Surprisingly, this jam is actually very straight forward. Don’t be put off by my ineptitude, just remember to make sure that your fruit takes up no more than half of your pan, and that your pan does actually fit on one of your hob plates. It will be very difficult to get it up to [...]

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This cake is a hot sponge (the milk and butter are heated) and is quite delicious served as a warm pudding. It can easily be adapted to any ingredients you have on hand, so feel free to use whatever fruit / nut combinations you would like.Mix:
2 large free range eggs
1 1/4 cups of vanilla sugar
1 [...]

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This is a nice variation on roast potatoes, not as much oil is used and they take less time to prepare
Scrub your potatoes, but leave the skin on
Dry them and chop them in half length ways
lay the flat half down and chop length ways again, until you have 4 or 5 fat ‘chips’ from each [...]

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Well basically – roast some carrots with whole cloves of garlic, some fresh thyme and some spoonfuls of honey.
Oh – wash the carrots first and chop so the pieces are roughly the same size.
Season with freshly crushed black pepper and maldon sea salt
Add some butter to forma glaze with the honey.
Put into the oven with [...]

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