55which is optional, I like it, I like eating nuggets with marzipan in there.
01:58And served with some lovely Scottish double cream.
02:01Yeah, which I went backstage and had some there just now.
02:03Did you get some?
02:04Yeah, it was really good.
02:05Good, and that's the thing, of course you're talking and we can't let people taste because of the allergens and what have you.
02:10It's a shame because normally you could put out samples and now you can't.
02:14We're trying to think of a way we can be quite fair to let people taste it because it's a bit of torture, eh?
02:20It's like being a pizza delivery guy, you can smell it but you can never taste it.
02:24So how do you enjoy the Highland Show? What do you think makes it special?
02:29The atmosphere always makes it special.
02:32It doesn't matter what weather it is people moan about, but it's good fun,
02:36touch wood we've had great weather so far.
02:38You get to meet people you see every other year normally or every year.
02:42I think that sense of community from all the farmers and people in the industry of food production,
02:48you see them get together, it's great.
02:50And for me, again, you get access to these amazing new dishes and products
02:55that people are making every year so it's a great window into what's happening in Scotland from LARVA.
03:00So do you walk around and try new things most years?
03:04Yes, I do walk around and try as much as I can.
03:07But because we're doing three demonstrations it's quite hard to get away.
03:12But when I do get a chance I'm down at the food hall always, always go up.
03:16It's good to see different street food traders as well.
03:18That's growing, the different things they do, it's always really good.
03:22And for people that are coming over the course of the next couple of days, where can they see you and when?
03:27I'm in the little tent. I'm on at 10, 12 and 2 tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.
03:33Nice. And what do you have coming up for the rest of the year?
03:36The rest of the year? Oh, so transmission date for Cooking with the Stars, 18th of July.
03:43So I'm on that. I've got my supper club.
03:46I've got a couple of charity gigs in London, hopefully cooking with Cyrus down in London as well.
03:51And I think Cyrus is coming up with a special Spiceman dinner as well.
03:55So, yeah, quite busy. And coming on Strand Podcast?
03:58Yes. No, no, definitely I'll come on Strand Podcast.
04:01Just tell me the street food, I'll be there.
04:04OK, well, what if you're cooking it?
04:06Oh, well, I'm not cooking, OK, that's fine. I can do that.
04:09Anything else that you want to?
04:11No, it's all good, thank you. Covered, excellent.
04:14Well, thank you very much. Thank you.