I think perhaps I forgot I had a blog, or at least I haven’t really had time to have one recently. I've been cooking easy 'go to...

Herring have a long historical connection with the North East of England. Originally the small scale exploitation of an abundant local resou...

The allotment looks somewhere near normal, well the most normal it has looked since I got it two years ago, by normal I mean tidy, a bit tid...

So I'm sat in my house wearing five layers, I also have gloves on, and a scarf, I would put a hat on but people can see me from the stre...

This is the first cassoulet I have ever made, and apart from the fact that it was totally delicious, it also produced meals for about three ...

We took a little trip over to the Lake District this weekend to check out its autumn colours. We were greeted by golden beech hedges, rain,...

My stall at Autumn Graze was full of tarts... I don't mean my sister and the Blonde... more onion, gruyere, chorizo, spinach, apple and...

The Lake District was beautiful and sunny on Friday evening, sitting in the quiet of the valley watching the deer with their new bambi'...