A simple pasta dish

Olive oil and garlic

Chopped plum tomatoes. I cook them down for about 30 minutes until they are sweet and jam-like

Served with orecchiette

And with a nice, light lambrusco

Dinner at Konstam

Started with proscuttio and melon

Followed by a truly excellent pork chop with cabbage and spatzle

The menu goes to great lengths to stress it's local sourcing - very topical

Fishcakes for tea

New variety of fishcakes - Tesco finest* wild alaskan salmon. MSC, which is good, and tasty too. Served with the rest of the jersey royal new potatoes, and a dressed salad

Hamburger Union

Hamburger Union. A double bacon cheese burger with chips. Adequate, if a little overpriced.

A light dinner

Supper at Tas in Borough. Halloumi, an aubergine dish, and a nice garlicky cucumber and yoghut dish

Sunday lunch

Chicken, sausages in bacon, carrots in wine and thyme, courgettes, jersey royal new potatoes and gravy

Bread and butter pudding

Dinner at friends'

Started with a tricolore salad

Tasty lasagne

Winter fruits with channel island cream to finish

Lunch

Sourdough loaf with wensleydale, blue brie and tomatoes

Dressed crab - very fresh - with toast and mayonnaise

Strawberries

Local sourcing competition

An enjoyable morning of local shopping (albeit not that low on food miles) as follows:

Bag of carnaroli rice from Carluccios
Jersey royals, vine tomatoes, courgettes, carrots and english strawberries from the market
Spanish olives from the olive stall
Wensleydale and blue brie from the cheese man
Sourdough loaf from the bakers
Dressed crab from the fishmongers
Label Anglais chicken, chipolatas and streaky bacon from the butchers

Competition time - prize to the person able to guess the complete price of the shopping via the comments section. Competition closes Monday 6pm BST. Good luck!

Carbonara for tea

I could eat this every Friday. It has the right combination of speed and luxury. Here I've mixed three egg yolks with some double cream, parmesan and black pepper. I'll add that to the cooked pasta with some slowly-fried pancetta to finish the dish.

The carbonara. The best bit is eating the stuck on bits of crispy pancetta from the bottom of the pan when all the rest is gone.

Green salad with a balsamic dressing

Summer supper

A great improvised starter. Prawns and asparagus in a garlic and lemon sauce. I stir fried the asparagus in a little olive oil for about 3 minutes, then added some halved (lengthways) prawns, thinly sliced garlic and lemon juice. Stir fried for another minute then served. Really fresh tasting.

Sainsbury's goats' cheese and caremalised onion filled pasta. Very nice, but with a disconcerting reminder of cheese and onion crisps

Chinese food

Egg fried rice, beef with green peppers in a black bean sauce, chicken with water chestnuts and cashew nuts, and beansprouts with chinese mushrooms

Pizza

Hot meat pizza with a lazy salad

Soup

Dull but worthy leek and potato soup for tea. Enlivened with a glass of beaujolais, but otherwise unremarkable

Lunch with friends

Eating outside because the weather was so nice - chilli with a baked potato, cheese and an artichoke salad

Salad recipe was requested, so here we go:

- Take a jar of artichoke hearts marinated in olive oil
- Chop them up, and add them and the oil to the bottom of a salad bowl
- Add the juice of one lemon, salt and pepper, then mix and leave for about 15 minutes
- Then add about 20 basil leaves, chopped, and some green, firm lettuce
- Toss, and shave plenty of parmesan on top
- Taste, and add more olive oil, lemon juice and salt to taste

Amazing key lime pie for pudding

And some elegant fairy cakes to finish

Lunch in the park

Lunch bought from Borough market and eaten in Hyde park - a rare beef, rocket and ciabatta sandwich, with a bag of salt and vinegar crisps and a braeburn apple

Dinner out in town

A good dinner at Andrew Edmunds. Started with a simple yet very fresh dressed crab, with some nice Chablis

Followed with an excellent NZ Pinot Noir - one of the nice things about the restaurant is that the markup on the wine seems remarkably low

With a main course of duck on a warm salad or pea shoots and roasted new potatoes. The duck was good, but the salad was poor - potatoes were a bit burnt, and too many peashoots for my liking

Dessert was strong - sticky toffee pussing with a glass of muscat