yummy food!

Get this chicken tikka masala cooking in the morning and have dinner waiting for you when you get in – it's perfect for a cold winter evening.

I’m almost embarrassed at how easy this is but, as you will find out, simple though it is to make, its flavour is deep, complex and utterly compelling.

Fill your kitchen with the smell of Christmas with this slow cooked gammon. The cola adds a sweet treacly flavour to balance the saltiness of the ham.

A roast chicken always is celebratory. The vibrantly coloured and intensely flavoured vegetables that are cooked alongside here seem only to underline this, offering their own brightness and brio, sunny in taste as well as mood.

An easy vegetarian slow cooker recipe, packed with summer flavours - ideal if you're busy, simply put it on in the morning and it'll be ready come supper time

You’ll never tire of cooking Simon Hopkinson’s easy cheesy biscuit recipe: perfect for weekend baking.

Zabaglione is an Italian custard, served here in layers with poached peaches and crushed amaretti biscuits. Delizioso!

These lamb parcels deliver a huge injection of flavour in the form of fiery chillies and smoked paprika.

An orzotto is like a risotto but instead of being made with rice it’s made with barley.

Update: Since this recipe, I have been experimenting to create a much lighter zebra cake and equally delicious. And I think I have figured out the recipe. Please check it out here, Zebra Cake 2.0 Ah, don't you just love the name? I do. I am easily amused as you can tell :) This zebra cake with its distinctive stripy pattern is nothing new actually. I remember my mom baking plenty of this cake when I was a kid. And now, I am very pleased that I can bake it myself and share this cake with her…