Old but not forgotten – easy, crowd pleasing prawn (or shrimp) cocktail

What do you do with leftover turkey (or chicken)? Pie. Easy as pie, and even includes trimmings.

Gingerbread House. It’s easier than you think to do this yourself – and what an achievement!

Slightly soft, chocolate truffles with a hazelnut centre. So easy to make, and a lovely gift for Christmas

White chocolate truffles for home-made Christmas gifts

super easy apple pastries with only 4 ingredients

deliciously gooey caramel sauce on a simple fail-safe date pudding. Everybody loves this…

Easy peasy roast chicken with savory herb and lemon

Easy to make, cooks in 20 minutes, Saffron and Honey Breakfast Cake

This region has a famous salad, and I’d never heard of it before I arrived – but now I order it everywhere.

Za’atar is both Arabic for Thyme, and also the name of a spice blend that includes thyme, marjoram, oregano, sesame, salt and sumac

It translates as spiced bread – but it has no yeast in it – it’s a bread like a banana bread, perfect fresh from the oven with butter