My ‘best’ pizza dough – with a garlic bread recipe

My ‘best’ pizza dough recipe – makes truly fantastic pizza bases or garlic breads, plus a recipe for two garlic bread toppings

Pikelets with balsamic strawberries

Pikelets (also called drop scones or American pancakes) with balsamic strawberries – a real treat for Pancake Day

Flavoured salts – part two

Four incredible salt mixes: Italian with dried tomato puree, French, Umami with dried @marmite (yes really!) and a pretty and unusual English Summer Sweet – all vegetarian. Part 2 of my salt mixes posts

Strawberry yogurt cake with olive oil

Strawberry deliciouness in a dessert cake which is enriched with yogurt and heart-healthy olive oil. A perfect Valentine’s bake ❤️🍓

Flavoured salts – part one

[updated] It’s all the food fashion at the moment it seems to have a pot of two of flavoured sea salt, with salt companies clambering over each other to bring them out. Take a look past the hype and you’ll see that salt mixes are exceptionally useful in the kitchen and can even be used

Lean pasta sauce – Salsa magro

Salsa magro, or lean sauce. A delicious, unusual tomato based sauce – adapted for modern kitchens from a late 1800s recipe

Pesto and roasted butternut squash dip

Tasty vegetarian pesto and butternut squash roasted dip, that’s easy to make

Blueberry and thyme muffins

Try these delicious blueberry and thyme muffins, the recipe is less sweet than usual, with less sugar and some honey and yogurt #InkSugarSpice

Summer season baked nectarine cheesecake with a biscuit and pink peppercorn base

Summer season nectarine baked cheesecake with a biscuit and pink peppercorn base