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Fritters – packed with veggies, enhanced with cheese, flavoured with herbs or spices and pan-fried until crispy – are a brilliant way of introducing more plants into your diet.  They are also incredibly versatile and a great way to reduce food waste - you can make...

There’s something truly exciting about the arrival of blood oranges which are at their best in February.  Their rosy hued flesh brings a welcome bit of colour during the cold, dank days of winter. But they don’t just look lovely, they taste amazing too. A bit sweeter...

Put your leftover sprouts to good use in this crunchy, tangy and refreshing coleslaw. I threw this coleslaw together a few Christmases ago to use up a leftover bag of brussels sprouts and generally clear out the fridge in the days after the big day, and it has now...

Like just about everyone else, we bought a pizza oven during Covid which got a lot of use then, but has been languishing in the garden, unused for the last couple of years.  I decided to dust it off this week and tried out a new pizza dough recipe which turned out to...

This winter feels particularly cold and damp, not to mention interminable!  Everyone I meet at the moment seems to be battling one of the many bugs doing the rounds or slowly recovering from one.  Whichever side of the sickness fence you find yourself on, this punchy...

By now, most of us have taken onboard the health message that we need to eat less meat and more plants. However, it can be easy forget that “plant” doesn’t only mean fruits and vegetables, but also the wider world of pulses, peas & legumes, nuts, and those little...

This summer I’ve been doing a lot of picnics for clients and I’ve concluded that the criteria for good picnic food is a little different to other events.  You need to ensure that everything is easy to eat alfresco and offers plenty of variety for guests to choose...

With the King’s Coronation on May 6th just days away, your thoughts might be turning to what to make for your street party or the Coronation Big Lunch on May 7th.  If so, I’d urge you to have a go at royal chef Mark Flanaghan’s Coronation Quiche which is the official...

Over the Christmas break I invested in a new waffle maker.  With all the family at home, American style pancakes proved a popular breakfast – popular enough to get the young adults out of bed before lunchtime.  Waffles, it turned out, were an even more effective alarm...

Until the record-breaking heatwave hit the UK in July, I’d never been that keen on Gazpacho.  When friends raved about the chilled tomato and vegetable soup from Spain, I didn’t get the appeal, and I was certainly never tempted to order it in a restaurant.  All that...

With the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend just around the corner, your thoughts may well be turning to baking something delicious for your local street party.  If, like me, you don’t make cakes all that often, finding a reliable recipe that’s truly foolproof and will...