Ingredients For the cookies: 125g unsalted butter, softened 175g soft brown sugar 50g caster sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 orange, zest...

Ingredients: 400g plain flour 75g unsalted butter, cold and cubed 50g porridge oats 75g dried morello cherries 80g golden marzipan,...

Ingredients: 50g porridge oats 40g jumbo oats 400ml oat milk 100g plain kefir 40g raisins 1 tbsp honey 1 Granny Smith, coarsely grated...

Ingredients (serves 2): 1 cauliflower, florets removed 140g plain flour 225ml milk (plant milk works too) 1tsp smoked paprika 1tsp dried...

Ingredients (serves 4): For the roasted rhubarb: 400g forced rhubarb, topped and tailed 100g golden caster sugar 1 orange, zested 1 tsp...

I think it’s fair to say my friends and family would have described little me as the life and soul of any party. Brimming with all the...

Sunday 14th February 2020. A love for pastry. A somewhat different Valentines day this year for all those happy couples around the world....

Wednesday 18th November 2020. A taste of Christmas. Christmas lunch is predictable. People expect sprouts, parsnips, pigs in blankets....

Wednesday 20th May 2020 The next best thing. I don't miss meat. A sirloin with peppercorn sauce in a local bistro or a pulled pork bap at...

Thursday 26th March 2020. Making do. Unsettling times. So much has happened since I last checked in with you all, back in January. What...

Friday 10th January 2020. I’ve always thought January is a tough month. In fact It’s probably my least favourite of the year. Work...

Wednesday 4th December 2019. A jolly way to start the day. It's such a treat to have your day start with a bowl of something which hasn’t...

Wednesday 20th November 2019. Bean there, done that. There’s a lot to be said for a tin of beans. I’m almost certain that the image which...

Monday 4th November 2019. Liquid Velvet. November 5th, 1605. The night Guy Fawkes' scandalous gunfire plot was foiled and the country...

Wednesday 9th October 2019. Letting go. Every September, usually on the second Monday of the month, the vast expanse of green that is the...

Monday 26th August 2019. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Like so many others who weren’t blessed with a fast metabolism and an...

Tuesday 20th August 2019. Mazes of maize. Anyone who knows me will know how much I loath and struggle in the heat of deep summer. Nearly...

Thursday 1st August 2019. Food of the Pharaohs. Harissa, ras el hanout, berbere. Most keen home cooks will have come across these...

Tuesday 9th July 2019. A Jar of Garnets. 1785. Napoleon offers a generous reward to any man who can invent a way of preserving large...

Just like how I know Spring is in full swing with the first sighting of tender, forced rhubarb at the beginning of the year; there's no...