Recipes

– with anthocyanins? Well, to make a wicked, chocolate indulgence just a little more healthy, it simply HAD to contain beetroot didn’t it?! Please don’t be put off if beetroot…

I love experimenting and adapting recipes and though I have been adding nuts – and all sorts of stealth ingredients – to my flapjacks for years now, it’s normally a…

Preserve a summer veg’ If you grow courgettes and suddenly find your plants are producing faster than you can consume, this is a great way to preserve a few.  Even…

This is a simple twist on a regular lemon drizzle cake, but swapping half the flour with pistachio nuts that have been processed to a fine crumbly nut flour.  I…

Let’s face it, porridge is like a blank canvas, full of potential, to serve as a great ‘support’ but it needs creative help! Variations on a theme of porridge toppings…

I’m not above using the odd jar of convenient, ready-prepared sauce, especially when a meal has to be produced quickly, so I always keep a jar or two of M&S…

The ‘Mediterranean Diet’ is now well established as the healthy way to eat if you want to lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes.  Based on the traditional cuisine…

Anyone who follows me on Instagram will know how much I love my home-made pestos! So finding huge swathes of wild garlic growing in the Devon hedgerows this spring was…

OK – hands up – confession time – I haven’t yet got into fermenting my own vegetables, it’s a topic I find regularly sinks down towards the bottom of my…

Mince pies are synonymous with Christmas, and great to have in store for visitors dropping in at Christmas. If you’re gluten-free you don’t have to miss out! This recipe more…