Sunday lunch

Crisp chicken thighs on thyme and garlic potaotes, with a bit of sherry

Served with a green salad

Dinner party

Started with thinly cut Milano salami, with crushed rosemary potatoes and a green salad

Followed by slow roasted spicy belly pork, with steamed rice, and pak choi in an oyster sauce

Went well with a nice New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc

Boxing day lunch

Dauphinoise potatoes with salad and cold meats

Christmas Day

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, carrots, parsnips, roast potatoes, new potatoes, mashed sprouts and gravy

Pre-Christmas food

Potato smilies

Scrambled eggs

Gnocchi with chestnuts and spicy sausage

Pheasant with celeriac, cabbage, green beans and bacon

Stir fry

Mixed veg, mushroom and noodle stir fry

Quiet night in

A spicy hot pizza

Curry

Poppadums

With pickles

Anniversary lunch

Goose fat fried potatoes

Steak in a peppercorn sauce with spinach

Breakfast out

At the breakfast club in St Albans. Freshly squeezed apple juice to start

Full cooked breakfast to follow - scrambled eggs, fresh rosti, bacon, sausage, black pudding, tomato

Christmas dinner again

Third Christmas dinner of the week was at a restaurant in Soho, and a little more traditional, although no less tasty. Started with beetroot cured salmon

Followed by roast turkey with the trimmings

Finished with apple crumble

Team Christmas lunch

Out to the Larder in Clerkenwell. Started with belly pork, black pudding and apple

Followed by a perfect duck confit with puy lentils, sprout puree and veg

Finished with a Christmas pudding parfait

Dinner out

Dinner at Gallipoli again on Upper Street in London. A really good plate of Meze to start

Warming supper

A new recipe. An all in one pot garlic, potato and chicken dish. Really really good - flavoured with a little amontillado sherry

Followed by a plum crumble

Toad in the hole

Toad in the hole

With carrots, leeks and a good onion gravy

Pannacotta with a laborious, but worthwhile, mango coulis

It looks a lot better turned out. but is quite an effort, so I tend not to

Finished with fresh mint tea

Dinner in Edinburgh

Dinner at Creelers in Edinburgh. Started with a faultless fishcake on a celeriac and herb salad

Followed by an excellent Dover sole

Very good food indeed - wholeheartedly recommended

Leon

Garlic chicken wraps at Leon in Carnaby Street

I hadn't been to Leon before, and liked it lots - a great concept, well executed