muirestate

30/08/2024

🥂 🍾 THANK YOU MUM AND DAD! They came down and worked so hard the get the place ready!! Xx

29/08/2024

Yes! It’s on-line! Want to move to Callander, know anyone who does? Please share far and wide, much appreciated!! 😘

Beautiful and totally renovated, ready to move into, 4 bedroom house, kitchen diner, dining room, lounge, 2 double garage with electrics perfect for a word room, long driveway, mature garden. A perfect family home just 2 minutes walk from the High Street yet feels very secluded.

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Bracklinn Road, Callander, FK17 for £479,000. Marketed by Cathedral City Estates, Dunblane

25/07/2024

Before and after!

25/07/2024

Rock Cottage is almost done!! A few door handles, carpet to go down on the stairs and top 2 bedrooms (which we were lucky to get as Carpetright as you know have folded!), couple of mirrors, a few doors to shave the bottoms off and that’s it….sounds a lot but not really. We should be completely finnished in a week. 🤞 Here is a sneaky peak… If any one knows a family wishing to rent long term in Callander…. ☎️

25/07/2024

02/07/2024

Otto, our 7 year old stock stag looking very handsome!

26/05/2024

We’re almost fully booked. We have a 5 night stay at the end of July and 3 nights mid August. Get in touch for a stay with some discounts and complementary food cooked by me.

10/05/2024

What a fabulous bunch of guests we had this past week, 4 generations of a family travelled from Scotland, England, Singapore, South Africa and Australia for a post wedding celebration and a family get together. Muir Estate is the perfect setting for such an occasion. Cathy and her family kindly sent me their pictures so I could use, as I never have time to photograph my food when I’m doing a Chef & Shepherd Supper! We were thrilled to cook for them and we’re also glad they used all the facilities, pizza oven, hot tub, BBQ, our catered evening and fun was had taking part at the on-site clay pigeon shooting, maybe not the best shots were had, but much fun! We hope to see them again! Thank you!!!

10/05/2024

Muir Estate Wild Roe Buck. I’m really pleased with this butchery. 2 tenderloin fillets, 2 legs and a shoulder that I’ve taken the meat off to grind into mince, 2 pencil fillets, the whole neck and some meat from the ribs. It was a satisfying morning. Can’t wait to sell this succulent lean prime meat to our guests and the public. Generator is arriving in 4 weeks, we need a visit from the Coucil, and licences issued. Not long to go….. For now, it’s all for us!!! 😋

05/05/2024

Post Wedding C&S Supper. What a lovely evening! As usual time got away from us and we didn’t manage to photograph all the food so some are old pics.

Pre-Starter: Celeriac veloute and croutons

Starters: Orkney Scallops, Vegan Sweet Potato Tikki, Steak Tartar

Main: Braised Wild Venison Haunch, Stuffed Aubergines, Lamb Rack

Pre-Pudding: Homemade Raspberry Sorbet with champagne

Pudding: Green & Blacks Chocolate Cheesecake, Madagascan Vanilla Crème Brûlée, Brandy Snaps

The meat was from Falleninch farm just a few miles away and was delicious! I changed the sides for the lamb from the wintery roast tatties, parsnips and carrots to spring and summery balsamic roast peppers, steamed asparagus, onion rice and a chilli lamb jus. The sorbet was amazing with the help of my Ninja CREAMi, why have I not made this before!!

Thank you Cathy and family, it was lovely to cook for all of you!

16/04/2024

What a beautiful morning here .

12/04/2024

This was deliscious!!! Such a simple recipe from https://downshiftology.com/recipes/creamy-tuscan-chicken/

To save you trawling past all the adverts and crossing out of the pop ups here the recipe;

Put a little oil of choice in a frying pan. Season your 4 chicken breasts and sprinkle mixed herbs on both sides of chicken. Be lavish as the herbs will combine in the sauce. Fry for about 4 mins in each side until you get a nice golden colour. Take out and sit on a plate. NOTE: Best to not cook them all the way through as they still have to go in the sauce where they’ll cook some more.

In the same pan add a cup of white wine to deglaze the pan and let that cook down so there’s less liquid. Add a finely diced brown onion, 3 cloves of crushed garlic or a good sq**rt of garlic paste. Soften all that down for a few minutes then slice your sun dried tomatoes (I used sun blushed) and add to the pan and stir through. NOTE: you can youse baby salad tomatoes but you won’t get the flavour as ther is no stock so you need strong tomato taste. Don’t use tinned tomatoes as that’s a whole different dish.

