Oatmeal and Potato Soup

During the years 2000/01, I contributed to a number of programmes on Scottish radio. ‘Scottish Connections’ was broadcast live from the BBC’s Inverness studio. It was strange cooking on the radio, knowing that the listeners could not watch what I was doing. The radio ‘kitchen’ was a poor relation to the swish kitchen sets built for television studios and the many popular TV cookery programmes that appear on our screens, featuring celebrity chefs. It consisted of a trestle table, an electric