Heads are down in preparation for the upcoming summer exams but despite my preaching and begging, some teen members of the family are refusing to eat a good breakfast as they just can’t face it before 8am on a weekday morning. Fair enough. However, without a good start to the day, concentration levels will be…

This rustic dish feels like you should be serving it to a tribe of cold weather truffle hunters in Northern Italy – slow cooked and aromatic, it fills your house all day with the wonderful smells of lemon and chicken, leaving you free to get on with life. You can take this casserole out of…

We are in the grip of “the beast from the east” here in Somerset – a chill Siberian snow storm that has flattened the first flowers of spring and plunged us into temperatures of minus ten degrees. So, slow cooked beef seems like just the thing and I nipped to the wonderful butcher at Sheppy’s…