Oriental dinner

Steaming pak choi

Salmon fillets

Making a sauce - frying garlic, ginger, chilli in sesame oil

Salmon was seared in a hot pan, and served with the pak choi, sauce and thinly chopped spring onions

Packed lunch

Wholewheat penne with mozzarella, tomatoes, basil and olive oil

Pasta alla puttanesca

Wholewheat penne with olive oil, tomatoes, anchovies, capers, chilli and garlic

Sunday lunch

Roasted butterflied leg of lamb

With roast potatoes, carrots and courgettes

Followed by apple, blueberry and blackberry crumble

Fish and chips

Cod and chips

Dinner in London

Dinner out in Andrew Edmunds. Started with the always reliable dressed crab

Followed by roast pheasant with bread sauce and vegetables

MIdweek dinner

Broccoli and cauliflower cheese

Game

Pheasant with polenta, green beans and a madeira sauce

Thai Sunday

Thai green curry

Saturday supper

Started with a salad of cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, red onion and basil

Followed by ossobucco (veal shin) with saffron risotto

And finished with brioche pain perdu and a blackcurrent and blueberry compote

Lunch at Carluccios

Affogato for dessert - thick hot chocolate with Italian vanilla ice cream

Healthy supper

Mackerel with salad, new potatoes and horseradish

Risotto alla Milanese

Making the risotto with saffron and chicken stock from yesterday

Adding butter and beating

Served

Roast chicken four ways

A nice free range Label Anglais chicken

Roasted with lemon and garlic

Served with green beans, new potatoes and a good gravy

Ready to be made into stock

Friday evening in

Haddock and hake fishcake with spinach

Followed by a Gu chocolate souffle

Easy supper

Oriental salmon parcels with tenderstem broccoli

Roast lamb

A quickly roasted butterflied leg of lamb, with wilted spinach and a mint sauce

New Year's Day breakfast

Blueberry and raspberry trifle