Rice flake breakfast bars lightly sweetened with maple syrup and apricot jam topping: a healthy option with lots of fibre.

Sweet puff pastry straws brushed with jam and sugar glaze, twice baked and still the easiest biscuits there are.

Simple and perfect grilled salmon fillet seasoned only with salt and olive oil.

Spring potato salad with radish, gherkins and very light mayo dressing – it’s the taste and flavour of a summer barbecue even in midwinter.

Metre-long cake, Polish metrowiec, is a two-tone plain and chocolate cake puzzle: sliced and then put together again! With jam!

Cabbage with bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms is a delicious main dish, served with plain pasta or potatoes.

Prawn Creole for two served with plain rice is my signature special main dish these days.

Baked sweet potato halves loaded with spicy black beans and Cheddar cheese: vegetarian lunch, snack or dinner, blissfully comforting.

Original Parker House bread rolls, created in the famous Boston hotel, soft and buttery.

Pan fried turkey breast steaks coated with crushed pink peppercorns, with an easy anchovy cream sauce.

Leg of lamb can be slow roasted but this is the recipe for a leg of lamb on the bone cooked medium.

Best beer and Cheddar bread rolls, and this recipe is truly easy. Turning water into wine? Naah, beer into bread!

Best hot cross buns ever: wholemeal, with tons of raisins, piped crosses and delicious sticky honey glaze.

Mini meringue kisses with chocolate ganache filling. Pretty pink coloured meringue drops, filled with the nicest chocolate ganache.

Classic British milk chocolate digestive biscuits, just like McVities, only better.

Duck pastilla, a Moroccan pie made with filo pastry layers encasing leftover roast duck mixture filling, with onions and peppers.