Marzipan and shortbread biscuit chocolate coated bars, made from scratch. Like Twix, only better; like Ritter Sport all best bars combined

Ice cream cones made from sweetened, layered filo pastry. Deliciously easy, and can be also filled with cream, mascarpone or custard.

Twice cooked pork fillet with mushroom sauce, inspired by Mark Bittman NY Times.

Homemade German pretzels, or Laugenbretzeln sprinkled with salt crystals, soft and chewy inside and brown glossy outside.

Date and walnut nougat meringues, the most exquisite sweets for all meringue, nougat, mashmallow and turrón lovers.

Carbonara pasta bake, with bacon, Pecorino and egg yolks.

Spicy, cheesy lentils bake, a superior vegetarian dish put together in 15 minutes. Baked cheesy lentils inspired by NY Times Cooking.

Oven baked rice with brown shrimp and green vegetables, crispy on the outside and fluffy in the centre.

Buttery loaf cake with dried apricot chunks and generous crumble topping.

Pork and smoky bacon meatballs with tomato flavoured bulgur wheat, a variation on Swedish, Italian and Moroccan meatball classics.

Serrano ham, salami and chorizo oven dried crisps are a wonderful snack; lean and mean protein to munch, not only for ketogenic dieters.

Chocolate sable biscuits with raw cocoa nibs and sea salt flakes.

Crispy pork mince, kidney beans and Romaine lettuce salad with mixed toasted seeds.

Semolina porridge with dried cranberries and a sprinkling of cinnamon, naturally sweet or with honey, it makes a nice change from oats.