Chicken consommé – this chicken soup is beautiful and light, and has the most amazing amber hue.

Stollen – a beautiful rich fruit bread, filled with almond paste or marzipan and glazed with melted butter and icing sugar!

Great recipe for home-made chicken stock and chicken pot pies!

Eye Fillet (Beef Tenderloin)– here is an incredibly simple recipe for this delicious cut of meat.

Two truffle recipes for Christmas deliciousness!

Christmas wine soup – Traditional Hungarian recipe, sweet and creamy!

Dutch Christmas cookies that can be hung on the tree – get baking today!

Chargrilled pepper, eggplant and basil salad – perfect served with crusty white bread!

smashed new season potatoes with grilled asparagus, topped with a poached egg

asparagus, broccolini and barley salad – it is spring in New Zealand!

Home-made pizza – recipe for base, sauce and topping suggestions.

chewy chocolate chunk cookies – outrageously good!

incredibly more-ish olive, rosemary and lemon focaccia

unbelievably delicious espresso fudge

This crunchy, salty pistachio crumb is a great compliment to the sweet, tender rack of lamb.

Chilli chocolate brownies – perfect balance of sweet and heat!

Parkin is a type of ginger cake that originated in Northern England around the 18th century and isflavoured with ground ginger and treacle.

pickled onions – make now to store for christmas time.

Corn and courgette fritter stack

Little spiced banana cakes made with roast bananas, served with hot caramel sauce!

I am such a huge cupcake fan – something about the shape, the decoration, the miniature-ness of them is just so appealing.

The classic combination of pears, red wine and mascarpone is built upon by the addition of heady spices, the result being quite delicious!