New gnocchi dish

Making a tomato sauce

Adding spinach

Tomato and spinach, topped with gnocchi, marscapone and parmesan

Grilled until brown on top

Tasty lunch

Milan salami, parma ham, homegrown salad, tomato and great mozzarella.

All enormously tasty, and felt healthy too.

Friday curry

End of a very long week - chicken tikka masala

More fish

Salmon sushi box in London

Celebratory fish and chips

Monday night cod and chips

Tuna

Really good tuna dish. I cooked some potato rosti, and seared the tuna

Added chilli and garlic to the tuna, and a mixture of balsamic vinegar and soy sauce

Served with a coriander, cucumber and spring onion salad, and the reduced balsamic-soy mix

Greedy lunch

Scampi, chips and beans at the pub for lunch. I particularly likes the way they mixed it all together for me.

Lazy midweek dinner

Cold meats, tomatoes, gorgonzola. Tasty, and light on the washing up.

More steak

Some would (and do) say I eat too much steak. But it does taste good. Rump steak with a green salad tonight

Followed by raspberries and blueberries

Improvised pasta sauce

Pasta sauce. Improvised, but definitely one I'd repeat. Started by frying off little balls of sausagemeat in olive oil

In another pan softened onion and garlic, added tinned tomatoes, fresh cherry tomatoes, chilli sauce, tomato puree, wine, water and salt and pepper. Then added sausagemeat balls and simmered until it was all cooked.

Served with good fettuccine.

BBQ

Excellent barbecue at a friend's house

Brunch

Sausages, scrambled eggs and toast

Mushroom sandwiches

Roasting field mushrooms with butter, garlic, parsley and black pepper

20 minutes at 200ish

In a soft bap with lambs lettuce and a squirt of lemon juice

Friday lunch

Rib-eye steak, with home-grown salad in a mustard dressing, cherry tomatoes, dijon mustard and bearnaise sauce

St Marcellin cheese

Flapjacks

Oats, sugar, syrup and margarine

Thursday dinner

Really good, ripe charantais melon

With parma ham and a glass of Viognier

Waitrose shopping this week, so a weekend of fine food awaits

Choast

Cheese on toast, made with nice sourdough bread

Pizza for tea

Waitrose pizza

Mushrrom and marscapone

Also garlic sausage and ricotta