image from istockphoto This is a sad post for me to write. I'm about to lose one of my oldest and closest friends  (I'll call he...

Last week  on the  Great British Bake Off , the contenstants made their own rough puff pastry for a Tarte Tatin. I vaguely remember making...

© When I was asked to review Good Natured salad products, my first thought was to test them out in a Greek salad, having recently come ...

I'm getting a bit bored of a certain well-known competitive cooking show, as it's becoming too competitive, too 'profession...

The law of averages should have meant that our third festival of the year was a dry one, having been to two wet and muddy festvals earlier...

Baking Mad asked if I would like to test out another one of their recipes, this time using Silver Spoon Homegrown sugar, which is the ONL...

© I make quite a lot of bread using my bread machine, but I haven't got round to blogging many of my recipes, mainly because home ma...

© This is a recipe for a kind of spicy version of baked beans, using the original  Reggae Reggae Sauce  (as I had an opened bottle which...

© This is a posh, dinner party version of my roasted vegetables with halloumi recipe. I think it looks much prettier sitting in a stack...

© This is a nice, summery dish, which goes well along-side barbecued foods or as part of a buffet or meze. Serves 4-6 as a side-salad ...

© I found  Orgran No Egg   on special offer recently, so I bought some to test it out and review it; One box of  No Egg  costs around £2...

© This is my twist on a classic carrot and coriander soup, which I've called sunshine soup due to it's colour.  I used various ...

When the RSPCA asked me if I'd be interested in helping to raise awareness of their new Hay Fever campaign, I jumped at the chance (g...

© This dish came into being as I had a whole punnet of chestnut mushrooms that needed using up and couldn't think what to make. I in...

OK, I'll admit it, I'm a bit of a folky. Now, I know that isn't  cool or awesome or sick or whatever the correct term is th...