Lunch out

Lunch at Wholefoods in Kensington. An excellent blue cheese and beef salad.

Bacon sandwiches

Toasted wholegrain bread with mayonnaise, tomatoes, lettuce and bacon

Broccoli and cauliflower cheese

Steamed broccoli and cauliflower in a cheese sauce with bacon. Served with nice crusty bread.

The bacon was clearly the best bit

A weekend in Brussels

Lunch in Belga Queen. Started with an excellent lobster soup

Followed by steak, spinach and a pepper sauce

The restaurant was great, and I'd definitely recommend it, but the food wasn't fantastic

Dinner was more interesting - started with raw tuna rapped in nori on a beansprout and soy salad

Followed by giant crab claws with couscous and a beurre blanc

Another dinner at RSJs

I've been going to RSJs a few times a year for over a decade now, and I can't think of a bad meal I've had there. Started with smoked salmon, salmon eggs and caperberries

Followed by venison, spinach and mash

Finished with an orange and clotted cream ice cream

Risotto

Mushroom risotto

Salade de chevre chaud

Grilled goats' cheese toasts

On a green salad with a nice balsamic vinegar dressing

Guinea fowl for lunch

Getting the kitchen ready to cook

A nice guinea fowl, rubbed with olive oil, salt and pepper

Pot roasted with pancetta, celery and white wine

I strained and reduced the cooking juices to make a great gravy, and served with broccoli and goose fat fried potatoes

Fishy lunch

Peppered smoked mackerel with warm new potatoes, a green salad and a creme fraiche and horseradish sauce

A warming breakfast

Porridge with brown sugar, and honel and lemon tea

A healthy supper

Baked salmon, steamed rice and stir fried veg

Followed by a perfectly ripe mango

Pasta for tea

New pasta dish - wholewheat fusilli with olive oil, parsley, garlic and anchovies. Served with a green salad with a lemon juice dressing.

A light lunch

Grilled halloumi with a green salad and a lemon juice dressing. Much nicer than when I've eaten it out - the halloumi is at its best when its really hot and straight off the griddle

Smoked salmon

Tsar fillet of smoked salmon with blinis, creme fraiche and a herb salad

Birthday dinner

Another excellent dinner at RSJ's on the south bank. Started with a cep risotto

Then a really good sirloin with bearnaise

Finished with blackcurrent sorbet

Dinner at home

Champagne to start - really good bottle of Taittinger

Cooking a thai red curry

Thai red pork with fresh basil, basmati rice and steamed pak choi

Assorted conference centre food

Staying at The Node in Hertfordshire. Good food throughout, some examples here. A goats' cheese and caramalised red onion tart.

A berry parfait was excellent

A good tian of prawns and avocado

And a duck breast (slightly overcooked) on pak choi and mash