Thai Saturday

A Thai green fish curry with cod and crabmeat, served with steamed rice

Paella

A chorizo, spinach and pork fillet paella

Friday lunch

A quick round of pancakes for the three of us

Roast monkfish

Crushed new potatoes, sizzling in olive oil and butter

Monkfish tail, wrapped in parma ham and roasted

Served with fresh samphire

Lazy Tapas

Premade supermarket tapas - white beans and manchego cheese; meatballs in spicy chipotle sauce

Spring lamb

Rack of lamb served with rosemary-roasted potatoes and broccoli

Barbecue season

Breaking out the improvised barbecue for the first outside cooking of the summer

Sausages with homemade potato wedges

Served with a tomato salad and a mustard mayonnaise

Roast pork

A slow roasted shoulder of pork, cooked for 6 hours until it could be carved with a spoon

Spring lamb

Lamb chops for a summer evening supper

Grilled with thyme and garlic

Served with new potatoes, roasted peppers and salsa verde

Lunch in the sun

Coq au vin from the freezer for lunch

Served with some beautiful buttered papardelle

Friday dinner with friends

After the terrine, main course was a grilled boneless leg of lamb, served with dauphinoise potatoes, grilled red peppers, a tomato and shallot salad, and a salsa verde

Finished the meal with cheese

Game terrine

Venison, rabbit, duck, bacon, chicken liver and sausagemeat, ready for a game terrine

Whizzing up the 'forcemeat' with sausagemeat, herbs, brandy, red wine and chicken livers

Dicing the game, before building up the terrine

Lining a cast iron terrine with streaky bacon, before layering the forcemeat and game

Served with homemade chutney, gherkins and salad

KaiWeCare dinner

Dinner out in London at the KaiWeCare pop-up, organised by Mat Follas. A spectacular menu with 9 courses and 21 chefs, including 4 Masterchef winners and numerous Michelin starred chefs

The 'Pre-Starter' was a tasting of beetroot textures with elderflower curd

The starter was for me the best dish - a rare breed scotch egg, warm tartare sauce, pea shoots and an English quail, summer truffle and buttered kohlrabi pie

The intermediate course was saffron-poached tiger prawns with piquillo pepper salsa, sherry reduction and olive oil foam

The main course tasted much better than it photographed! Slow cooked New Zealand lamb, broccoli puree, smoked garlic puree and Olde Yorke cheese with akmonds and wild garlic jus

A fascinating pre-dessert - carrot juice 'toast' (above) to dip in an eggshell filled with a coconut jelly 'white' and a carrot juice 'yolk'

To finish a dark chocolate delice with lavender ice cream and a burnt orange syrup

All this was followed by cheese and petit fours

A truly memorable night - great food, and in all over £60k raised for the Christchurch earthquke work

Mothering Sunday

Lunch out at The Pheasant in Brill, in Oxfordshire, for Mother's day

A good piece of slow cooked pork belly with colcannon and green veg

Lunch with friends

Lunch with friends - a pair of delicious summer pastries - the first with sausage and parsnip, and the second with butternut squash, halloumi and black olives

The first outside lunch of the year

Leek risotto

A homegrown leek and tarragon risotto

Made with fresh stock from the weekend's chicken