An Edible Voyage

November 2020 For all things smoked, you can't miss the Ullapool Smokehouse, a traditional smokery in the fishing village of Ullapool.  Using just salmon, salt and smoke, will you opt for malt whisky cold smoked salmon or heather honey hot roast salmon?  Whichever you go for, you'll be assured the highest quality combined with the distinctive flavours of Scotland.  For cheese lovers, I also highly recommend the very moorish oak smoked mature Scottish cheese. Find Ullapool Smokehouse on the edge of the town in the Morefield industrial estate.

November 2020 A cheese pantry was not what I expected to find down a track off the road between Inverness airport and the city, but a welcome find it was indeed.  Entering a small cafe and delicatessen selling all manner of crackers, oat cakes and chutneys, as well as cheese toasties, cakes and coffee, I had a fantastic view of the cheese production through the glass wall.  Then it got better - hidden in the corner of the deli is a door, through which I found myself in the most incredible cheese 'cave'.  Walls and walls of cheese, both locally made and from further afield, a real cheese lover's delight!  Some of the cheeses are made on the farm, such as the 12-15 month matured Connage Cheddar, and the Connage Gouda - a deliciously rich and creamy cheese with a flavour profile unlike Dutch Gouda due to differences in the grazing land.  Connage Farm also have a smokery.  Having never heard of a smoked brie before, I had to try it.  Firmer than traditiona...