Imam bayildi (‘the priest wept’) is one of the all time great, most delicious ways to eat aubergine/eggplant.

Here’s the thing, if you boil the sausages first before roasting in chianti, you’ll get rid of some of the fat.

This week it’s the chianti harvest. Young Chianti, (up to $20) is a great pizza and pasta wine, perfect with tomato sauces and spicy salami.

Focaccia is what you cook when you have time to spend in the kitchen, and you want to root yourself back in your home.

The juiciest late summer plums – perfect for plum cake and afternoon tea.

There are few more lovely things than an array of multicoloured heirloom tomatoes. Personally? I like them on homemade pizza.

Vodka infused cherry tomatoes and a splash of tabasco. Could this be the cutest ever bloody mary?

Bourbon cherries and cherry bourbon – what better way to use the abundance of cherries at the end of summer?

The ultimate chocolate birthday cake passed on by Jon’s mum and baked for every Roberts celebration.

Cinnamon buns adapted from an Amish recipe. It’s proper old fashioned cooking, with a gentle rhythm that can’t be rushed.

Peach and raspberry pie made after a trip to Amish country.