Jilly McCord Cooks

11/11/2025

Another year of cooking for all kinds of occasions. Love bringing people together for fun and celebrations. If you have an event in mind and would like me to pop by and cook, please get in touch. We need something to look forward to in these dark November days!

15/08/2025

Two lovely little small plate recipes for a summer bite to share:

- For the Slow roasted tomatoes on the vine, whipped goat’s cheese, pesto and rocket
- celeriac remoulade and prosciutto crudo

Slow Roasted Tomatoes and Goat’s cheese

- set your oven to 140C
- take some cherry tomatoes on the vine, a few garlic cloves, thyme and drizzle generously with olive oil. Season.
- roast until the tomatoes are soft but have not popped. Cool until room temperature.
- take a roll of soft goat’s cheese and beat with a spoonful of creme fraiche or cream until soft. Add a good few grinds of black pepper
- take a plate and spread the goats cheese mix. Top with tomatoes, some rocket, and drizzle with olive oil from tomatoes and pesto (optional)

For the remoulade:

- use a food processor to grate half a celeriac (or do by hand)
- in a separate bowl, mix 3 tbsps of mayonnaise with two creme fraiche. Add a tsp Dijon mustard, chives and a squeeze of lemon juice.
- combine with the grated celeriac and season.
- plate with some good quality. Italian ham and enjoy with crusty bread.

29/07/2025

Hope to see you at Inverleith Park in Edinburgh on Friday for the super fun . My demo is in the chef’s theatre at 5.30pm where I hope to give you some lovely summer recipe ideas. Festival on all weekend and see discount code above to get 20% off the ticket price. Music, drinks, amazing food and a great vibe - see you there!

25/05/2025

Brilliant day yesterday at Kinross summer market eating, drinking and doing a food demo. Was really fun to join forces with and compere one another’s demo. We made a pretty good team and hopefully we can finally get organised to put in a joint pop up dining event soon! Stay tuned for updates.

Big thanks to KLEO for all of their hard work to put the event on and tidy it all up at the end. Also, huge thank you to for donating a beautiful piece of ribeye steak for the demo - I made a spiced butter for the beef, some home made chilli sauce and herby salad and tzatziki, all served up in home made yoghurt flatbreads. Thanks Arngask Farm for the lovely herbs and salad leaves. The stall looked amazing and the produce delicious.

Hope everyone enjoyed the day and the sun even made an appearance.

23/05/2025

Was very sorry to miss the unveiling of the newly refurbished Kinross today, but grateful to receive a little goody bag of produce. Thank you to for procuring it! Some exciting new produce, especially in the fruit and veg aisles, and I can’t wait to try. 😁

23/05/2025

See you tomorrow! Lots going on and some great food and drink to get your teeth into. Weather starting to look like we might be lucky. 🤞🏻🍺⛅️

06/05/2025

Looking forward to sharing some summer recipes - hope to see a big turn out for what will be a great day! Fingers crossed the sun is still with us by then. ☝️😎🍺

Something new at the Spring Market on 24 May, a trial FOOD & DRINKS FESTIVAL! Come along to the Market Park and enjoy some fabulous Food & Drinks demonstrations in in the Beer Garden marquee from Jilly McCord Cooks. Sarah Rankin Cooks, Tyroshan Attidi Panagoda, Gin Laboratory, Cairn o Mohr Real Fruit Wines, Loch Leven Brewery and Pinko's Korean Street Food
The event is from 10am to 5pm. Come along and enjoy!