Chef’s Diary

Fridays are always a pleasure unpacking my delivery from Riverfor

May 2023

Inviting someone into your gathering, celebration or party to cook

May 2023

Chocolate, maple syrup and oat tart with rhubarb, orange and cinn

May 2023

Vegetarian / vegan / gluten-free 3 course meal being prepared

May 2023

I cooked in Swaledale on Saturday for a hen party of 12 ladies

May 2023

Another 5 star rating and lovely review from a meal I cooked

May 2023

Ready to head off up through the Yorkshire Dales

May 2023

Here’s where I cooked last night at Kilnsey Park

May 2023

Making organic pork, sage and apple meatballs

May 2023

Collecting freshly baked bread from The Artisan Bakers

May 2023

Gathering wild garlic leaves by the waterfall

May 2023

Getting some organic rhubarb ready to bake with orange and cinnamon

May 2023

Spring greens, finely shredded

May 2023

Organic, aromatic Natyra apples

Apr 2023

#thecookinthegarden update

Apr 2023

Griddled slices of organic halloumi

Apr 2023

Portobello field mushrooms being stuffed

Apr 2023

First wild garlic flower of spring

Apr 2023

Tonight I gave a talk about The Cook in the North

Apr 2023

Giving a talk to Craven Speakers Club

Apr 2023

5 star rating and review from the weekend

Apr 2023

Pork belly bite drizzled with maple syrup

Apr 2023

Ready to cook a tapas feast for a hen party

Apr 2023

Tapas in Lancashire: sliced organic tomatoes

Apr 2023

Roasted whole sea bass

Apr 2023

Love these graduated evening skies

Apr 2023

King prawn, pancetta, mushroom and baby spinach pasta

Apr 2023

The coming week’s weather forecast is looking great

Apr 2023

Grabbed a few seconds today to snap a photo of this

Apr 2023

#thecookinthegarden update

Apr 2023

Cooked on an Aga tonight

Apr 2023

Super tasty Pennine spring lamb shanks

Apr 2023

Family holiday in a Scottish forest

Apr 2023

Melt-in-the-mouth peaches and cream

Mar 2023

#privatechef #fivestarreview

Mar 2023

Whoop whoop – first rhubarb of the year!

Mar 2023

“Potatoes are just potatoes, right?”

Mar 2023

My birthday present this year was a greenhouse

Mar 2023

Warm pears poached in a cinnamon toffee sauce

Mar 2023

Mini individual gluten- and dairy-free apple crumbles

Mar 2023

A gleaming kitchen after cooking

Mar 2023

Oughtershaw Hall

Mar 2023

Look what my daughter made for my birthday!

Mar 2023

Chocolate, almond and marmalade tart

Feb 2023

Home kitchen experimentation time

Feb 2023

Broad beans, fresh from their pods

Feb 2023

10 breaded chicken goujons sizzling in a pan

Feb 2023

Half term holiday family tea

Feb 2023

Ribblehead Viaduct at the very top of Ribblesdale

Feb 2023

Being the cleaning up fairy is all part of the service

Feb 2023

Lime and coriander chicken strips

Feb 2023

Lamb shanks from a local farm

Feb 2023

My daughter created this dairy-free banana split

Feb 2023

Baking with Mrs Cook in the North

Feb 2023

Hunter’s Chicken – melted cheese and barbecue sauce

Feb 2023

This is ‘Hen of the Woods’ from our local organic greengrocers

Feb 2023

Seasoned potato wedges

Jan 2023

Chatting with my local butcher Nathan today about lamb

Jan 2023

Goose fat

Jan 2023

Freshly baked Yorkshire Pudding

Jan 2023