Then add your baby spinach (the smaller bag) and let that wilt down. I added some of the oil from the sun blushed tomato tub, about a desert spoon. Once it’s wilted add your extra thick cream 300ml and I put about 2tbs double cream in to thin it out a little, I added almost the whole Sainsbury’s Parmesan Reggiano block of cheese (the 200g block). Think I had about a cm before the crust!! Grate it and add to the sauce and let it all combine and the cheese melt through. stiring so as not to stick to the pan. I cracked a load of black pepper in as I like pepper! I then put my chicken breasts back in with the juice from the plate and cooked on a medium-low heat for 5-10 mins until chicken cooked. Make sure to stir so sauce and onions don’t stick. If the sauce is a little thick add a dribble of water at a time and stir. No more cream as it’s rich enough. Add salt to your tastes.

Serve with plain boiled rice or pasta of your choice steamed green beans and tender stem broccoli. You want plain sides as the sauce is rich.

ENJOY!!! 🍅 🇮🇹

11/03/2024

Chef & Shepherd Supers, why not book one for your visit to Muir. This was a post wedding celebration with the Happy Bride and Groom. We were so busy we didn’t have time to take any more pictures but you can see our food in the website or in our posts. When it’s a special occasion it’s nice to have the day and night off from cooking! There is always someone who takes the brunt of it, and even if you love cooking it’s never relaxing especially for a large group. For more info go to our web page muir-estate.com or get in touch.

13/02/2024

That’s not a chopping board, this is a chopping board! So excited to get this beauty! First time I saw one was with . Fantastic piece of kit. The blue table top is solid chopping board. We just need power now and we’re good to go with our deer butchery service supplying locally to the public and restaurants.

19/01/2024

Gone for purple so I can use my cushions!

11/01/2024

New room layout. The twin room makes a really cosy super king en-suite!

06/01/2024

30/12/2023

What a lovely gift from one of my oldest and best chums (since we were 16) ….thank you Sarah Carter!! 😍

18/12/2023

BOOK NOW FOR 2024 Christmas and Hogmanay!!

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18/11/2023

Just a digital image but this is what the new en-suite should look like. I’ve still got a bit of Woodcroft House on my mind with regards to the tiles!! It’s a period house so think these will look great! Won’t have the unit on the wall as there is not enough room. Let’s wait and see the end result. At the moment it’s not nearly there as you can see!!

18/11/2023

A wee update on the project. So it’s been 8 weeks and we are off to a flying start. New pipe work upstairs and the walls were chased out downstairs in the back hall, shower room, kitchen and utility room and new en-suite to hide the pipes. Electrician has done a first fix In some of the rooms and the decorator has stripped the whole house top to bottom of lovely wood chip and textured paper. We’ve stripped out the utility room and kitchen. That was a joy! We just thought of my awful soon to be sister-in-law and it was punched and kicked, ripped out in no time! 😂 I cut my lady fingers and hands whilst taking the tiles off the wall, such a girl! I should have put on those things called ‘gloves’! Plasterer is in next week. The whole house needs done and I hate paper lining so we’re doing it proper! New windows hopefully arrive next week also. Kichen, shower, toilets etc ordered. We’re off for a bit of lunch now. Stay tuned for next update! 😂😂

17/11/2023

Japanese chicken ramen bowl tonight. Simple, low fat and really yummy! K**r Chicken and beef stock pots, finely slice fresh ginger, red onions, green and red chillis and garlic and add to a pot of simmering water about 11 ladles or so (no idea what that is in ml!! 😂 Then add a good shake of dark soy sauce, and 4 sachets of Itsu miso (you get them at Sainsbury’s). Let all that come to a simmer then put your uncooked eggs and raw chicken breasts in. Continue to simmer and take the eggs out after 8-10 minutes and the chicken 5 minutes or so later. Add your egg noodels and 4 minutes later when they are cooked you can plate up. Slice your chicken and eggs and place on the top with lots of fresh coriander and more fresh chilli. Yum Yum! Blew our heads off, we loved it!!

17/11/2023

My heart melts! 💕 🐾

15/11/2023

Scallops as a main…yum! Not available on Chef & Shepherd’s menu but I’m sure if you asked I would do it!

15/11/2023

Another scallop dish, this time the standard version on our Chef & Shepherd’s menu available at Muir Estate and a favourite i just love Orkney Scallops!!

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15/11/2023

Scallops, a favourite from the days and definitely a favourite on Chef & Shepherd’s menu available at Muir Estate. This was a dish I altered for a guest who didn’t like black pudding so I did a seared mini cauliflower steak, garlic cauliflower purée and crispy Serrano ham. Oh…and the pan fried Orkney Scallop!
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