Flapjacks

Fresh flapjacks on a somewhat bleak afternoon

Sunday roast

A good chicken, roasted with lemon and garlic. Put some carrots and shallots in the pan about 45 minutes before it was done, which really helped the gravy making. Served with new potatoes and spinach.

Lunch in Chinatown

Lunch at the Yming. Started with sesame prawn toast, cauliflower and prawns in spiced salt, spring rolls and seaweed

Followed by aromatic crispy duck

Main course was chicken in hot sesame sauce, pork, mixed veg and rice

Followed by a lychee mix

I'd definitely recommend it. Food was (for central London) very good value, location was central and the service was great.

Saturday Breakfast

Granola with natural yoghurt and blackberries

Toad in the hole

Toad in the hole, made with Lincolnshire sausages

As you can see I also added some cooking apples, cored and sliced into thick wedges, which worked really well

Lunchtime salad

Wholewheat fusilli with mozzarella, basil, tomato and plenty of extra virgin olive oil

Pasta for dinner

Wholewheat pasta with tomato, spinach and goats' cheese

Weekend in the country

Baking chocolate cookies

Leg of lamb - I started by inserting anchovies, rosemary and garlic

Then smeared with an anchovy butter, and roasted in a tin with white wine, garlic and a carrot

Sunday was brown trout, oven-steamed with fennel, shallots, white wine and lemon

Dinner with work

A good dinner at Beales hotel in Hatfield. Started with a seasonal pumpkin soup.

Followed by belly of pork with a pancetta and potato mash with roasted tomatoes.

Cooking Apples

Freshly picked huge cooking apples

Fish supper

Monkfish in parma ham with crushed new potatoes and spinach

Cheese

I liked the colour. It's blue red leicester.

Beef again

Lots of roast beef left for Sunday lunch - with dauphinoise potatoes, green beans and redcurrent jelly

Roast beef etc.

A fantastic rib rack of beef

Roasted for a few hours with garlic, potatoes and red onions

Served with courgettes, yorkshire pudding and a red wine gravy

A trip to Ikea

Meatballs, chips and lingonberry jam

Daim cake