Bank Holiday Weekend BBQ Competition

Our Butchers Steven & Frank are looking for Blue Sky’s this weekend, as part of Quality Meat Scotland BBQ press campaign to promote Scotch Beef.

The first 10 Facebookers to spot the pictures in the Local and National Press, photograph it and post it on our Facebook page will win a BBQ Pack worth £10.99.

Snow or Sun BBQs are Fun.

Good luck

Don’t be an April Fool this Easter

Get 10% off your Click & Collect order before April 1st

We’ll even give you a FREE Easter Egg when you come in to store to pick up your order, just our way of saying Happy Easter!

Easter is always a busy time of year for us, many people like to make the most of spending time with family and friends and require something a bit more special in the way of meat to feed them all.

Lamb is always very popular at Easter and usually signals the start of the spring lamb season. At Yorkes we acquire only the most tender, succulent spring lamb for our customers, browse our on-line store or pop in to one of our shops

Beef always proves to be a popular choice too, and often for Easter it takes the form of a rib or sirloin joint to impress the family!

Whatever your preference for a mouth watering Easter family feast, we will have exactly what you’re looking for here at Yorkes of Dundee!

Easter Lamb Recipe

Treat your Mum this Mother’s Day

What better way to treat your Mum on Mothers Day than with a freshly prepared succulent Leg of Lamb dinner, using the best Angus Lamb from Yorkes

Order On-Line & Collect from Store

After much feedback from our customers, we have now launched our Click & Collect service. You can now place your order on-line and choose to pick it up from either our Strathmartine Road or Fintry shops, all you have to do is tell us the day you wish to collect your order by selecting a collection date during checkout.

The Bard

Around the world tributes to Robert Burns are held through the ritual of the Burns’ Supper. Originally started a few years after his death by a group of his friends and acquaintances, to honour his memory, the suppers are now celebrated annually on the date of his birth, 25th January. Here are the perfect ingredients needed to hold your very own Burns’ Supper.

Burns’ Night Menu

The centrepiece of any good Burns’ Supper menu is the iconic haggis, or as the bard himself described it, the ‘great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race’. You can buy this online from us or if you prefer, nip into either our Strathmartine Road or Fintry shops.

Traditional accompaniments to the haggis are neeps and tatties or as they are more commonly known – turnip and potatoes. These are normally served mashed. To save time during the preparation of your Burns’ Supper, why not try our Clapshot (ready-made neeps & tatties)

The haggis is already cooked and just needs some careful re-heating until it is piping hot. You can do this in the oven or the pan and for the less domesticated out there you can even do it in the microwave!

For a starter, you might consider a home-made Scots broth.

Finally, to round off your Burns’ Supper menu, pudding might consist of a traditional Clootie Dumpling or a classic cranachan.

Traditional recitals for your Burns Supper include the ‘Selkirk Grace’ and the ‘Address to a Haggis’.

Selkirk Grace

Some hae meat and cannae eat,
Some cannae eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit

Address to a Haggis

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race!
Aboon them a’ yet tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’a grace
As lang’s my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin was help to mend a mill
In time o’need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut you up wi’ ready sleight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin’, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit! hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad make her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckles as wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash;
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ blody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whissle;
An’ legs an’ arms, an’ hands will sned,
Like taps o’ trissle.

Ye Pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer
Gie her a haggis!

Come Dine with Channel 4 via Yorkes of Dundee

The Channel 4 hit show Come Dine With Me is back for a new daytime series.

Over five days, five strangers, from all walks of life, take turns to host the perfect dinner party for each other. At the end of the week the best host wins a £1000 cash prize!

If you are passionate about cooking and think you have the culinary skills to win that £1000 Cash Prize, then enter your details in the form below for your chance to be one of the famous five.

Entrants must be over 18 years of age in the Dundee area. Shoot dates are 18th March – 22nd March 2013.

Best of luck!

WATCH OUT FOR SANTA IN A CHRISTMAS PIE POD THIS FRIDAY

Merry Christmas from Yorkes of Dundee

This Friday, 23rd November will see our Pie Pod get all Festive with the turning on of the Christmas Lights in Dundee City Centre.

The Christmas Pie Pod  will be out and about in the City Centre, laden with hot tasty pies, perfect for a night out in the cold. What makes these pies taste even better (if that is possible) is that we will be, yet again, giving them away for free!

WIN A FESTIVE TURKEY OR STEAK PIE

If you spot Santa in the Christmas Pie Pod, all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning either a 4.5kg Festive Turkey or 3lb Festive Steak Pie, is LIKE US on Facebook. Oh, if you have a camera phone, take a picture and upload it too!

Christmas is better with Yorkes of Dundee!

Last weekend saw the launch of our Yorkes Pie Pod throughout Dundee and what a sucess it was, with many locals enjoying our famously delicious steak & gravy pies for free!

Our Festive Steak Pie competition to win one of 5 Festive Family Size 3lb Steak Pies has now closed.

A huge congratulations and well done to our 5 Festive Steak Pie Winners, who will each receive a Festive Family 3lb Steak Pie this Christmas:

The Winners are:

Karon Ralston
Denise Adamson
Lucinda Fraser
Nicola Philip
Steven Guild

Well done and we hope you’ll all enjoy your Steak Pies.

Look out for our upcoming Pie Pod extravaganza, coming soon!

Click here to see the Pie Pod Gallery

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Rocca Bar & Grill Awarded 3 AA Rosettes

Rocca’s food quality was assessed by the AA inspectorate, who awards AA Rosettes to establishments demonstrating mastery and excellence in their field.

The achievement of three Rosettes makes the Rocca Bar & Grill one of only 25 restaurants in Scotland considered worthy of the award and means that Rocca is in the top 10% of restaurants in the UK.

Congratulations!