Welcome to Richard’s Kitchen

Scottish-born, Australian-based home cook with a passion for global flavours and an ever-growing cookbook collection. From traditional Scottish recipes to fresh Western Australian produce — join me in the kitchen.

Welcome to Richard's Kitchen

Pull up a chair If you’d told 20-year-old me — standing in a Glasgow kitchen, learning to make my mum’s stovies — that I’d one day be cooking in the Western Australian sun with a cookbook collection that’s threatening to take over the house, I’d have laughed. But here we are. This blog is the natural next step for someone who loves three things: cooking, collecting recipes, and talking about both. My shelves groan under the weight of everything from well-thumbed Scottish classics to Australian seafood bibles, Greek taverna cookbooks, and far too many Ottolenghi titles. I cook from them all, and I have opinions. ...

3 August 2026 · 2 min · Richard Dorrans